As a dispute over the athletic fields overhaul at the regional high school heads to court, the Oak Bluffs board of health appears posied to adopt a two-year ban on artificial turf in town.

With a $7 million overhaul of the high school athletic fields now stalled, the high school committee meets Monday to decide the next steps.

The bitterly debated multi-million-dollar project to overhaul the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School athletics fields was thrown into limbo Wednesday night.

The Oak Bluffs planning board took final comments Thursday night on the proposed turf field project and will deliberate and potentially vote at a meeting next Wednesday.

Passionate opponents of the plan to use artificial turf as the centerpiece of an athletics field overhaul at the regional high school had their turn before the Oak Bluffs planning board Thursday.

Martha’s Vineyard school leaders are strongly condemning an Island resident for his vulgar outburst at an Oak Bluffs planning board meeting Thursday evening.

As review of a plan to overhaul the regional high school athletic fields drags on, the Oak Bluffs planning board came under fire Thursday night.

The public hearing for a special permit to construct the turf field was continued to March 24.

The Oak Bluffs planning board opened a hearing last week on the project to build a new track and field complex at the regional high school.

The regional high school has run out of money for planning and design work on the new track and field at the school, after an exhaustive review by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.