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The appeal of the Beal Commons project will be heading to trial. Beal Commons is a proposed 53-unit, 7,000-square-foot development.

Oak Bluffs will no longer be funding the controversial turf field appeal, calling into question how the lawsuit will continue. The town’s select board decided in a 3-2 vote to halt funding for the litigation. Board members Emma Green-Beach and Gail Barmakian cast dissenting votes.  Last month, the Oak Bluffs planning board filed an appeal […]

Plans to tear down the bleachers, sports lighting, and scoreboard on the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s varsity athletic field are underway, as school representatives have filed an application for a demolition permit. In the filings, which were submitted to the Oak Bluffs Building Department on Dec. 22, 2023, Island schools’ superintendent Richie Smith says […]

A land court judge has issued a final ruling in the lawsuit between the Oak Bluffs Planning Board and Martha’s Vineyard Regional School District, finding that the board did not have the authority to deny the school a request to construct a turf field. The planning board was most recently hoping that the judge would […]

Though both sides have agreed to avoid a trial, the MVRHS school committee and the Oak Bluffs planning board are still in disagreement about next steps for the development of a new turf field and track at the high school.  In a joint filing, the planning board asked the court to remand the turf project […]