Schools
The Tisbury School has announced its honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2012-2013 academic year.
Eight grade honors: Alexandra Barlett, Robson Borges, Monica Carroll, David Caseau, Justine Cassel, Nicholas Chapman, Emma Kristal, Colbeck Leuenberger, Benjamin Nadelstein, Patricia Oliveira, Barbara Paula and Ava Petricone.
Eighth grade high honors: Elias Fhagen-Smith and Ashley Wood.
Seventh grade high honors: Margaret Burke, Carolyn Duarte, Evelyn Medeiros, Lily Pigott, Benjamin Tillman, Elizabeth Williamson and Salyn Yancey.
Janice and Leo Frame teach completely different subjects and their classrooms, located at opposite ends of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School building, tell the story.
Mrs. Frame’s walls are covered in student artwork. Mr. Frame’s business classroom is clean, white and gray, and neatly organized. Both the Frames teach elective courses: art and business.
As summer heats up and tick season reaches its peak months on the Island, the Martha’s Vineyard Tick-Borne Initiative has launched its latest public health effort, reaching out to Vineyard schools via video.
Last week more than 1,500 DVDs, each containing a short tick safety and awareness video, were delivered to Island schools, with each elementary-age child receiving a copy to take home.
Martha’s Vineyard Head Start will lose two slots in its home-based preschool program because of the federal budget cuts known as sequestration.
When people say that history repeats itself, they aren’t usually referring to high school tennis.
But in a match that lasted just under an hour and a half last Saturday afternoon, the Vineyard boys successfully defended their Massachusetts division three state championship title with a 4-1 win against Bromfield.
A cheering crowd of Island fans greeted the Vineyard boys tennis team when it returned home Saturday carrying a trophy for the second straight year