Another chapter was added last week to the long saga over the illegal three-story garage built by Oak Bluffs resident Joseph Moujabber without a permit along the North Bluff.
After three meetings and a detailed site visit to the garage and several neighboring homes the Copeland Plan district review board on Thursday approved a modified plan calling for the structure to be torn down and replaced by a new addition on the rear of Mr. Moujabber’s existing home on Sea View avenue extension.
A pair of Siberian huskies who got loose last month and killed several chickens were spared from humane euthanization on Tuesday after the Oak Bluffs selectmen agreed to instead ban one of the dogs from town and ordered the other one housed in a secure pen made of concrete and chain-link fence.
Just as high school athletics season kicks off comes the potentially good news that the Eastern Athletic Conference — a sports league made up of predominantly parochial schools from the south shore — has invited the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School to join its ranks.
Several Vineyard sports teams have been without a conference since the principals of the South Coast Conference unexpectedly voted in December of 2006 not to allow the regional high school to remain in the league.
Faced with mounting evidence that nitrogen loading from septic systems and failed cesspools are seeping into environmentally sensitive coastal waterways like Sengekontacket and Farm ponds, the Oak Bluffs wastewater district has begun developing a long-range wastewater management plan.
A West Tisbury man was arrested and charged with operating under the influence of alcohol on Sunday after he reportedly drove his vehicle into the back of a Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority bus that had stopped to let off passengers on Beach Road in Oak Bluffs.
In just over seven years, funds generated through the Massachusetts Community Preservation Act on the Vineyard have been used for a wide variety of projects — including the renovation of historic lighthouses and bandstands, the creation of affordable housing and the renovation and improvement of public parks.
