Oak Bluffs is the place to be for the Fourth of July weekend.
That’s always been the case, according to many residents, and now they have one more reason to think so.
This weekend, the community will conduct its First Annual Juneteenth Day of Independence, a Multicultural Celebration. Events include a beach concert Friday and a dance Saturday. Both nights will feature live music, plenty of food and several vats of non-alcoholic ginger beer.
Titled The Chasm Is Not Closed, a new exhibit at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum uses a pair of tributes to the Confederacy to dig deeply into a disturbing chapter in the Island's not too distant past.
Yoga in the park. Boot camp by the bandstand. At a select board meeting, Oak Bluffs park commissioner Amy Billings described an overabundance of businesses in public parks.
A recent survey of 28 businesses in downtown Edgartown shows the pandemic continues to have widespread and often dire impacts on Island commercial districts.
Plans to revamp downtown Oak Bluffs which include changing the angled parking on the upper part of Circuit avenue to parallel parking drew a mixed response Monday evening.
After a decade of service in the Oak Bluffs town hall, departing town administrator Bob Whritenour was surprised with a parade outside of it on Friday.
Surrounded by water, filled with parks and people and treasured landmarks, Oak Bluffs is a photogenic town. The Ocean Park bandstand adorned with bunting for the Fourth of July or adorned with a Christmas tree and snow. East Chop Lighthouse standing guard at Telegraph Hill. The sunrise off Inkwell, the sunset over Sengekontacket, Circuit avenue bustling with visitors and traffic in the height of the summer season.
