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The Oak Bluffs planning board kicked off the first of several meetings to gather public input regarding potential zoning reforms on Monday evening. Topics discussed during the meeting included minimum lot sizes and permitted uses under different districts, mixed-use zoning, providing waivers for affordable housing, and bylaws surrounding short-term rentals and fractional ownership.  “We completed […]

In his Sept. 5 decision, Land Court Judge Kevin T. Smith interpreted the so-called Dover Amendment (G.L. c. 40A, § 3) to reject the town of Oak Bluffs’ attempt to protect the sole-source aquifer serving the Island. At issue before Judge Smith was whether the town’s water-protections bylaw required a special zoning permit before the […]

To the Editor: This week my partner and I made a presentation to the Oak Bluffs Select Board on our new organization, which is working with the Oak Bluffs parks commission to raise money to buy trees for volunteers to plant in Oak Bluffs’ parks. One of the select board members, Gail Barmakian, asked me, […]

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The Galaxy Gallery is a nonprofit art gallery in the Oak Bluffs Arts District that showcases a variety of paintings, pastels, prints, jewelry, woodcuts, and more. Every year the Galaxy opens its season with a Mother’s Day kids’ art show, and this year, they’re closing their season with a teachers art show, running Sept. 15 […]