Megan Dooley

Chappy Native Pens Kids’ Book, Talks About Growing Up Different

As a student at the Edgartown School, a counselor once told Chappaquiddick native Stephanie Duckworth-Elliott that she wouldn’t go to college, and implied that Ms. Duckworth-Elliott would not achieve in life. The young girl had a background and home life that already separated her from other kids her age — she was a member of the only Wampanoag family living on Chappy at the time, and raised primarily by her grandfather — and the counselor’s prediction made her feel even more detached from her peers.

 

 

 

Drawing and painting teacher Janice Frame had reason to be proud of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School senior Lonni Philips’ success last week at Featherstone Center for the Arts. Ms. Philips has, after all, been a student of Ms. Frame’s since kindergarten, when her work most likely consisted of finger paintings and play dough sculptures.

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In a decade or two, they may all be headlining the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. But for now, a group of 14 aspiring young Island filmmakers will at least enjoy the opportunity to share their work with the Vineyard community and possibly a few of the seasoned filmmakers who will attend the festival to promote their own work.

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The Edgartown selectmen voted against an Edgartown Wastewater Commission plan to pursue a feasibility study for building a wind turbine at its treatment facility, saying that the project proved too expensive and problematic.

The board denied the commission’s written request to contact town counsel about the feasibility study, and said they believe they should turn their attention away from wind energy at the site.

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The Chilmark Police Department recently shut down a longtime party barn for teens after a source led them to photos of the location on Facebook. The photos were posted on the social networking Web site by the very kids who took part in the booze-infused parties held there, begging the question: Why post a public record of illegal or unsavory behavior in the first place?

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In the land of Neverland, where little kids never grow up and swashbuckling pirates can never seem to defeat a team of rough-and-tumble young orphans, imagination rules. So too does it rule in the gymnasium of the Tisbury School, where on Friday night a group of some two dozen kids will channel the despised clan of Captain Hook and the always-triumphant lost boys, in the school’s second production of a musical version of the hit movie Hook.

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