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A point of purchase system for the cafeteria, two hybrid vans and a mobile language lab — these are some of the projects whose funding was approved Monday at the last Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee meeting of the fiscal year.
An additional $100,000 for new football field bleachers also got a green light from the committee, using money from the high school excess and deficiency fund which must be allocated before July 1.
Editors’ Choices
Yankee Magazine’s New England travel issue has named four Vineyard establishments as editors’ choice winners for 2008. The magazine named Détente and Once in a Blue Moon in Edgartown, Iroquois Cottage in Oak Bluffs and Mediterranean in Vineyard Haven.
Twelve monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in southern India visited the Vineyard for five days last week to spread good karma and raise money for their monastery. Cris Mayhew of Edgartown was instrumental in bringing the monks to the Island.
“The five days started with me going over to Woods Hole to greet them (try approaching the check-in shed and asking if a van of 12 Tibetan monks has arrived) and ended with a goodbye blessing at the Oak Bluffs dock right before boarding. So much happened in between,” Ms. Mayhew wrote in an e-mail this week.
Seamus and Aaron Arrive
Sarah Ward Callahan and James Callahan of Rutland, Vt., announce the birth of twin boys, Seamus Ward Callahan and Aaron Walter Callahan, on May 13.
The Steamship Authority has sold the long-troubled ferry Flying Cloud to a Venezuelan company for $3.9 million.
Boat line general manager Wayne C. Lamson announced Wednesday that Gran Cacique II bought the high-speed vessel, which ran on the Hyannis-Nantucket route from 2000 to 2006.
The SSA paid nearly $8 million for the Flying Cloud, which was built by Derector Shipyards in Mamaroneck, N.Y. The boat line placed the vessel in service to compete against Hy-Line in the Hyannis-Nantucket high-speed ferry market.