Executive session minutes from the Oak Bluffs select board have revealed information about a missing handgun. Until requested by the Martha’s Vineyard Times, the minutes hadn’t been released, and the details contained in those minutes about the missing handgun appear to have never previously been disclosed by the town. The minutes show a former Oak […]
The Oak Bluffs Police Department is missing a Bushmaster M-4 rifle, according to a press release issued late Friday afternoon by select board chair Brian Packish. The department has launched an independent investigation and placed a department employee on paid administrative leave, the release states. In a brief message to The Times, Oak Bluffs Police […]
After two years of no August fireworks in Oak Bluffs, town leaders put together a committee to spark the event back to life. Traditionally the Oak Bluffs Firemen’s Civic Association plans, fundraises, applies for permits, executes, and cleans up the popular end-of-summer event, all with volunteers. But the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with a lack of […]
Nelson Wirtz was sworn in as the Oak Bluffs’ new fire chief at a short ceremony Sunday, capping a year and a half long search for the town. The ceremony was held outside the Oak Bluffs Fire and EMS Building amid department members, town officials, Wirtz’s family, and Wirtz’s former colleagues at the Chatham Fire […]