The Island’s oldest and youngest high school football teams met, not for a match but for a meal last Friday night at the school cafeteria. Nineteen members of the 1960 team met the 2010 team before the big Saturday game with Nantucket. Add to that six members of the 1960 cheerleaders, who also shared stories with the current squad.

Oak Bluffs received its new $250,000 ambulance last Saturday, and the personnel involved with the ambulance service would like to share it with the Island community at a breakfast open house on Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon.

The free pancake breakfast is aimed at raising the public awareness about what EMTs and paramedics can do in an ambulance run.

Chief John Rose said the new ambulance serves the whole community, not just Oak Bluffs.

For many summer visitors, eating a lobster roll is paramount to a great vacation on the Vineyard, as important as taking a walk on the beach. Few know more about the making of a lobster roll than Lorraine Clark, Beatrice Green and Rev. Robert E. Hensley of Grace Episcopal church. The three revealed some secrets of their church’s lobster roll enterprise, at a talk earlier this month at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.

A three-man sail from Vineyard waters earlier this month ended in tragedy; a loss of a sailor’s life, a dismasting of a two-masted sailboat which was later abandoned, and a dramatic rescue of two in the high seas.

Captain Dennis White, 63, of the 41-foot ketch Emma Goldman, had left the Vineyard on Saturday, Nov. 6 with a crew of two: the captain’s longtime friend William (Willie) Thorns, 64, of Mashpee and his 25-year-old daughter, Amanda Thorns.

It is a weekly ritual among hundreds of Islanders. Sunday morning radio check for volunteer firemen is about as much a part of the weekend calendar as church, or a trip to the dump and the grocery store. Starting at around 9:30 every Sunday morning, firemen from around the Island drive to their local fire station, where they wait for the 10 a.m. calls from the county communications center.

For many it is a social event combined with volunteer work.

They haven’t played together in 50 years, but tonight the members of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s first football team will come together from as far away as Florida and as near as Oak Bluffs to attend a dinner at the high school before the Island Cup game tomorrow.

High school athletic director Mark McCarthy, whose late father was the coach of that team, has organized the event.