A Saturday morning community drop-in meditation program begins this Saturday, Sept. 21, at the YMCA. Additional sessions are on Nov. 16 and Dec. 14, each one running from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. This classes are all free and are run by Dr. Elliott Dacher. The first class is entitled Calm Inside, Complex Outside.

Cycle Martha’s Vineyard invites you to rediscover the beauty that abounds on the Vineyard as you take to your bicycle on Sunday, Oct. 6. The 50K or 100K routes take cyclists along the Atlantic Ocean, Nantucket Sound, rolling farmland and state forests. Registration fees are $100 for new riders or $90 for past participants as they ride for a cause — proceeds benefit the charities of the event’s sponsor, the Rotary Club of Martha’s Vineyard.

The fee includes a T-shirt, aid stations and a post-ride barbecue.

The Vineyarders were on the wrong end of an offensive shootout during Saturday’s home game against the Brighton Bengals, falling 60-41. The Vineyard jumped on the board first after senior back Joe Turney rushed for a five-yard touchdown, but Brighton answered with a score of its own on a 60 yard pass.

Seconds after the bell was rung at 8 a.m. Sunday announcing the start of the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, two fish were carried through the door, lifted onto the scale and recorded on the leader board in the Edgartown harbor weigh-in shack.

The shack at the end of Main street in Edgartown lies dormant most of the year. During summer months it is used by the Edgartown Junior Yacht Club. During the winter, it sits empty, a little outpost on the harbor. And for five weeks in the fall, the shack comes alive.

After a long preseason, high school sports began in earnest last week. This weekend football and boys’ soccer play at home, with football taking on Brighton at 1 p.m. on Saturday, and boys’ soccer playing a home rematch against Nauset Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Football

Playing before a large home crowd at the Daniel McCarthy Field, the Vineyarders took a 21-0 loss to visiting Bedford during last Saturday’s season opener.