The all-Island school committee and the teachers unions ratified a tentative agreement for a contract that will boost teacher salaries by as much as 11.5 per cent in salary and step wages over the next three years.
The new contract, which goes into effect Sept. 1, calls for a two per cent increase in teacher salaries in the first year, a two and a half per cent increase in the second year, and a three per cent increase in the third year. The overall package also includes step increases, track changes and longevity pay.
For the past four years Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal and amateur musician Stephen Nixon has played a concert to raise money for the David Brand Scholarship fund, established in honor of the science teacher’s untimely passing.
Following a four-month search, the Tisbury board of selectmen voted Tuesday to name John W. Grande as town administrator.
Mr. Grande currently serves as planning board director for the town of Framingham, a position he has held for 16 years.
“I’m very thankful for their vote of confidence in me,” said Mr. Grande when reached by telephone Wednesday. “I’ve already got a lot of phone calls from the Vineyard congratulating me.”
Every Wednesday afternoon Martha’s Vineyard Rotary members meet for lunch at the Ocean View restaurant and drop happy dollars into a bucket. “I have a happy dollar for my last tuition paid for Kate, at least she swears it is,” said Chappaquiddick ferry captain Liz Villard, referring to her daughter’s master’s degree.
“Happy dollar for Liz, for another great job with the soup supper,” said Mike McCourt, referring to Ms. Villard, who coordinates a community supper hosted by the rotary club at the Edgartown Whaling Church.
Nearly three years after construction started, and more than a decade since the project was first conceived, Tisbury officials gathered Sunday to celebrate the official opening of the town’s new emergency facilities building.
