Anything can happen in the movies, and the same could be said for a movie store — particularly if that store is Island Entertainment.

Longtime manager Jamie Alley’s DVD of choice for the last hour of business each night is typically an old Saturday Night Live episode.

“It’s a good way to fill the last hour, and it makes me laugh before I go home,” he said in an interview on Tuesday.

Islanders lined up at the polls today to cast ballots in a presidential election that has riveted and divided the country. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Polling places are Aquinnah town offices, the Chilmark Community Center, the Edgartown town hall, the Oak Bluffs public library, the American Legion Hall in Vineyard Haven, and the West Tisbury public safety building.

When it comes to nutrition on Martha’s Vineyard, Islanders are well on their way to ideal conditions for providing healthy food to the year-round c

Head football coach Donald Herman picked up his 200th career win Friday night before a home crowd as the Vineyarders held on for their first Eastern Athletic Conference victory of the season, defeating Bishop Stang 22-18. The game was back and forth all night, and in the end the Vineyard team dug deep to make the win.

In their first post-season appearance in two years, the Vineyard field hockey squad fell 2-1 to Plymouth South in the preliminary round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association South Division 2 tournament.

Sophomore Sydney Davies scored the lone Vineyard goal three minutes into the game on a corner. But Plymouth South came out strong in the first half and was able to capitalize on Vineyard lapses in the second, scoring the go-ahead with less than two minutes left in the game.

If they were motorists, they’d surely be ticketed. Going over 45 miles per hour on the Vineyard is illegal.

But the dozen world-class athletes who competed in the second annual North American Speed Sailing Invitational attain their formidable speeds not on paved roads but on water. They raced on Sengekontacket Pond, Cape Pogue Bay and Katama Bay, depending on the wind conditions of each location. During the competition, which ended on Tuesday, the high-flying kites became familiar sights.