Schools
The Chilmark Preschool is offering emergency exempt child care services for all eligible emergency workers, essential workers and vulnerable families, seven days a week.
Martha’s Vineyard public schools will forgo April vacation, and the Island school year will end on Monday, June 22, the all-Island school committee decided Friday.
MVRHS senior Julianne Joseph has won a National Silver Medal at the 2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
The Steamship Authority on Sunday released statistics showing a modest increase in out-of-state vehicles coming to the Vineyard in the first half of March, as Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker urged residents with second homes on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard to stay home.
This week, schools around the country shut their doors leaving parents and children scrambling for routines and learning how to home school on the fly.
With an Islandwide shutdown beginning to weigh on the Vineyard’s most vulnerable residents, volunteers are needed during the coronavirus emergency.