News
An Island woman died in a single-car accident Monday afternoon on Eastville avenue across from the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
Rachel Dow, 37, of Pennywise Path in Edgartown, was driving out of the hospital parking lot around 5:45 p.m. when her 1988 Acura Legend shot into the woods across the street and burst into flames, state police trooper David Parent said.
American Tower Company, the company that wants to build a distributed antenna system (DAS) to improve cell phone coverage in the three up-Island towns, must apply for 23 individual special permits, one for each antenna to be installed on utility poles around town.
This is the opinion of Mark Bobrowski, a Concord attorney who is special counsel to the town zoning board of appeals. In a Jan. 15 opinion Mr. Bobrowski said the permits are required by the town zoning bylaw.
Despite some student resistance and new costs, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School is making progress with a new program to help lagging students show test improvements — which now is mandatory before they can get a diploma, guidance director Michael McCarthy told the high school committee Monday night.
The Oak Bluffs School completed the 2010 National Geography Bee on Jan. 26. The 10 students with the best scores in a preliminary round participated in the school bee.
Participants were eighth graders Ben Wadleigh and Sam Burke; seventh graders Mac Sashin, Russell Shapiro, Cheyenne Tilton and Noah Kleinhenz; and sixth graders Oliver Carson, Ben Clark, Kirsten S. Van Aken and Caio Proti.
Dean’s List
Christina M. Colley, daughter of Carlos and Joanne Colley of Oak Bluffs, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2009 semester at Saint Michael’s College.
Christina is a senior psychology and elementary education major at the liberal arts, residential Catholic college located in the Burlington area of Vermont. She is a Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School graduate.
The Martha’s Vineyard 20 Miler race bgins at 11 a.m. on Feb. 13. From highly competitive athletes looking for a test of their Boston readiness to dedicated recreational runners seeking to extend the length of their monthly long-run, this USATF-sanctioned course is a highlight.