Megan Dooley

Stephanie

Chappy Native Pens Kids’ Book, Talks About Growing Up Different

Megan Dooley |

As a student at the Edgartown School, a counselor once told Chappaquiddick native Stephanie Duckworth-Elliott that she wouldn’t go to college, and implied that Ms. Duckworth-Elliott would not achieve in life. The young girl had a background and home life that already separated her from other kids her age — she was a member of the only Wampanoag family living on Chappy at the time, and raised primarily by her grandfather — and the counselor’s prediction made her feel even more detached from her peers.

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Graduates Win Approval to Wear Brazilian Colors

Megan Dooley

In a last-minute reversal of principal Stephen Nixon’s recent decision regarding appropriate graduation wear, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee voted last night to allow seniors, Brazilian and otherwise, to wear personalized scarves over their graduation gowns.

The vote followed an impassioned speech from former high school student and recent Emory University graduate Alex Parker.

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Paver

Edgartown Okays Valets and Police Chief

Megan Dooley

Edgartown leaders had no control over the paving project that caused a massive traffic backup on upper Main street last week, town administrator Pamela Dolby told the selectmen yesterday. In fact, no one in town even knew there would be a project until the police department received a call from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation the day before construction started.

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Brick by Brick, Row by Row, Islanders Help Build Pizza Oven

Megan Dooley

Wearing a red T-shirt smeared with chunks of sandy clay, first-grader Elijah Dunn-Feiner stepped up on a stool mid-morning Saturday, the center of attention in a room full of clay-smeared adults, to lay the first handmade mud brick on the stick-and-stone skeleton of Flatbread Pizza Company’s new pizza oven in Edgartown.

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Building Pizza Oven With 20 Tons of Clay

Megan Dooley

By MEGAN DOOLEY

Islanders are invited tomorrow for a roll in the clay with the owners of the new Flatbread pizza restaurant, which will share a building with Nectar’s nightclub at the airport this summer. They’ve already laid the foundation for the 20-ton clay oven that will fire their gourmet pizzas, but they’re inviting the community to pitch in with the rest.

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Assistant Principal Search Begins Anew

Megan Dooley

By MEGAN DOOLEY

The search for a new assistant principal at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will continue, after the school officials decided this week that neither of the two final candidates were a good fit for the position.

“No one was chosen,” said school superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss yesterday. “We’re going to repost.”

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Chilmark Okays Home Port Lunch Hours, Not New Fuel

Megan Dooley

Menemsha may have a new lunch option this summer, after the Chilmark selectmen approved an innkeeper and common victualler’s license for Dennis Barquinero, the new general manager of the Home Port, Beach Plum Inn and Menemsha Inn, with the understanding that Mr. Barquinero may open the Home Port’s take-out window for lunch.

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