It’s been an October to remember for John Goodfellow, an Islander who has learned sports literally from the ground up. He’s been inducted this weekend into the Niagara Falls Old-Timers Hall of Fame, practicing his acceptance speech while flying home from Oklahoma, where he got to get a grip on his daughter’s brand-new twin girls.

When Islander Dennis Upton e-mailed about gigs with the improvisational troupe Comedy Sportz, Isle File profiled him as 20 or 30-something. Not so. Dennis, interrupted by Isle File as he did his bit to reforest the planet Wednesday morn, is a former mainland school teacher who retired not once, but twice.

The Business & Professional Women scored a real coup in arranging that Women’s Health seminar next Wednesday at the Holiday Inn.

This year’s October surprise arrived on foot and left in a beer case.

Suppose you’re a Grand Island merchant and not selling quite enough of your product to cover your costs. What now? Right, take an ad in the Record, but what’s your pitch?

Some years ago a young mainland woman had a frightful emotional brawl on her scholastic basketball team. It wasn’t about her, but it was all around her, and she was devastated. At work, her mom vented to Doug.

“Curtain Up” dominated the Mainland Friday night but Islanders were all over the playbills.

Isle File and Chris Wozniak did a play together two springs ago in Tonawanda. Doug had a role. Polly was his prompter. Chris designed the poster, the program and several other artistic aspects of the show.

Some signs that the end is near for Grand Island’s summer.