Two Vineyard teams picked up decisive league wins at home on Tuesday afternoon, with field hockey earning a 4-2 victory over Eastern Athletic Conference rival Bishop Stang and boys’ soccer shutting out EAC opponent Somerset-Berkley 5-0.

“Bishop Stang is a tough team — it was a hard-fought win,” head coach Lisa Kinght said. Field hockey is now 3-1 on the season.

Why don’t more women play golf? According to the National Golf Foundation, the number of U.S. women playing golf declined from seven million in 2005 to 5.4 million in 2010 to 5.1 million in 2011. There are no figures from 2012 yet. According to a 2010 golf foundation survey, only 20 per cent of players in 2009 were women and girls from the age of six up, and they accounted for just 17 per cent of the rounds played. The foundation’s 2007 golf consumer profile reported that 60 per cent of women were embarrassed that they didn’t play better or know more about golf, and a majority were “intimidated by other players, by the staff or by the environment in general.”

Cape Air has discontinued off-season flights between Hyannis and the Island due to low demand, the Hyannis-based airline announced Monday.

The change is effective Oct. 22.

“The passenger numbers just aren’t there to sustain a business,” said Michelle Haynes, spokesperson for Cape Air. “For us to continue offering the service that the passengers were just simply not signing up to fly . . . didn’t make good business sense.

In light of the coverage of Oak Bluffs' commercial district, I believe attention needs to be paid to the Friends of Oak Bluffs. This grassroots organization has done outstanding work improving the appearance of the town and making it a hospitable destination.

We have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of good wishes on announcing our “retirement” from the Dragonfly Fine Arts Gallery as of Oct. 7. Many wonderful people have touched our lives here during the past five years: artists, clients, visitors, other gallery owners, friends and so many others.

Alvin Eisenman was truly a gentleman and a scholar. I was one of his students in the graphic design program at Yale; he and the distinguished group of leading professionals he gathered together to form the program’s faculty guided me and my fellow classmates into the world of design and opened ways of seeing, organizing and communicating that informed my 45-year career in graphic design — and continue to inspire and direct my outlook on the world.

What a summer this has been. I haven’t lived on the Island long enough to remember the old Vineyard, but surely it wasn’t like this.

Last Wednesday, Sept. 4, my husband and I were drifting seaward from the outer harbor in our disabled sailboat. We had to take down our sails and had no motor. The wind was blowing so hard that our cries for help could not be heard by two passing boats.

The Yard expands its reach in the community with special performances aimed to raise awareness of food insecurity and hunger on the Island and beyond. This weekend the Yard in Chilmark presents and puppet theatre with a cause. Who’s Hungry? employs the talents of Dan Froot and Dan Hurlin as they weave together dance, music, puppetry and text sharing testimonies of five Americans facing food insecurity. According to the Yard’s press information, in Massachusetts the food insecurity rate has risen by more than 43 per cent since the start of the 2008 recession.

Renaissance House in Oak Bluffs will once again nurture the writer within as they host a series of writers’ salons this fall on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.

Tonight, Sept. 17, features Tom Dresser author of Women of Martha’s Vineyard, among other local historical books. Priscilla Douglas, a life coach and author of Getting There and Staying There, brings her skills to the salon on Oct. 1.

The programs are free and open to all.

Renaissance House is located at 31 Pennacook avenue in Oak Bluffs. Call 917-747-0367 or visit renaissance-house-harlem.com.