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Madeline Way tapped on an iPad in her Project Headway classroom at the West Tisbury School.
“The kids who use this program cannot talk,” she explained. “But they can go like this in a fury.”
Tap, tap, tap. The iPad speaks: “I — want — puzzles.”
The Tisbury School has announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2012-2013 academic year.
Eighth grade high honors go to Justine Cassel, Elias Fhagen-Smith, Colbeck Leuenberger and David Packer.
Eighth grade honors go to
Alexandra Barlett, Amanda Bernard, Robson Borges, Monica Carroll, David Caseau, Alison Daigle, Renee Goodale, Anthony Jackson, Emma Kristal, Gavin Leuenberger, Benjamin Nadelstein, Barbara Paula, Ava Petricone, Jenna Santos and Ashley Wood.
From Nov. 26 through Nov. 29 the Tisbury School Library is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair. Books will be available for all ages including adults.
The Tisbury School Library will use the funds raised at the book fair to purchase print, audio, and video resources to support the library, curriculum frameworks and reading interests of our students.
Hours are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 2:45 to 4 p.m. and Wednesday from 2:45 to 7 p.m.
Call 508-696-6527.
The Oak Bluffs School is going to the sea for its annual fall musical with a production of The Little Mermaid. Showtimes are tonight, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m., all at the Oak Bluffs School.
In 1988, head football coach Donald Herman had just started coaching at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and was unfamiliar with the Island Cup, the annual rivalry football game between the Vineyard and Nantucket. The game was scheduled to be played on Nantucket that year, so he went over to “the other island” early with the junior varsity team, meeting up with the Nantucket coach.
Citing a community effort to counter teenage drinking, the Youth Task Force announced last week that a youth behavior survey shows a decrease in alcohol use by Island teens, though the rates are slightly higher than the national average.
But they also cited concern about a rise in marijuana use, saying that the legalization of marijuana has contributed to increased use by teenagers.