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In a rare Friday afternoon session, the Oak Bluffs select board met to approve the appointment of Leah Brown to the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA), and Abby Bender to the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council. Both positions hold three-year terms. Brown, an attorney and owner of a clinical research company, has also served on the […]
Oak Bluffs voters gathered for the town’s special and annual town meetings, held at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Performing Arts Center on Tuesday. Far surpassing quorum requirements, it was the first Oak Bluffs annual town meeting held indoors since 2019. Select board member Brian Packish opened the meeting with the acknowledgement of recently […]
The Oak Bluffs select board hired Public Safety LLC to help the town select its next police chief. Chief Erik Blake has announced he will retire effective June 30, which leaves the town with just a couple of months before the busy summer season to get a new chief on board. On Tuesday, March 15, […]
Oak Bluffs has brushed aside a high school project funding formula suggested by Chilmark. After deliberation on the subject and after learning the town’s finance committee had roundly rejected the idea, the Oak Bluffs select board resolved to push forward an “equitable argument,” as chair Brian Packish put it, and to convene an all-Island select […]
The Oak Bluffs select board voted 4-0, with one member absent, to approve a tree species change for the Circuit Avenue streetscape project. On the recommendation of Tim Wong of the Waterfield Design Group and Tim Boland, executive director of Polly Hill Arboretum, the board nixed Callery pears (also known as Bradford pears) in favor […]