Rising enrollment at the newly-renovated Tisbury School is helping to drive a 17 per cent increase in the school’s operating budget for fiscal year 2026, which begins July 1 of this year.
The school committee certified the nearly $10.8 million budget last week, clearing the way for the Tisbury select board and the financial and advisory committee to review the spending plan. The budget will have to be approved at town meeting.
The Martha’s Vineyard public schools system is updating its school safety policy to include a protocol for federal inquiries into the immigration status of students and their families.
The 5:30 a.m. freight departure from Vineyard Haven is back in business for the next couple of months, after regulatory complications pushed back planned dock work at the Steamship Authority terminal until this fall.
A four-person committee of Steamship Authority governing board and port council members will interview four executive search firms for the job of finding a new general manager to replace Robert Davis.
Island nonprofit leaders are remembering Sam Feldman, who died on Jan. 8 at 95, as a true mensch: a man of boundless good will and generosity, who never tired of finding ways to help others and bring people together.
Developer Xerxes Aghassipour has filed a lawsuit against four people, including a member of the Tisbury planning board and the board’s staff administrator, claiming they engaged in a conspiracy to discredit his reputation and violate his rights by abusing the legal process.
Acting Tisbury fire chief Patrick Rolston can now call the job his own, after the select board voted Friday afternoon to make the arrangement permanent.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee has unanimously certified a $29,560,540 school operating budget for fiscal year 2026, which begins this July 1.
The Tisbury building commissioner is looking for a 24 per cent increase in his department’s budget, with much of the proposed hike going to payroll including a new position for short-term rental inspections.
