After an increase of less than 2.5 per cent for the current fiscal year, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School is now looking at a roughly 7.5 per cent hike in its operating costs for fiscal year 2025, which begins next July 1.

On Edgartown's North Water street, the Mad Martha's ice cream parlor is usually dormant in December when brisk winter weather dissuades Islanders from a frozen treat.

In a brief two-page judgment Wednesday, state Land Court judge Kevin Smith threw out the Oak Bluffs planning board’s denial of the project, saying it is protected under a provision of state law that allows educational uses to skirt some zoning restrictions. 

This year’s state-mandated student census, held annually at the start of October, showed a slight dip in enrollment across nearly all Island schools.

A legal opinion, written to clarify the legitimacy of anonymous cash donations to Island schools, instead sowed more dissension at this week’s meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee.

Members of the Special Olympics organization bestowed “national banner recognition” status this week on the regional high school's unified basketball program, started in 2019 by Ryan Kent.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School building project took a significant step forward Wednesday on the path toward a new or substantially-rebuilt school, as the building committee named its top choices for owner’s project manager.

Fifty years after being exchange students at the regional high school, Claudio Mac-Lean and Daniel Poletto came back to the Island this week to see their old host families and reminisce about helping start the high school's soccer team.