Following a defeat by voters in the ballot box last week, Oak Bluffs leaders said this week they are uncertain about the next steps for the new town hall building project.
At a special election Thursday, Oak Bluffs voters defeated a debt exclusion question for an additional $1.3 million to build a new town hall.
Oak Bluffs voters go to the polls today to give a final stamp of approval — or not — for the long-planned new town hall project. Polls are open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the town library.
Oak Bluffs voters will gather for a special town meeting tonight to vote on two major spending issues. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Oak Bluffs School.
For about a year and a half starting in October, the town of Oak Bluffs will be run out of three trailers on School street to make way for a new town hall.
On Aug. 26, 1869, the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company, an energetic corporation which had bought up acres of the lovely woods and meadows and shore front stretches of what is now Oak Bluffs, sold one of those lots, 69 Pequot avenue, to Lydia B. Smith of New Bedford.
