Oak Bluffs selectmen this week honored Tiki Greene, Genny Kent, and Nick Sune-Fecitt for their actions in three separate rescues this month.

Responding to criticism about the police department at the annual town meeting, Erik Blake plans initiatives to improve community relations.

On behalf of the Polar Bears of Martha’s Vineyard, I would like to urge the Oak Bluffs selectmen to support the article on the town warrant for the $40,000 for a beach rake.

Oak Bluffs voters will be asked to accept Hospital Road as the new public access into the Windemere neighborhood at the April town meeting, selectmen decided this week.

After hearing from town business owners who opposed a proposed plastic bag ban as too costly and inconvenient, Oak Bluffs selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday not to include the measure on the April town meeting warrant.

Oak Bluffs selectmen appointed Allyson Malik as the new town library director at their Tuesday meeting.

A $5.6 million project to restore the crumbling North Bluff coastal bank is set to come before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

Selectmen this week tried to broker a compromise solution in a heated dispute among town shellfishermen over the closing of Sengekontacket Pond to bay scalloping on the Oak Bluffs side.

Oak Bluffs selectmen reversed a decision made two weeks earlier and voted unanimously to reject all bids to restore the failing North Bluff coastal bank and seawall after a protest from one of the companies which bid on the project.

Issues included parking in residential neighborhoods, beginning with an increase in commercial vehicles parked off Pacific avenue. Selectmen listened and responded.