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Pay increases for top administrators at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School were approved this week, completing a round of raises for nonunion administrative staff in Island schools. The increases, which ranged from 3.5 to 6.5 per cent, were recommended by Vineyard schools superintendent James H. Weiss based on several factors including cost of living, performance and reaction to raises resulting from teacher contract negotiations last year.
Heavy winds can delay some outdoor ventures. But when the Chilmark planning board meets on Monday, they will hope for wind. On the agenda is a site visit to at least one of the two residential wind turbines which have gone up in town in the past two months.
Two longstanding Chilmark residents who own and rent out multiple moorings in town will be allowed to continue — for the time being, at least.
But Chilmark selectmen this week agreed to seek guidance from the state on the matter.
Earlier this winter, a sharply divided board of selectmen requested an opinion from their attorney as to whether the practice was legal.
Sitting outside Up-Island Cronig’s earlier this week, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s 2008 valedictorian Truman French appeared to wearing much of the earth he had shifted around a Chilmark home that day, during a 12-hour landscaping shift.
“I’m trying to get a couple years’ college paid for,” he explained. Along with the rest of his class, Truman finished his final classes less than a week ago.
Truman French , valedictorian of the class of 2008, is the son of Lew French of Edgartown and Patty Quast-French of Oak Bluffs. He will attend Harvard University in Cambridge in 2009.
Antonio Grillo , salutatorian of the class of 2008, is the son of Joseph and Kate Grillo of Vineyard Haven. He will attend Harvard University in Cambridge in the fall.
Jane Alexander , class essayist, is the daughter of Mark and Connie Alexander of Vineyard Haven. She will attend Boston College in Chestnut Hill in the fall.
Hello, Molly
Tom and Joyce Dresser of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a new granddaughter, Molly Rose Held, born on April 30 at Kaiser-Permanente Hospital in Culver City, Calif. She is the daughter of Amy and Brian Held, and weighed 5 pounds, 13 ounces at birth. The baby and parents are doing well and plan a summer visit to the Vineyard.