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The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School expects a deficit of more than $300,000 for the current school year, its finance manager said Monday, forcing school officials to make cuts to the supply budget and scramble for any other savings to be found in the budget.
Regional High School finance manager Mark Friedman announced the projected shortfall for the fiscal year 2009-2010 budget at the school committee meeting Monday.
The Grey Barn and Farm of Chilmark began as an idea in Dubai, the ostensible city of the future in the United Arab Emirates. And now owners Eric and Molly Glasgow are edging toward the day when they will have created a viable dairy farm on the former Rainbow Farm property in Chilmark that they purchased from David Douglas earlier this summer.
It’s the winter of year 2016, and somewhere in the ocean south of Martha’s Vineyard, 17 turbines are turning in the cold wind, generating enough electricity to meet all the power needs of the Island.
They are not owned by some profit-driven corporation, these turbines, but by the residents of this place. And people’s power bills are about half what they were in the bad old days when power was imported from dirty, fossil-fuel-burning power stations on the mainland, and $80 odd million of Island money was exported each year in return.
The smell of fresh paint and new lumber hung in the air of the West Tisbury town hall on Tuesday during an open house for the public to see the newly renovated building in the heart of the village.
“Everything is new and fresh . . . you can smell it in the air,” said executive secretary Jen Rand.
More fishermen are coming: the Vineyard community, sportsmen and local businesses are pooling their resources to greet the Monday arrival of five men and two women who were recently seriously injured during military service. The veterans are coming to fish the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, now entering its second week.
What better opportunity to bring out the best of the Vineyard than to share a local passion with those who have served their country?
Scores were released this week for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the annual testing in commonwealth public schools that measures student performance in math, reading and science.