The Tisbury School held its annual awards ceremony for the fifth through eighth grades on June 17. Academic achievement awards were presented in all subjects. The following special awards were also given: Jeffrey T. Goodale memorial award, Lachlan Cormie, grade five; Dorothy Larkosh Roberts award, Matthew Barton, grade six; Rose Anthony award, Karl Rasmus Sayre, grade seven; Art Buchwald Philanthropy award, Elizabeth Smith, grade seven; and the following eighth grade awards: Kerry Alley Humanitarian award, Gabrielle Silva; Eugene W.

Several Martha’s Vineyard students earned awards at Falmouth Academy’s annual Recognition Day ceremonies, June 12. The ceremonies honored character, hard work, imagination, personal and academic growth, and community achievements.

Lagan Trieschmann, class of 2010, the son of Beth and Stephen Trieschmann of Vineyard Haven, earned the all-school Bruce E. Buxton Award for Imagination as well as an award for excellence and leadership in martial arts. He will attend Princeton University this fall.

Miss Hall’s School announces that senior Maili Scott, of Vineyard Haven, received the Margaret Witherspoon Award, the school’s highest honor, and the Sylvia “Rusty” Shethar Everdell ’38 Prize during the school’s 112th Commencement ceremonies.

Maili, the daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Scott, was also among the students who shared the 2010 Christine Fuller Holland ’33 Service Prize, and she was named a recipient of the Meus Honor Stat key, one of the School’s highest awards for leadership and citizenship.

Private Silvia

Army Pvt. Timothy M. Silvia has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.

During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies, Army history, core values and traditions, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, map reading and land navigation, foot marches, armed and unarmed combat, and field maneuvers and tactics.

Most people who move to the Island have a grace period to learn the tricky street names, quirky personalities and unique rhythms of the Vineyard. But on Monday that grace period came to abrupt end for Chief Jason Olsen, station commander for the U.S. Coast Guard station at Menemsha. Chief Olsen, 35, took command just six weeks ago.