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The Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative hosted its third annual Job Shadow Day this month, matching about a dozen Vineyard young people with mentors to gain firsthand experience about careers in their fields of interest, including software design, public relations and physical therapy. The day capped an eight-month program that began in June with the MVYLI Youth Leadership Summit. Liz Witham, left, of Film-Truth Productions, and Shavanae Anderson were among those who attended a reception at the Harbor View Hotel where the youth and their mentors shared their experiences.
The Eagles have landed. In closely-matched, hard-fought games at the middle school basketball championships Tuesday night, the Edgartown School girls’ and boys’ teams both took home trophies.
The middle school boys’ basketball team at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School is a team without walls.
The all-Island school committee and the teachers unions ratified a tentative agreement for a contract that will boost teacher salaries by as much as 11.5 per cent in salary and step wages over the next three years.
The new contract, which goes into effect Sept. 1, calls for a two per cent increase in teacher salaries in the first year, a two and a half per cent increase in the second year, and a three per cent increase in the third year. The overall package also includes step increases, track changes and longevity pay.
For the past four years Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal and amateur musician Stephen Nixon has played a concert to raise money for the David Brand Scholarship fund, established in honor of the science teacher’s untimely passing.
In Brendan Coogan’s classroom at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, student Amy Fligor daintily painted her nails; all fifty of them. “We have a pot, like a deep fryer that we melt wax in,” Amy said. “I stuck my fingers in the wax . . . Now I’m trying to make the fingernails a little more pink.” Amy is one of 33 Martha’s Vineyard Regional High school students who received an award at the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards competition. Her waxed fingers holding a cup described by her as “holding the world in the palm of your hand,” received an honorable mention.