The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School has joined Michelle Obama’s Chefs Move to Schools program, run through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Island caterers Jan Buhrman and Jamie Hamlin have partnered with the school lunch chef Leslie Floyd to create healthy, delicious meals that meet the school’s dietary guidelines and budgets. They will join an effort with school nurse Linda Leonard, who is working with staff to teach young people about nutrition and making balanced and healthy choices.

Youth Summit has Space

The 2011 Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development begins June 18 at the Captain Flanders Inn in Chilmark.

It continues through June 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is no charge for Vineyard youth to attend and rides are provided each day from all local schools; there are a few more spaces available for Vineyard youth ages 15 to 20 to attend. The summit is a program of the Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative.

Squeals had been echoing through the Katama Barn at the Farm Institute for 14 hours while three mamma pigs labored last week. Mariah, Carrie and Rhonda, the large sows who together produced 23 piglets, began farrowing Thursday afternoon and by Friday morning were not pleased with all the commotion.

“It’s okay, mamma, it’s okay,” said farm manager Julie Olson, cradling the tiniest newborn piglet from one of three litters. “Everybody’s talking.”

There were plenty of clams shelled out on Saturday afternoon at Nancy’s Snack Bar in Oak Bluffs, and all for a good cause. It was the fifth annual quahaug and oyster shucking contest, and this year the cause was the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard, which collected a lot of clams — $1,000 to be exact.

Edgartown Marine will shortly have new owners.

George and Sheryl Roth Rogers of Lexington and Vineyard Haven will take over the town-owned boat yard in the next few days, pending bank approval from the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank. The boat yard is at the end of Morse street on the Edgartown harbor.

Maurice Dore and Anthony (Tony) Chianase are selling the business, the price of which has not been disclosed. The Edgartown selectmen approved a long-term lease transfer for the new owners at a special selectmen’s meeting Friday afternoon.

With the school year drawing to a close, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee began a review of the annual school improvement plan and prepared for a year-end financial review.

Principal Steven Nixon presented the committee with a school plan that aims to quantify success through a data-driven point system and restates the school’s core values, beliefs and learning expectations.

Correction

A story in the June 7 Gazette about the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School graduation incorrectly named a scholarship awarded to senior Hannah Vanderlaske. It is the Lumina Darrell scholarship. The Gazette regrets the error.

Windemere Raises $17,600

For Recreational Programs

A 32-year-old Holyoke man was charged with drunk driving and other motor vehicle violations after the Ford F-350 pickup truck he was driving flipped over on Seaview avenue in Oak Bluffs on Saturday night, sending six people to the hospital.

It was practically a feeding frenzy at the regional high school this weekend when the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks defeated the Seacoast Mavericks in their season opener on Friday and again in a rain-soaked game on Saturday. Red Sox Hall of Famer Bob (The Steamer) Stanley threw out the first pitch on Friday night after a small ceremony honoring those who had been instrumental in welcoming the Sharks to the Island, including Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss and high school principal Stephen Nixon,