Schools
As the fall athletic season heads into the home stretch, the field hockey and boys’ soccer teams this week moved closer to a berth in the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament.
Meanwhile the football team stumbled with a crushing loss to Somerset last Friday, while boys’ and girls’ cross country each posted wins against Bishop Stang and Barnstable as they wrap up another stellar season under coach Joe Schroeder.
Cross Country
It was an overtime thriller for the high school football team this week in its inaugural game in the Eastern Athletic Conference, while the field hockey battled both opponents and illness.
Football
After winning by forfeit last week against Charlestown, the football team was eager to take to the gridiron at home this week against Coyle-Cassidy in what proved to be an exciting contest that went down to the wire on Friday night under the lights.
After losing their season opener, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School field hockey team went on a hot streak this past week, winning two games in impressive fashion while tying two others, including a stalemate against Division I powerhouse Somerset, widely considered to be one of the strongest teams on the Vineyard’s schedule this year.
Coach Lisa Knight is ecstatic about her team’s performance. After a frustrating loss to Sandwich in the opener, team members were eager to get back on the field and prove themselves.
Sports of every kind were front and center across the Vineyard this week — from bars and living rooms where people watched the New England Patriots win the season opener and the Boston Red Sox inch closer to a postseason berth, to the high school athletic fields where several teams started their seasons with big wins.
The All-Island School Committee approved superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss’ proposal to modify his current contract, forgoing a four per cent salary increase next year and extending his contract by two years, at the committee meeting on Sept. 10.
The committee also approved a recommendation from Dr. Weiss that administrative staff members not receive a salary increase this year, and that tech and support staff receive a 2.5 per cent increase.
The Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School celebrated the addition of four newly-built classrooms at a potluck ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday evening in West Tisbury.
Board president Laura Sargent Hall used hedge clippers to slash the blue ribbon, and school girls collected the gold bows for souvenirs, after some singing and bagpipe music greeted the latest extension to the post-and-beam school that began 14 years ago with nothing but the main hallway connecting some classroom trailers.