The select board threw a monkey wrench into the latest effort to jump start a feasibility study for a new high school, declining to sign a joint letter to the Massachusetts School Building Authority.

The project at the capped landfill in Edgartown won the endorsement of the town select board, which voted to enter into contract negotiations with a Framingham renewable energy company.

Thousands of people logged onto the Steamship Authority website hours before dawn Tuesday, breaking records on the opening day of summer ferry reservations.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission will see its operating go up in the coming fiscal year, from $1.8 million to just over $2 million, an overall increase of 11 per cent from 2022.

This could be the year, regional high school administrators say, that the school is finally accepted into a state-funded building program to help pay for the cost of a new school.