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The Oak Bluffs select board voted 4-0, with one member absent, to appoint Sgt. Nicholas Curelli as acting lieutenant of the town’s police department. Oak Bluffs Police Chief Erik Blake told the board Curelli has “definitely stepped up to the plate” and taken on extra work following the retirement of Lt. Tim Williamson and the […]
The Oak Bluffs health agent and principal assessor have both resigned from their positions. Health agent Meegan Lancaster has been with the department since 2015. She confirmed her Feb. 22 resignation with The Times, but declined to comment further. Her husband, principal assessor MacGregor Anderson was hired in 2019 after serving as assistant assessor. Lancaster […]
Longtime Oak Bluffs Police Chief Erik Blake is set to retire on June 30, the Oak Bluffs select board announced at a Zoom meeting Tuesday. Reading from a press release, select board chair Brian Packish said Blake is retiring after a 35-year career in law enforcement. Blake began his law enforcement tenure in 1987 when […]
We predicted this would happen. As soon as Superintendent Matt D’Andrea announced at a Thursday, Jan. 20, meeting that he was headed hat in hand to the select boards of Martha’s Vineyard looking for them to sign on to a letter of support to the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA), we knew who the holdout […]
The Oak Bluffs select board appointed Kathy Laskowski, Christina Izzo, and Tommy-Ann Brown to the town’s new streetscape project review committee. The group will be included in onsite biweekly meetings. The citizen group will sit in with the project engineer, highway superintendent, and contractor. The idea for the group was proposed after the controversial streetscape […]