An dispute among Island towns over how the regional high school is funded came to a head this week as administrators sought to move forward on plans to renovate or replace the campus.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School class of 2019 will be remembered as a class that chose to go their own way, to embrace their individualism, their voices and their convictions.
School and community leaders have convened a working group to reconsider how Island towns share costs at the regional high school. A meeting last month saw little in the way of consensus.
The results have been positive for the spring sports teams as they finish their first season in the Cape and Islands League with most of the squads leading their divisions.
An estimated 200 people stood squinting in the brilliant, hot sun Sunday afternoon, and watched Gordon Kelvin White and Robert Eldridge White Jr. raise the United States flag slowly to the top of a tall aluminum flagpole set in front of the new Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Before that Rev. Thomas H. Lehman had offered a short prayer; and after that, Mrs. Wilfrid O. White merely spoke the words that were inscribed in the base of the flagpole she had given the school, and on which her grandsons had run up the flag.
