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A sweeping plan to renovate and add on to the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School gained voter approval Tuesday after unofficial tallies in the six Island towns showed overwhelming support for the $333.5 million project.
A new bus route will begin operations later this month to serve vacationers and Island residents living along Meeting House Way and Meshacket Road.
Next year, the Chilmark School will replace its multi-grade classrooms with single-grade classrooms, ending a long-standing tradition in the K-5 school’s educational model.
The Island’s mounting tick-borne illness epidemic was highlighted by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week, as he announced new federal initiatives to combat Lyme disease and alpha-gal syndrome.
Voters flocked to the polls Tuesday for the special district election to decide on if the Island should move forward with the $333.5 million plan to revamp the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Giving Back on the Real Estate Front
June 1, 2026
Over the last decade, Feiner Real Estate has given out $500,000 to 30 nonprofits on the Island, supporting efforts in housing, healthcare, conservation, education and food insecurity.
Island Housing Trust Leader to Retire
May 31, 2026
The CEO of Island Housing Trust has announced he will retire in 2027.
Ronald Rappaport Scholarships
May 29, 2026
he Martha’s Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation has chosen the first recipients of the recently established Ron Rappaport Scholar Fund.
Naomi Shihab Nye Reading
May 28, 2026
Naomi Shihab Nye returns to Featherstone for a poetry reading on June 3.
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From the June 8, 1928 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Forty years ago and more there was a hotel of considerable size and many cottages in the section of Lagoon Heights, Oak Bluffs, where now there are but few houses and many scrub pine trees.
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