Government
Convinced there's no way to make rental mopeds safe on the Vineyard, Oak Bluffs selectmen this week threw their support behind proposed state...
Despite winning unanimous approval from the Martha's Vineyard
Commission this spring, a plan to build a youth tennis center near
the blinker light in...
Not even a last-ditch effort - complete with a petition, more rhetoric and a town health official's surprising endorsement - could stop the smoking...
Special town meetings are supposed to be tame housekeeping
affairs, but Thursday's session in Oak Bluffs will steer voters
into some dicey territory...
Casey Sharpe, the executive secretary in Oak Bluffs, has
announced she will resign her position effective Sept. 30,
leaving selectmen to search for...
Cape and Islands state Rep. Eric T. Turkington was in no mood to mince words Tuesday at a committee hearing on Beacon Hill as he openly challenged...
Put away the nicotine patch. Smokers who thought they were about to
be pushed out of every bar on the Island may soon find friendly tobacco
turf in...
A new traffic study of the notorious blinker light intersection in Oak Bluffs could push selectmen one step closer to putting up the Island's first...
Brevity has rarely been a hallmark of town meeting season in Oak Bluffs, and next week's line-up of 52 articles spread across two warrants could well...
The Martha's Vineyard Commission knows all about wrangling
over golf courses, but next Thursday night they will take up tennis when
they consider...
The noise, dust and torn-up roadways they could tolerate, but not the huge electric panel boxes sprouting up all over downtown Oak Bluffs in the...
In the view of Aquinnah police chief Doug Fortes, the turning point came in the fall of 1999, when rangers from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay
Head (...