Volunteer with Red Cross

The American Red Cross is looking for Island volunteers for general support, health and safety preparedness, disaster services and military family support.

Training is provided, free of charge.

Volunteer forms are available to download on the web at cciredcross.org; click volunteer, or call 508-775-1540.

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Prize Pupils

Two Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School high school students, Allison McAndrews and Liam Wallace, both of Vineyard Haven, were given the 2011 Saint Michael’s College Book Award for Academic Achievement with a Social Conscience.

The award recognizes students who demonstrate a commitment to leadership in volunteer service and academic achievement.

Samantha Rabin

Samantha Rabin, daughter of Karen Bressler and Steven Rabin of Edgartown, was named the recipient of the David J. Gray Senior Prize in Sociology at Hamilton College on May 6.

Ms. Rabin, a senior majoring in sociology, is a graduate of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

A proposed new building at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport business park could become the home of a second Offshore Ale Company brewing outpost.

The building also might house the Steamship Authority reservations office, which will lose its lease at the airport park in 2012.

With a trying fiscal year 2011 behind it, the town of Oak Bluffs must now grapple with a fiscal year 2012 budget that looks increasingly unsound. Selectman and board chairman Kathy Burton said the town was looking to make up a shortfall of around $300,000 in its 2012 budget based on revenue projections, and everything was on the table at a Thursday morning brainstorming session with department heads and representatives from town committees.