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The Oak Bluffs Select Board is waiting to get an opinion from the town’s legal counsel before agreeing to display a 9-foot-tall menorah in Ocean Park.  On Tuesday, Nov. 14, Chabad on the Vineyard director Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz came to the board requesting to set up a menorah display for Hanukkah, which lasts from Dec. […]

Islanders love yoga. Hot yoga. Vinyasa yoga. Restorative yoga. Goat yoga. Llama yoga. We have it all. Yoga is known to increase flexibility, improve muscle strength, help maintain a balanced metabolism, good for cardio and circulatory health, and improves mood and weight reduction. So if you’re going to choose a group to make an example […]

An increasing number of amplified music permit requests are putting the Oak Bluffs select board between rock and a hard place.  At their Tuesday meeting, the board heard from Leeza Singh, representing the Cannes Can Diversity Collective, who requested permission to use amplified sound for three consecutive nine-hour days at Waban Park. Signh additionally requested […]

On Monday, Oak Bluffs Parks Commission voted 2-1 to allow an LGBTQ+ Pride Flag Raising Ceremony at  Ocean Park on Wednesday, June 1, the first day of National Pride Month. The specifics of the actual flag raising are contingent on Tuesday’s select board decision whether to allow the Progress Pride flag to be raised on […]

The Oak Bluffs select board voted unanimously on Tuesday to grant U.S. Coast Guard contractors access to town land in order to facilitate the removal of lead-contaminated soil. Following testing last year, which corroborated and in some spots amplified testing in years prior, Coast Guard contractor Renova Environmental Co. found that lead polluted the soil […]