School officials gave the public a chance to see inside the new Tisbury School this weekend during a ribbon cutting ceremony for the $81 million renovation.
Yanked like a puppet from 20 feet above Sengekontacket Pond, Nevin Sayre nearly lost his life when he hit the water in a kite-surfing accident earlier this month.
About 730 students are enrolled at the high school, representing a wide variety of backgrounds and educational needs. With the student population expected to rise in the coming years, school leaders are pondering replacing the aging building.
An Edgartown subdivision plan that aims to tackle the Island’s middle-income housing shortage is headed for deliberations by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission following the conclusion of a public hearing Thursday.
The committee on hunger is dissolving its organization after nearly 50 years, with Island Grown Initiative taking over the committee’s Serving Hands and Family to Family food distribution programs.
Projected costs for a new high school range from $223 to $427 million, leading some Island officials to question if the project should be downsized in order to make it past the voters.
The Steamship Authority has dropped a potential $3.50 to $5 rate increase for excursion fares from the Vineyard and cut a proposed passenger rate hike from $1 to 50 cents, according to a revised draft of the preliminary 2025 operating budget.
The Island community turned out Monday for a memorial gathering in memory of Island naturalist Gus Ben David, the original director of Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, who died July 4 at 81.
