For four weeks, Godfrey Muwulya, a native dancer from Uganda, has been teaching traditional dances from his country to fifth and sixth grade social studies students at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, thanks to The Yard.

After several months of gathering feedback from residents, the town of Tisbury identified some clear long-term goals, including strengthening its year-round community, improving parking and traffic, creating a vibrant town center, and making better use of public spaces.

Mountains of snow and ice have piled up around the Vineyard — in parks and parking lots and along roads — following two major storms that have tested Island plow crews and depleted municipal snow removal budgets.