Oak Bluffs is looking to improve and showcase stormwater resiliency methods on Hudson Avenue. James Houle, program director at the University of New Hampshire’s Stormwater Center, proposed the use of a so-called bioretention and permeable parking concept design on Hudson Avenue during a Tuesday, Oct. 24 Oak Bluffs Select Board meeting. While further permitting is […]
Oak Bluffs residents will be deciding next month whether some properties may be used for affordable housing. Oak Bluffs will hold its Special Town Meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 7, at 7 pm at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center. The Oak Bluffs Select Board recently approved the special town meeting warrant. Atop the warrant, the […]
The Oak Bluffs Select Board expressed disapproval of a request to fund a feasibility study for a swimming pier at Eastville Point Beach. During the Oak Bluffs Select Board meeting on Tuesday, Tisbury conservation commission member John Best proposed using Oak Bluffs parks commission’s Community Preservation Act funding to conduct a feasibility study on constructing […]
Despite pleas from a number of Oak Bluffs business owners, the town’s select board will be moving forward with the implementation of a new alcohol policy, requiring that bars move up last call and close half an hour earlier. The policy, which mirrors that of Edgartown establishments, will be going into effect on Sunday. Both […]
After signs supporting neo-fascist, white nationalist group Patriot Front were posted in Oak Bluffs’ Circuit Avenue early this month, Oak Bluffs select board chair Emma Green-Beach and Aquinnah select board member Juli Vanderhoop are drafting a letter rebuking bigotry, to be sent to Island agencies for co-signing as a joint statement. Co-signatures will be sought […]