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Dean’s List
Megan Moynihan, a freshman at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, has made the Dean’s List for the first two trimesters. She is a 2009 graduate of Greater Lawrence Technical School. Her parents, John and Debbie Moynihan of Andover, and her grandparents, Martin and Gloria Mard of East Chop, are very proud of her.
Sandy Mincone, athletic director for the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, announced this week she will step down at the end of the current school year.
Ms. Mincone, who was appointed athletic director in August for a one-year period, is leaving the position to move off-Island. She said her decision came after much thought and consideration.
“I will miss the job and the people I have had the pleasure to work with,” she said. “I wish I could pick the school up and take it with me, but of course I can’t.”
All the panelists agreed with Ellsworth Havens — chairman of Rotary International’s program to find solutions to water and sanitation problems around the planet — that ensuring the fair distribution of potable water is “the greatest environmental issue confronting the world today.”
Tisbury firefighters quickly extinguished a fire outside 54 Main street on Sunday evening that started in a trash can behind the building. Owned by Larry Levine, the building houses the Peter Simon and Louisa Gould galleries.
The fire was first reported by Ms. Gould, who was in her gallery and smelled smoke just after 8 p.m. and called 911.
Oak Bluffs voters on Tuesday finished their annual town meeting after a three-week hiatus, easily agreeing to ban smoking on town beaches, regulate the construction of new windmills, impose restrictions on street performers and establish new rules for development in town flood zones.
Voters also approved $350,000 in Community Preservation Act funding, the bulk of it for two separate affordable housing proposals.
By the start of next school year, Island students could see a hefty price cut for off-Island trips, if the school committee approves a new pay structure in which groups pay only the direct costs associated with the trips. The new design would cut field trip costs in half, down to $200 per trip.