Healy Square News Today

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” —Maya Angelou This quote from one of America’s great poets got me thinking about the potential that exists in traveling […]

The North Bluff renovation project, which will include a new roundabout by the Island Queen and Patriot ferries in Oak Bluffs, is underway. Town officials say construction is expected to be completed by the end of the year. In the meantime, roadways will be blocked to all traffic on Circuit Avenue Extension and Seaview Avenue […]

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.  […]

Members of the Oak Bluffs Business Association (OBA) have created a fundraising campaign in order to cover the costs of erecting the Sunset Lake Christmas tree for the upcoming holiday season.  Due to budget constraints, the town had decided to opt out of decorating the town as it has in the past.  Renee Balter, one […]

In a joint meeting with the Oak Bluffs affordable housing committee Tuesday evening, the town’s select board approved a request of $250,000 by Island Housing Trust and Boston-based Affirmative Investments to help fund the affordable housing project Southern Tier. The project was made logistically possible by the recent “doughnut hole” land swap signed into law […]

The Oak Bluffs select board approved the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School funding formula agreement at their meeting on Tuesday evening.  Select board member Brian Packish, who had been participating on behalf of the town in the Island-wide efforts to come to a funding agreement, explained that the town is at 22.89 percent, after a […]

The first official pride parade on Martha’s Vineyard pulled in Islanders en masse on a warm, blue skied Saturday in Oak Bluffs.  Hundreds gathered street side as paraders commenced through the town. Festivities began at the dock of the Island Queen ferry on Oak Bluffs Harbor. The parade was met with cheers as onlookers watched […]

To the Editor: Once again, I take issue with one of your editorials. Once again you go on moronically like you don’t read the Letter to the Editor page of your own paper. Once again you go on about “community,” “civics,” and “being a neighbor,” without acknowledging the exclusive beach policies of Chilmark and West […]

To the Editor: It is difficult to find the right words to use at times, especially when it is important to do so. Each year for almost 30 years now, I have asked many people to “do their part” to help create a very special event that brings Oak Bluffs families, friends, students, teachers, town […]