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The up-Island regional district school committee voted Monday night to certify a $12.6 million budget for the coming fiscal year, roughly a three per cent increase over last year.
A total of 24 students from Martha’s Vineyard earned recognition for their work in this year’s Boston Globe Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, an annual statewide competition.
The Steamship Authority announced Tuesday that its northernmost Woods Hole berth, slip number three, will be closed to ferries from Jan. 29 until Feb. 21, resulting in slight changes to the ferry schedule.
Applications to represent the Vineyard on the Steamship Authority board of governors are multiplying. Four more Islanders sent letters of interest this week to the Dukes County Commission.
Edgartown selectmen will hold a public hearing next week on the VTA’s planned charging station project at the Church Street bus terminal.
Minor motor vehicle accidents related to drunken driving and deer occupied West Tisbury police over the weekend. Three people were transported to the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following a two-car collision in West Tisbury Friday afternoon.