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In the wake of revelations this week that Oak Bluffs officials may have lacked the authority to approve over $200,000 in end-of-the-year transfers, selectmen on Tuesday hastily scheduled a special town meeting later this month to approve the transfers and close the books on the current fiscal year.
Public Safety Day
Public Safety Day, a family event sponsored by the Oak Bluffs police department, is set for Saturday, June 7, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The event will be held at the Dennis Alley Park (formerly Waban Park) on Sea View avenue. Event participants will include the Oak Bluffs police and fire departments and the U.S. Coast Guard.
Last Friday afternoon at four o’clock, a woman on a red moped tossed a clear plastic water bottle off the eastbound side of the Edgartown-West Tisb
A key subcommittee of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Monday voted without dissent to recommend approval for the Bradley Square project in Oak Bluffs with a list of conditions, perhaps paving the way for the full commission to endorse the mixed-used affordable housing project when it begins deliberations in the coming weeks.
Hello, Aquinnah
Kendra and Will Adams of Studio City, Calif., announce the birth of Aquinnah Abigail Adams on May 30. Quinn is the great-granddaughter and 17th great-grandchild of Helen Jackson of Edgartown. Her grandparents are Marilyn and Bill Adams of Quincy and Gail and Peter Raynsford of McConnelsville, N.Y. Quinn plans to visit the Vineyard in August.
In the wake of a budding plan by the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School to build a 220-foot wind turbine in West Tisbury, the town must develop additional regulations — and quickly — for windmills in town, selectman Richard Knabel said this week.