The future of Tisbury’s historic public elementary school will be in the hands of town voters this weekend when they convene a special town meeting to take up a $55 million overhaul of the crumbling old brick school.
Tisbury School
June 22, 2021
Maia Coleman
Tisbury voters finally said yes to a new school at their annual town election Tuesday, approving a $55 million renovation plan by a landslide and capping years of debate and anguish.
July 8, 2021
Kate Dario
If you want to find John Custer this summer, head to the ocean.
2023
January 17, 2023
The Tisbury select board welcomed a new police officer, hired its former building commissioner as a part-time zoning inspector and approved a nearly $900,000 insurance bill for the town school last week.
2022
December 12, 2022
A symbolic ground-breaking at the Tisbury School Saturday morning marked a new chapter for the town school, which graduated its first class of eighth-graders more than 90 years ago.
November 10, 2022
Bucking a statewide trend, the Vineyard public school system continues to grow, with 2,253 students enrolled across the Island on Oct. 1 compared to 2,191 a year earlier.
November 8, 2022
Thanksgiving break will start two days early at the Tisbury School, where an $82 million renovation and addition project is about to ramp up.
October 13, 2022
Eversource's redeployment of workers to Florida to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian could delay getting high-voltage electrical service installed into Tisbury School's modular classrooms.
September 20, 2022
Casting paper ballots marked YES or NO, Tisbury voters overwhelmingly approved 373 to 112 nearly $26 million in new funding for the proposed school renovations.
