The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted 10-6 to approve the regional high school athletic field project at a dramatic meeting Thursday night, capping a long-running and often acrimonious debate over synthetic turf fields.
The Martha’s Vineyard regional high school district committee voted Monday to apply for a sixth time to the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) grant program.
Alone and together, the regional high school class of 2021 persevered. Graduation is Sunday at the school baseball diamond, with a public parade set for Saturday morning along State Beach.
Plans to convert the regional high school's main athletic field to artificial turf, narrowly approved by the Martha's Vineyard Commission last month, are under scrutiny by the Oak Bluffs planning board.
When Vineyard students go back to school Wednesday amid the continuing pandemic, administrators say the school day will look more like it did prior to March 2020.
The Island Wide Youth Collaborative, Youth Task Force and NAMI of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard sponsored a free screening of The Social Dilemma and hosted a discussion after the film.
