Edgartown police chief Antone Bettencourt said the mass casualty drill will last about three hours and will likely close part of Edgartown-West Tisbury Road and Cooke street.
The Edgartown School has announced its honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2012-2013 academic year.
Eighth grade high honors: Abigail Lively and Lucy Ulyatt.
Eighth grade honors: Lauryn Bond, Kyle Boyd, Elizabeth Dourian, Gabriella Carlos, Cana Courtney, Lucy Enos, Sarah Felix, Ennis Foster, Daniel Gaines, Kylie Hatt, Kylie Hathaway, Anna Keenan, Mary Morano, Jordan Tate Da Silva, Joshua Tate Da Silva and Ava Thors.
Robin Forte, Island Grown Schools’ Harvest of the Month guest chef for the Edgartown School, moved through the lunch room with a tray of asparagus roll-ups for students to try. As she moved from table to table she saw a pattern emerging, one that has become familiar through the course of this first year of our Harvest of the Month program. The children at first would politely say “No, thank you” to the taste test. Then one student would venture, “I’ll try it,” and then each person in turn around the table would say the same thing.
The classroom is up the open staircase to the right in room 220 at the Edgartown School. Flags of world nations hang from the ceiling. There is a quote on the door that reads, “No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship.” This is the English Language Learning room, although it is not the only place in the school where English language learning takes place.
The Eagles have landed. In closely-matched, hard-fought games at the middle school basketball championships Tuesday night, the Edgartown School girls’ and boys’ teams both took home trophies.
Parents and teachers packed themselves into the community room at
the Edgartown School on Wednesday night to hear which of the three
finalist candidates for the principal position the superintendent and
school committee had chosen - but then learned that none of the
three had been chosen.
Much has changed between the time 54-year-old John W. Stevens graduated from the Edgartown School and yesterday, when he welcomed the students and parents on opening day and introduced himself as their new school principal.
But for the veteran educator, who comes from running large schools in Florida, the scene was familiar enough.
