Broadcast from Oak Bluffs
Listen to the voters in Oak Bluffs; their collective voice is loud and clear. At the annual town election in April they swept two longtime incumbent selectmen out of office and voted in two newcomers. At a special town election last week they broadcast a forceful message about their desire to curb spending and balance the town budget in real time, rejecting by a wide margin two questions that would have allowed the town to exceed the state law that caps annual property tax increases at two and a half per cent.
Handing Off for Life
There will be burgers, pancakes and silly stunts — people wearing crazy hats, walking backwards, eating s’mores and collecting playing cards around the track of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, hoping for a winning hand by lap five. It is the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, and the poker run lap is apt, for every day involves high stakes when you find yourself in the casino of cancer.
The other day, on a wet and chilly morning, I suggested to my daughter Pickle, recently turned three, that she wear a coat for going outside. Giving my children suggestions about what clothes to wear has been an ongoing battle for me ever since I became a parent. That at age eight I chose to wear the same green T-shirt every day for an entire summer mocks me from my past.
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal Stephen Nixon has announced the honor roll for the third quarter of the 2010-2011 academic year.
Grade 12 high honors go to: Celeste Ewing, Michaella Gaines, Sarah Johnson, Collette Jordan, Haley Krauss, Jill McHugh, Amelia Pennington and Kira Shipway.
Grade 11 high honors go to: Clara Corjulo, Riley Donegan, Christine Janak, Celia Mercier, William Stewart, Liam Wallace and Kevin Walsh.
What follows is the list of awards given to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students at the annual Honors Night ceremony, held last night at the high school performing arts center. Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Departmental Awards: Faculty
Art: excellence in drawing and painting: Mary-Louise Howell and Kira Shipway; excellence in photography and graphics: Courtney Minnehan; excellence in 3D design and architecture: Frederick Hehre; excellence in crafts and sculpture: Colby Gouldrup.
As the Family Planning clinic here faces the threat of possible closure due to severe state budget cuts, the Vineyard community turned out in large numbers for the annual Friends of Family Planning Art Show this past weekend.
Stock Market Winners
Two Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students won first place in a stock market competition involving more than 1,000 teams competing statewide, the Boston Globe and Security Industry and Financial Markets Associates (SIFMA) Stock Market Game.
Taylor Poggi won first overall, with a total return of 37.98 per cent in the regular account holdings.
Taylor and Alayna Hutchinon scored first and second in the Diversified Account holdings.
Open enrollment for the Commonwealth Care program began on Wednesday and will continue through June 24. It is the only time during the year when members may change health plans for any reason.
“We will give members all the information and support they need to choose a health plan that best meets their needs,” said the executive director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, Glen Shor. “Members should carefully review the material we’ve sent them to see how changes in premiums and provider networks may affect them.”
The Trustees of Reservations has received additional funding from the Edey Foundation to support ongoing efforts to document native bees and other pollinators on Martha’s Vineyard this year.
An inventory last year covered a wide range of habitats and generated the first-ever, season-long “snapshot” of Vineyard pollinators, with nearly 10,000 specimens of bees collected and more than 130 species (and counting) of bees identified, including species not seen in the region for almost four decades.
Good morning to all our readers. The Gazette’s twice-a-week publication cycle will begin on Tuesday, June 7, and continue throughout the summer. See you Tuesday!
