Schools
Heeding a request from two towns with strained budgets, the regional high school committee voted Monday to cut some $90,000 from its budget.
Martha’s Vineyard public schools will close early Tuesday due to the oncoming winter storm. The regional high school will close at 11; elementary schools will close at noon. The charter school is closing at 12.30 p.m.
As You Like It opens on Thursday, Feb. 14. Director Brooke Ditchfield said she wanted to continue to stretch her students after last year's hit West Side Story.
Head basketball coach Mike Joyce recently passed the 200-win threshold. His love for the game began at age seven when he and his buddies would bike to the Oak Bluffs courts to shoot hoops.
The regional high school district committee voted 5-4 at an overflow meeting Monday to press ahead with a plan to rebuild the school athletic fields, using artificial turf for the main field.
A total of 25 students from Martha’s Vineyard earned recognition for their work in this year’s Boston Globe Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.