One case of vibrio was linked to improper tagging of shellfish at the Feast of the Holy Ghost, held in Oak Bluffs earlier this summer. According to Oak Bluffs assistant health agent Alexa Arieta, Dukes County–appointed food inspector Drew Belsky followed up with state food inspector Steve Rice because of a case of vibrio stemming […]
A section of Lagoon Pond in Oak Bluffs was closed to swimming for a day this week. Doug’s Cove had a bacteria count over a state threshold and was closed until Tuesday when the beach was retested. Health officials say the second reading was much lower and under a state threshold. Oak Bluffs assistant health […]
Robert Sawyer has withdrawn an application seeking to demolish a building at 3 Uncas Ave. in Oak Bluffs a 4-bedroom house with a one-bedroom cottage he sought to rebuild into eight workforce housing apartments, some of them affordable under the state’s guidelines. Sawyer wrote a detailed email withdrawing the application. He referred to the […]