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The three candidates vying for two open seats on the Oak Bluffs select board were given the opportunity to acquaint themselves with town business owners and local stakeholders at a forum hosted by the Oak Bluffs Business Association at the Portuguese American Club Monday evening.   Mark Leonard, Tom Hallahan and Dion Alley are looking to […]

With the annual town elections right around the corner, voters will soon be tasked with choosing new members to represent them in local government. In Oak Bluffs, two of the five select board members, Ryan Ruley and Brian Packish — current and former chair, respectively — have announced that they won’t be seeking re-election. Looking […]

The Oak Bluffs Select Board approved the issuing of a request for proposals for the construction of the North Bluff/Seaview Avenue project, which will include a new roundabout.  The project will feature a landscaped rotary at the intersection of Circuit Avenue Extension and Seaview Avenue Extension, along with a reconfiguration of the area’s parking format.  […]

A discussion about closing bars earlier in Oak Bluffs pitted local business owners against town officials at Tuesday’s select board meeting.  Stemming from former talks on how to update the town’s alcohol policy, the Oak Bluffs select board took up the agenda item Tuesday at a well attended meeting at town hall.  Select board chair […]

Almost a year after the Oak Bluffs Select Board reluctantly agreed to raise the Progress Pride flag in recognition of Pride Month, a proposed revision of the town’s flag policy, which the board acknowledges as restrictive, failed to garner support of the board, prompting the policy to be back under debate. The decision to fly […]

At Tuesday’s Oak Bluffs select board meeting, Mike Santoro, chair of the Oak Bluffs harbor advisory committee, relayed a recommendation from the committee to move up the lottery application deadline for slips in the town’s harbor for the season.  Out of the 10 resident slips available via the lottery — which are rentable at a […]

A popular Oak Bluffs eatery is on the move. A request to transfer the location and license of Red Cat Kitchen to the site of the former Oyster Bar 02557 was approved unanimously by the Oak Bluffs select board Tuesday evening.  Owner Ben DeForest brought the request forward after the Oyster Bar 02557 and its […]

To the Editor: While I appreciate that there are many opinions about how the MVC should make decisions and how they should be effective, I can’t tolerate the self-gratified and hypocritical tone in the criticism levied by Brian Packish. He and some of the Oak Buffs select board members suggest they could do a better […]

Upon reappointing Brian Smith as Oak Bluffs’ representative to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission Tuesday, the Oak Bluffs select board discussed some of the issues currently facing the regional planning and permitting agency.  Oak Bluffs joins Edgartown, which also recently mulled over how to move forward with its participation with the commission, following a series of […]

At their Tuesday meeting, Oak Bluffs select board members heard from newly appointed town shellfish constable Donovan McElligatt regarding the shellfish bushel limit and a recommendation to make changes to the 2022–23 scallop season temperature restriction. McElligatt pulled back on an October request to decrease commercial and recreational/family fishing bushel limits for both Sengekontacket Pond […]