Three people will vie for two seats on the Oak Bluffs board of selectmen this spring, including two new faces, after longtime selectman Greg Coogan decided to not run again.
The Vineyard boys won the Cape and Islands league championship Friday night, after after defeating Falmouth 58-46. It was a game of ups and downs, but the Vineyarders held their own.
The high school boys hockey team’s season came to a premature end — and the girls hockey team breathed new life — on Wednesday, after a dizzying chain of coronavirus-related events produced broad reverbations throughout the Island’s high school hockey program.
The Oak Bluffs selectmen will seek damages in small claims court against a Northborough man who cut down a tree in Ocean Park on New Year’s Day without permission.
The high school swim team posted a strong showing in the Cape and Islands league championship last week while the other winter sports teams closed out the regular season and geared up for league tournaments.
At a grand opening Saturday afternoon, leaders at the food pantry and Island Grown Initiative gave tours of the new facility at the Portuguese American Club in Oak Bluffs.
After 18 years as an Aquinnah selectman, Jim Newman has decided the best way to continue to serve the tiny up-Island town he loves is to step aside for someone new to take his seat.
As usual there were lots of celebrity cameos in the Super Bowl commercials this year — Martha Stewart, John Travolta, Kyle Busch, Carl Weathers. There was also a familiar Vineyard face: Emma Lovewell.
The Vineyarders played almost entirely on the Cape last week as they looked to build momentum heading into the final days of the high school winter sports season.
