Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School sophomore Tova Katzman of Vineyard Haven was nominated this week by the Boston Globe for the prestigious American Visions art award for her black-and-white digital photograph, With the Sheep, which was designated best of show by the judges. She is the first Island student artist ever to be nominated for this important national award. She was one of only five nominees from New England, and the only photographer. One winner from the New England region will be chosen at the national competition in March.

Behind the white clapboard house in prime Edgartown real estate, around the back fence — high steel fencing, covered in turf and topped with razor wire — a patch of grass has been turned over to a garden. Like other gardens in the neighborhood it is dormant and frozen over now, but soon it will be carefully tended by a crew who will pull its weeds, plant and harvest its vegetables, more than willingly and for no pay. Indeed, each man must earn his time there.

In November they played leading roles in the regional high school drama The Miracle Worker.

Since then Katharine Clarke and fellow high school student Daniel Cuff have been working miracles of their own in the waters of Sengekontacket Pond.

The two seniors have been immersed in a marine biology water sampling project since last October. They’ve collected more than 30 water samples from beneath the Little Bridge, put the samples under a microscope and documented what they found.