News
The Vineyard boys’ high school hockey team will advance to the next round in the state tournament following a solid 5-1 win Monday night against Whitman-Hanson at the Gallo Ice Arena in Bourne.
The seventh-seeded Vineyarders scored two goals in the first period against the tenth-seeded Panthers and never looked back. The Vineyarders first got on the board seven minutes into the game when Nick Billingham redirected a rebound from Darren Gazaille and fired the puck past Panthers’ goalie Brandon Lynch.
Two high school students from the Berkshires are here for three days to talk up organic student-run farming. Sophomore Sam Levine, 15, and senior Sarah Steadman, 18, are sharing their story of how they were able to start a farm in a school soccer field next to their high school and bring thousands of pounds of produce to their school cafeteria. Today they continue their tour of Island farms and meet with students at the regional high school to share their farming stories.
In a debate highlighting the growing complexity of affordable housing management, Chilmark selectmen are split over whether affordable housing recipients should be able to pass on their homes to their heirs.
The question arose after a Chilmark couple which won the right to buy a two-acre lot at High Meadows development was misled on the issue due to an administrative error on the part of the town.
Receives Culinary Degree
Brittany Andelin-Baker of Vineyard Haven earned her bachelor’s degree in culinary arts management from The Culinary Institute of America on Nov. 7, 2008. Brittany is a 2005 graduate of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Medical Reserve
The Martha’s Vineyard Medical Reserve Corps has announced its new officers: chairman, Shirley Fauteux, Oak Bluffs health agent; vice-chairman, Chuck Cotnoir, Dukes County emergency management director, treasurer, Matthew Poole, Edgartown health agent; clerk, Carol Bardwell, hospital chief nurse executive.
The Vineyard Nursing Association has announced a plan to expand its services to include hospice care, directly competing with Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard, a 28-year-old Island institution which operates solely on donations, unfettered by the constraints of insurance regulations.
Vineyard Nursing Association has applied to become a licensed hospice provider certified under Medicare.