Schools
Eight years after directing her first Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School musical, theatre teacher Brooke Hardman Ditchfield is leaving the school, but not the Island.
The Oak Bluffs planning board took final comments Thursday night on the proposed turf field project and will deliberate and potentially vote at a meeting next Wednesday.
The first day back to school after spring break is usually not a cause for celebration as students and teachers lament the end of vacation.
Passionate opponents of the plan to use artificial turf as the centerpiece of an athletics field overhaul at the regional high school had their turn before the Oak Bluffs planning board Thursday.
More than a dozen officials from all six Island towns gathered Wednesday to begin developing an intermunicipal cost-sharing agreement to rebuild or replace the aging school.
When he leaves for a new job in Wareham this summer, Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. Matthew D’Andrea will leave behind a school system facing challenges on multiple fronts.