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The up-Island school committee voted 4-1 to certify the fiscal year 2024 budget after a public hearing on Thursday evening, just in time for the holiday season. Committee member Skipper Manter was the sole dissenting vote.  Committee member Jim Newman, who was initially absent from the meeting, was called in to virtually participate and vote […]

The Up-Island school committee will take one more try at reducing the fiscal year 2024 budget increase before the budget public hearing on Thursday, Dec. 22.  Before beginning the Monday evening meeting, committee chair Alex Salop asked for a moment of silence in honor of Riley Ignacio-Cameron, the 20-year-old Maine Maritime Academy cadet from Aquinnah […]

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) committee will be asking the Island towns for $2 million for a Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) feasibility study article on the town meeting warrants, which will take place in the spring.  Before Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools business administrator Mark Friedman shared the numbers, he clarified that this […]

The up-Island school committee will need to consider whether to borrow more funds from the towns for the Chilmark School heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system project.  Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools business administrator Mark Friedman shared with the committee during the Monday evening meeting that work is ongoing to prepare a bid for the […]

Islanders gathered at the old Aquinnah town hall for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) public hearing regarding the Revolution Wind draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on Tuesday evening.  According to the Revolution Wind website, this project will provide “Connecticut and Rhode Island residents 100 percent renewable energy to help conserve the New England […]

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee at their Monday meeting approved a request by business administrator Mark Friedman to spend approximately $5,460 from the contingency budget line to cover prior and future invoices related to environmental testing.  “Last year the committee appropriated $66,200 for the special permitting process for the track project as it […]

The environmentally friendly school building task force presented to the Up-Island Regional School Committee its recommendations for retrofitting West Tisbury School during a Monday evening hybrid meeting that will cost an estimated $26 million to $37 million, depending on which option is picked. Task force member Doug Ruskin said the school’s retrofitting will help meet […]

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) committee unanimously voted to submit an amended draft regional agreement for the high school district to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) during a Thursday evening meeting.  Committee chair Robert Lionette said the agreement was sent before to DESE for review, which came back to […]

Updated 4:30 pm The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) committee swapped lawyers for its appeal of the Oak Bluffs planning board decision to deny a special permit for a track and synthetic turf field project.  At an earlier MVRHS committee meeting, officials approved the hiring of land use attorney Mark Bobrowksi, and agreed to […]

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee has tentatively scheduled an executive session, meeting with legal counsel to discuss appealing the decision of the Oak Bluffs planning board that stymied the school track and field project, due to concerns over synthetic turf. At Tuesday’s special committee meeting, three options were presented to members as viable […]