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Junior Jeremy Alley-Tarter placed 14th in a field of 221 runners at last weekend’s Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association Eastern Divisional Cross Country Championship, held Saturday in Wrentham. Alley-Tarter finished with a time of 16:51 to lead the Vineyard contingent, which finished sixth of 32 teams in Divison 5. In the process, he qualified for the MIAA All-State Meet, which will be held tomorrow at Northfield Mount Hermon.
The Oak Bluffs School is going to the sea for its annual fall musical with a production of The Little Mermaid. Showtimes are tonight, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m., all at the Oak Bluffs School.
The Aquinnah special town meeting was postponed Thursday night after the meeting failed to gather a quorum.
As the northeast continues to recover from Hurricane Sandy’s historic destruction two weeks ago, federal and state disaster relief officials visited the Vineyard on Thursday to assess damages and help begin the reimbursement process for damages to town property sustained during the storm.
Initial estimates to town and county owned coastlines and property Island-wide swelled to over $14.2 million.
In 1988, head football coach Donald Herman had just started coaching at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and was unfamiliar with the Island Cup, the annual rivalry football game between the Vineyard and Nantucket. The game was scheduled to be played on Nantucket that year, so he went over to “the other island” early with the junior varsity team, meeting up with the Nantucket coach.
Citing a community effort to counter teenage drinking, the Youth Task Force announced last week that a youth behavior survey shows a decrease in alcohol use by Island teens, though the rates are slightly higher than the national average.
But they also cited concern about a rise in marijuana use, saying that the legalization of marijuana has contributed to increased use by teenagers.