Government
Mopeds top the warrant for Tuesday’s special town meeting in Oak Bluffs, where voters will again weigh in on a home-rule petition asking state legislators to ban moped rentals in town.
Still reeling from the death Sunday of their colleague and friend Kent Healy, the remaining members of the West Tisbury select board met briefly Wednesday. “As you’ll notice, there’s a board member missing this evening,” said board chairman Skipper Manter.
With the impending retirement of longtime town treasurer Melanie Becker, the Chilmark select board voted unanimously Tuesday to take steps to change the position from elected to appointed. Ms. Becker will retire in January.
As Covid-19 cases continue on a downward trajectory this fall, the six Martha’s Vineyard boards of health are now poised to revisit the question of mandatory indoor mask mandates on the Island The boards of health planned to meet at noon Friday by Zoom.
Confirmed cases of Covid-19 continued to decline on the Island, with 12 new cases reported for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 30, and just one more case in the two days since.
Two visions for a new, affordable apartment complex near the YMCA and ice arena in Oak Bluffs on a wooded parcel of town-owned land known as the Southern Tier, had their first airings Friday before more than 80 people at a special meeting of the town select board.