Tisbury voters will weigh in at a special town meeting Tuesday on nearly $26 million in additional borrowing to complete the Tisbury School renovation project.

The Tisbury finance and advisory committee has voted 7-1 to recommend borrowing nearly $26 million in additional funds for the Tisbury school renovation and addition project. Voters will decide whether to approve the borrowing at a Sept. 20 special town meeting.

Whatever feelings the Island's children may have about returning to school next Tuesday, Sept. 6, their principals, teachers, coaches and other campus leaders are eager to welcome them back for a school year with a return of cherished traditions.

Six students from the Vineyard are among the winners of the Steamship Authority's Sail into Imagination art contest.

The Tisbury School project is an estimated $10 million over budget, forcing the school building committee to throttle back plans.

Contractors are moving in for the two-year, $53 million renovation and addition at the Tisbury School.

Tisbury School and Vineyard Montessori are using bottled water as they investigate elevated lead levels found in routine state testing.

A nearly 10-year effort to significantly overhaul the Island’s oldest town school is headed back to voters in Tisbury, where in June they will be asked to approve a $55 million bond measure.

The up-Island and Tisbury School committees voted this week to authorize their share of the funding for a school-wide testing program, just as the first Covid-19 cases have been identified in the school system.