The Dukes County treasurer warned this week that with revenue from the registry of deeds sharply down from last year, county department heads will be required to cut their budgets both during the current fiscal year and the following year as well.
The Oak Bluffs zoning board of appeals on Tuesday agreed to a preliminary list of conditions that will be sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission as it prepares to review the revised Bradley Square affordable housing project.
After five years, a pile of lawsuits and more public meetings than anyone could count, Joseph G. Moujabber’s illegal three-story garage in the North Bluff section of Oak Bluffs started to come down this week.
An elaborate scheme seeking to trick people into providing sensitive information about their bank accounts over the telephone resurfaced on the Vineyard this past week. Reports indicate several Islanders received automated phone calls on Sunday and Monday telling them there was a problem with their bank account.
The juggernaut Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team continued its ascent toward a championship on Tuesday, easily defeating a talented team from Monument High School in South Boston in the state divisional playoffs to advance to a Super Bowl showdown against Amesbury tomorrow at Bentley University in Waltham.
Tomorrow’s Eastern Massachusetts Division 3A championship game kicks off at 1 p.m.
Oak Bluffs voters will consider a number of weighty issues at a special town meeting next Thursday, including whether to hire a firm to investigate the source of treated effluent seeping to the surface at Ocean Park and whether to rescind $400,000 in Community Preservation Act funds previously approved for the Bradley Square project.
Voters will consider a total of 10 articles when the special town meeting convenes Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs school. Moderator David E. Richardson will preside.
