The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee voted 8-1 Monday to approve a request from students to make the mako shark the new school mascot.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee members have failed to agree on a student group’s request to buy, with its own funds, a shark costume for a mascot at school sports events.

School bus drivers in the Martha’s Vineyard public school system have been paid without the required school committee authorization for nearly a year, leading the high school committee to commission an independent audit of the transportation department’s internal processes.

Friends, faculty and family joined the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s graduating seniors Sunday at the Tabernacle to celebrate the class of 2026, a group of 173 students that prioritized community, excelled in academics and had fun the entire way. 

At the regional high school, Penny Haddad dove headfirst into into extracurriculars: she played soccer for three years and hockey for one, she wrote for the student newspaper and volunteered with Interact Club for causes across the Island. 

Over the past four years, co-valedictorian Katherine Becker has found a place for herself in music, languages and academics at the high school.

This year's graduating class of seniors at the regional high school was dedicated to their studies and knew how to have fun.

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. 

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.