With many of the fall sports concluding last week, there was much space left for the remaining two teams to shine.

The debate over whether schools in West Tisbury and Chilmark should hire a school resource officer continued this week among members of the up-Island school committee.

This time life really is a cake walk. Join your friends and family in support of the fifth graders at West Tisbury School as they sponsor a cake walk at the Chilmark Community Center.

The Island Parents Advisory Council on Special Education meets at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard.

Sports travel for an Island school takes what is already a complicated endeavor — ensuring that hundreds of student athletes and their coaches get from Point A to Point B and back safely — and throws in a seven-mile wide obstacle in the form of the Vineyard Sound.

Rainy weather and a slippery, muddy field made little difference to the Vineyard boys’ soccer players Thursday night, as a hat trick by the team’s leading scorer and a strong showing from both veterans and newcomers powered the team to a decisive 4-1 postseason win over visiting Old Rochester.