A veteran housing project planned for Bellevue avenue in Oak Bluffs could break ground by next May after getting approval from the town’s zoning board of appeals this week. 

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission this week declined to send a proposed Oak Bluffs veteran affordable housing complex to a full public hearing, helping fast track the project in its attempts to get funding. 

Island veterans gathered with friends and family Thursday evening to celebrate the ongoing development of the Vineyard’s first-ever veterans affordable housing complex, which is on track to begin construction in early 2024.

A veterans housing project in Oak Bluffs received select board approval Tuesday and is set to welcome bids from contractors.

Oak Bluffs is set to begin evaluating a proposal for a first-of-its-kind housing complex on the Island dedicated to Vineyard veterans.

The perpetually vibrant linguist, library trustee and World War II veteran who trained his beaming smile on everyone he knew and met, died Friday night at his home in Edgartown.

Escorted by police, World War II veterans Bob Falkenberg and Herb Foster will ride in a Jeep down Main Street and back to the Edgartown School.

In the late 1960s Tom Bennett was a Vineyard kid adrift in Europe, lying in his sick bed at a hospital in Amsterdam.