The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee this week approved an updated student handbook that strictly limits the use of personal devices during school hours.
Megan Farrell, who retired from Oak Bluffs at the beginning of the summer, has accepted a one-year position as assistant superintendent of the Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools system.
A split Martha’s Vineyard Commission has ruled out holding a public hearing on an unauthorized building change at El Barco, Patrick Lyons’s new outdoor tacqueria in downtown Vineyard Haven.
At a public hearing, five residents of William Norton Road spoke out against the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard’s application to build a 2,490-square foot repair workshop and a 5,000-square-foot outdoor boat storage pad at 49 Holmes Hole Road.
The Vineyard’s long-running food waste program is set to end Sept. 1, when it loses its pilot composting location at the Island Grown Initiative farm in Vineyard Haven.
State contractors entered the state forest this week and cleared three homeless encampments, razing tents and leaving several Islanders without their possessions.
Former Oak Bluffs police officer and Rhode Island state police detective Jared Andrews is joining the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School staff as director of the student affairs office, overseeing the school’s counseling department.
The Vineyard’s only homelessness prevention nonprofit is under agreement to buy 112 Dukes County avenue, where — if local and regional authorities approve — it plans to build a permanent winter shelter for up to 25 guests.
Martha’s Vineyard Boys and Girls Club executive director Dhakir Warren is headed back to his former workplace, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, where he previously led the guidance and counseling staff before taking the club job in 2021.