Government
In a hastily called emergency session, Oak Bluffs selectmen met Saturday with approximately 35 members of the fire and EMT staff.
There will be no parking meters in the Tisbury-owned parking lot on Beach Road this summer.
As the Steamship Authority nears two years of off-season construction at its Woods Hole terminal, costs for the project have surpassed $70 million, boat line general manager Robert Davis confirmed this week.
In the face of growing opposition to a major expansion project at the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, Tisbury selectmen voted Wednesday night to send a letter of support to the shipyard.
There are 20 Island selectmen, the vast majority of them over 60. But with the deadline still a month away for filing nomination papers, three young candidates have already declared that they will be running.
Following years of discussion, planning and controversy, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School this week submitted the first phase of a plan to renovate the school track and athletic fields.