In a sometimes tense, sometimes emotional debate, Oak Bluffs selectmen heard arguments for and against a request to remove plaques from a Civil War monument.

Noepe Center for Literary Arts announced this week that it will reopen this spring in partnership with Featherstone Center for the Arts.

Noah Glasgow recently took first place in the South Shore Regional Science Fair for his experiment, The Acidifying Ocean’s Effect on Protease Activity in Alteromonas. In May, he heads to the state and international science fairs.

Eclipse Studio isn’t a yoga studio. It’s not an acupuncture clinic, writing center or art gallery, either. Well, not technically. To owner Antone Dias, it’s all of that and more.