Jacqueline Morby taught her daughter Michelle many things. Some were her secrets to life: always dance, read poetry often, find a partner who is curious and loves adventure.

At the regional high school, Penny Haddad dove headfirst into into extracurriculars: she played soccer for three years and hockey for one, she wrote for the student newspaper and volunteered with Interact Club for causes across the Island. 

Over the past four years, co-valedictorian Katherine Becker has found a place for herself in music, languages and academics at the high school.

This year's graduating class of seniors at the regional high school was dedicated to their studies and knew how to have fun.

Next year, the Chilmark School will replace its multi-grade classrooms with single-grade classrooms, ending a long-standing tradition in the K-5 school’s educational model. 

The girls tennis team faces 8th seeded Wilmington in the quarterfinals in a home match on Friday, June 5, beginning at 3 p.m. 

The Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School graduates 15 seniors this year, the second largest class in school history. They are a close-knit group — like a family, or a “loud pack of cousins,” said senior Winter Muric.

The Chilmark select board voted unanimously on Friday to offer Reade Milne, the current Edgartown building inspector, the building inspector position left open by outgoing inspector Adam Petkus.

The girls and boys tennis teams, and the baseball team all won their first round playoff games this week. Girls tennis defeated Auburn High School on Thursday, boys tennis defeated Fairhaven on Friday, and the baseball team defeated Medfield on Friday.

Raising cattle doesn’t have to be bad for the Earth, Ridge Shinn, the director of the Northeast Grassfed Beef Initiative, said at a panel with Island livestock farmers last week. Instead, cattle could help restore soils and mitigate global warming.