Schools
The fate of an artificial turf field at the regional high has been in limbo since the school sued the Oak Bluffs planning board last year.
The up-Island school committee last week agreed to rescind a previous vote placing a hold on enrollments from outside of the district.
Superintendent Richard (Richie) Smith spoke sternly to school committee members this week, wishing he was given a head’s up about the motion at West Tisbury town meeting that led to voters rejecting the high school budget.
It’s not every day uniformed members of the U.S. Coast Guard play volleyball with first-graders or shred string cheese with kindergartners at snack break. At the Tisbury School, however, things like this are happening every Thursday.
The legal tug of war over the regional high school’s plan to use artificial turf on its athletic fields took center stage unexpectedly this week as town meeting season got under way.
Spring sports are back in action at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School as the tennis, baseball, softball, lacrosse, track and sailing teams open their sessons.