School budgets are seeing a rise on Martha’s Vineyard. The latest iterations of the shared-services budget and the Up-Island Regional School District budget presented during recent school committee meetings show a proposed increase of 15.64 percent and a 9 percent respectively. The proposed shared services budget had an increase by $1.27 million, adding up to […]
Chilmark School principal Susan Stevens announced she will be retiring after this school year. The announcement was made during the Up-Island Regional School Committee meeting on Monday, October 16. Stevens has been the Chilmark School principal since 2009 and led the up-Island school through the COVID pandemic. The principal told The Times she spent 33 […]
The Up-Island Regional School District is looking at a $15.13 million budget for fiscal year 2024, an 8.81% increase from the previous fiscal year’s budget of $13.9 million, unless some expenses can be trimmed. No vote was taken on this draft budget by the Up-Island Regional School Committee during the Wednesday evening meeting. “The assessed […]
Correspondence shared during the West Tisbury select board meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 17, confirmed South Mountain Company’s withdrawal from the 401 State Road affordable housing project. A Nov. 4 letter from South Mountain Company CEO John Abrams to Island Housing Trust (IHT) CEO Philippe Jordi shared two reasons to remain withdrawn from the project, which […]
Members of the Up-Island Regional School District (UIRSD) gave their blessing to the Field Fund for access to the West Tisbury School’s non-potable well, providing a source of irrigation for adjacent town fields. At Monday’s UIRSD committee meeting, West Tisbury School principal Donna Lowell-Bettencourt said the Field Fund came to her because they are working […]