The Oak Bluffs board of health decided Tuesday to ask the Inter-Island Public Health Excellence Collaborative, a group that brings together boards of health from the Vineyard towns, to discuss the prohibition.
Oak Bluffs board of health
2025
2024
April 23, 2024
The board, which had pondered issuing a moratorium on artificial playing surfaces for nearly two years, said its decision was done to protect water quality from harmful and long-lasting chemicals known as PFAS.
2023
November 28, 2023
The Oak Bluffs board of health held off on making a decision about a moratorium that could stall plans for a new artificial turf field at the regional high school.
September 12, 2023
The Holy Ghost Association was warned by health officials this week for improperly tagging quahaugs at the Feast of the Holy Ghost in July.
2022
May 24, 2022
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.
February 11, 2022
Town health agent Meegan Lancaster and principal assessor MacGregor Anderson both submitted their resignations late last week.
