The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) will be installing two chargers for two new electric buses the school recently acquired. At Monday’s MVRHS committee meeting, member Kim Kirk said the two buses have arrived on-site at the high school, and as part of the criteria for the grant that helped pay for the vehicles […]
Updated 4:30 pm The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) committee swapped lawyers for its appeal of the Oak Bluffs planning board decision to deny a special permit for a track and synthetic turf field project. At an earlier MVRHS committee meeting, officials approved the hiring of land use attorney Mark Bobrowksi, and agreed to […]
Richie Smith is the new superintendent of Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools for a period of two years. During Thursday’s meeting of the All-Island School Committee (AISC), members voted 11-3 to appoint Smith as the superintendent for the remainder of what would have been outgoing superintendent Matt D’Andrea’s remaining term. Smith will take on his new […]
During a tense, three-hour meeting Monday night, the School Committee focused on how to proceed after the town’s Planning Board voted weeks earlier to effectively quash the turf project.
The Oak Bluffs board of health appears to be leaning toward a two-year moratorium banning synthetic turf fields in the town, but won’t take a vote until the town’s attorney, Michael Goldsmith, has a chance to fully review and tweak the language of the moratorium. All three board members spoke in favor of the moratorium […]