( Oct. 13, 2023 ) Two Nantucket students – first grader Tanya Evans and fifth grader Raphelia Matheney – are among the winners of the Steamship Authority s eighth annual Sail …
The Steamship Authority announced the winners of its eighth annual art contest for students in grades kindergarten through grade 12. The winning artwork will be showcased in a 2024 calendar and on board Steamship ferries this fall and winter. Approximately 200 students submitted original artwork inspired by the theme “Sail into Imagination,” which encourages students […]
In averages of state statistics from the last three years, several Vineyard elementary schools have some of Massachusetts’ highest rates of kindergartners exempt from at least one immunization. According to data compiled by the Boston Globe, the Chilmark School has the state’s second-highest rate. About 23 percent of kindergartners at the up-Island school received exemptions […]
Brentford J. Ferreira died on July 29, 2023, at his home in Long Beach, Calif. Brent was born in Oak Bluffs in 1947, and graduated from the Oak Bluffs Elementary School and Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, going on to Cornell University, and later Loyola Law School. For many years, he served as an assistant […]