The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee has vowed to continue its legal fight with the Oak Bluffs planning board, but paying for the court battle could be complicated.

The legal battle over a turf field at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will continue after the Oak Bluffs planning board voted Tuesday to appeal a recent state Land Court decision that allowed the field to bypass local zoning review. 

CHA Consulting has supervised numerous projects on the Island, including the Martha’s Vineyard Museum and the ongoing Tisbury School renovations in Vineyard Haven, the Chilmark School air-handling system replacement and the Tabernacle roof replacement in Oak Bluffs.

Yossi Monahan grew up on the Island and attended the Chilmark School and the high school before moving off the Island in his sophomore year.

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.