Tisbury and Oak Bluffs are nearing agreement on sharing a building commissioner who would cover both towns.

With a small audience of community nonprofit leaders and organizers, Oak Bluffs selectmen discussed the town’s role as host of the majority of the Island’s nonprofits and human services.

Tisbury and Oak Bluffs are beginning to talk across town lines about sharing some services, beginning with a building commissioner

Oak Bluffs voters will decide next month whether to approve additional funding for a new town hall project.

Oak Bluffs selectmen met in emergency session Tuesday to consider a special election to exclude the debt on the new town hall project.

Unable to arrive at a consensus, Oak Bluffs selectmen put off a decision this week on whether to ask voters for another $1.3 million to build a new town hall at an upcoming special town meeting.

For the second time in three months, bids to build a new town hall in Oak Bluffs have come in well above available funds, leaving town leaders scrambling for a solution.

Striking a new tone of collaboration, Oak Bluffs and Tisbury selectmen agreed this week to join forces on three initiatives, including reining in spending on human services.

The Oak Bluffs selectmen voted this week to complete a complicated, long-delayed land swap between the town and the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank involving parcels in the Southern Woodlands.

The dilapidated Island Theater was on a few minds during the annual summer taxpayers meeting hosted by the Oak Bluffs selectmen Tuesday night.