Community Groups Organize to Help the Vulnerable
Louisa Hufstader

With an Islandwide shutdown beginning to weigh on the Vineyard’s most vulnerable residents, volunteers are needed during the coronavirus emergency.

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Island Schools Close for Two Weeks
Bill Eville

Due to the threat of the coronavirus, all Vineyard schools will close for two weeks, beginning Monday.

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Inspiring Students With Borders to Bridges Course
Louisa Hufstader

With immigration a fact of life for Island children, retired Island teacher Lynn Ditchfield has developed the Borders to Bridges curriculum to teach the subject in the classroom as well.

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Plastic Free Award

Students from the West Tisbury School won a silver award for their submission to the 2019 Marine Debris Creative Advocacy Competition, sponsored by Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs.

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Gay Head School Out for Summer and for Good
Edith Blake
High on a windy promontory at the end of the Island stands the Gay Head School. It is a one-room school with all the traditional trimmings, from flag to red paint, that one-room schools are supposed to have. Outside there is a playground and a pond, and inside there are actually two rooms, but one is used as a kitchen-storeroom-catch-all sort of place and the other is a classroom.
 
For the past eleven years, Mrs. James Manning has been the teacher at the school, teaching kindergarten through the fourth grade to a varying number of children.
 
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Vision and Laborious Hours Are Real Materials of Splendid New School, the Island’s Pride
Colbert Smith
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.
 
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Swedish Fish and Quartet San Francisco; a Strings Supergroup
Landry Harlan

Quartet San Francisco has been visiting Island schools this week to perform and play music with students, in a program sponsored by the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society.

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Vineyard Students Head Back to School Tuesday
Holly Pretsky

More than 2,350 Island children will head back to school Tuesday as Island public schools reopen for the year.

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Island Students Close the Book on School Year
Holly Pretsky

Friday was the last day of classes for most Vineyard students, a time to celebrate the arrival of summer.

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Field Fund Wins Award, Carries on Work at Elementary Schools
Holly Pretsky

The Field Fund has begun work at every elementary school on the Vineyard to improve and maintain nontoxic grass fields. This week the fund was honored with an award at the state house.

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