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There will be no lack of support for the Vineyard boys’ basketball team as they take on defending state champion Danvers in tomorrow’s Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association state semifinals. In fact, the whole school has been given a half day off to watch the home team play at the TD Garden in Boston.
Regional high school sophomore Eli Hanschka won a second place award at the South Shore Regional Science Fair on Saturday, earning him a spot in the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair.
Next weekend, moviegoers will gather at the Chilmark Community Center for the 13th Annual Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. They will sit on bales of straw in the Hay Café and eat chef Chris Fischer’s home-cooked meals. But mostly, they will seat themselves in the cozy main room of the Chilmark Community Center, ready to get lost in the onscreen worlds of the 14 films in this year’s lineup.
The seasons of two winter sports teams came to an end last Saturday, as girls’ basketball and boys’ hockey fell in quarterfinals match-ups of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association sectional tournament. The girls, playing at home, lost 49-35 to Norwell, while the boys lost 4-3 to Franklin at a neutral site.
The Island’s main port town will soon officially be a domestic violence-free zone.
At their meeting Tuesday, Tisbury selectmen voted on a Martha’s Vineyard Community Services initiative
