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Herb Custer passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on August 17, 2023. After 90 years, his enormous heart finally rested, and he was ready to go, with fair winds and following seas. Herbert Frederick Custer Jr. was born April 3,1933, in Hartford, Conn., into a loving family, the second child of Herbert Frederick Custer Sr. […]
With back-to-back votes Thursday night, resolution to a contract impasse between the Martha’s Vineyard Educators Association (MVEA) and All-Island School Committee was formalized. In its first vote, the all-Island school committee approved a new three-year teacher’s contract for Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools. No committee members voted against the new contract and only one member, Amy […]
To the Editor: Our responsibility as educators is to best support our Island’s children. I feel the MVRHS Track and Fields project was a proposal that would do just that. Yet, another responsibility as educators is to listen to our community, and as this long review process unfolded, it became apparent that this project caused […]
To the Editor: The Martha’s Vineyard Educators Association (MVEA) members are frustrated and disappointed by the district negotiations team’s decision to decline our efforts to continue to work together toward a fair wage settlement. Negotiations for the teacher contract, which includes school nurses, guidance counselors, school psychologists, teachers, and shared-service providers, have come to a […]
The Martha’s Vineyard boards of health reported six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Tuesday — four from the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and two from the TestMV site. Also Tuesday, the boards of health reported on data from the self-administered saliva COVID-19 tests from the Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools. In total, 538 tests have been conducted […]