On Tuesday, Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School sixth grader Volkert Kleeman woke up long before dawn to look for worms in his family’s compost pile.

Forging a new future for the Tisbury School building was the subject of a working session Monday night with school and town leaders at the table.

The regional high school district committee took a hard look at a draft budget for fiscal year 2020 at its regular meeting Monday night, weighing options to keep the increase to a minimum.

On Thursday, more than 450 people sat down together in the West Tisbury School gymnasium for a farm-to-table meal and some live music from a school alumnus.

The question of natural grass versus artificial turf dominated public comment at a meeting called last week to air ongoing plans to overhaul the athletic fields at the regional high school.

The regional high school girls cross country team are division champions for the first time in the program’s history.