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There is a stench coming from the Oak Bluffs Police Station. Sgt. Michael Marchand has resigned, forced out after an internal investigation found that he violated department policy in the handling of an M-4 rifle that was issued to him when he was the school resource officer at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Marchand insists […]
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 […]
After multiple meetings, the Oak Bluffs select board approved placing the housing bank warrant article on the upcoming town warrant, becoming the sixth and final town to do so. As part of the approval to put the article on the warrant, the board requested clarification on a majority versus a two-thirds vote. After a year […]
Updated 6:20 pm An Oak Bluffs Police Department investigation into a lost then found patrol rifle enmeshed many but blamed only one person, Michael Marchand, the department’s senior-most sergeant. Marchand has resigned, according to a press release from select board chair Brian Packish sent Wednesday evening. A “mutual separation and release agreement,” received by The […]
An Oak Bluffs police sergeant says he was forced to resign after alerting the chief and town leaders that a police assault rifle was missing, a letter from his attorney alleges. That rifle, a Bushmaster M-4, was later reported found. Oak Bluffs Police Sgt. Michael Marchand has notified the town he intends to sue for […]