Riis Williams

Oak Bluffs Breezes Through Special Town Meeting

Voters passed all 12 articles at special town meeting Tuesday in under 30 minutes.

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Honoring Veterans Day Around the Island

The annual Veterans Day parade kicks off at 10:45 a.m. Saturday from Nancy’s Restaurant on Lake avenue and winds its way up to Ocean Park. There, a ceremony honoring the country’s veterans will begin at 11 a.m.

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Soccer and Friendship Fuel Half a Century of Connection

Fifty years after being exchange students at the regional high school, Claudio Mac-Lean and Daniel Poletto came back to the Island this week to see their old host families and reminisce about helping start the high school's soccer team.

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Oak Bluffs Voters to Consider Solar Project Reaffirmation

Oak Bluffs will hold a special town meeting on Nov. 7 at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Performing Arts Center. Attendees will cast their votes on 12 articles regarding town maintenance projects, affordable housing land designations and formatting changes to town bylaws.

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Roots of a Movement; Tree Stewards of Oak Bluffs Dig in

On Saturday, the tree stewards of Oak Bluffs hosted an inaugural tree planting at Niantic, Nashawena and Wesleyan parks, planting 10 trees with the help of 26 volunteers.

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Planning Board Hears Oak Bluffs Marijuana Petition

The Oak Bluffs planning board is weighing its recommendation on a recently filed citizen petition that would allow marijuana stores downtown. 

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Supporting Seniors for Over Four Decades

In 1979, after Joyce Stiles-Tucker graduated from college with a degree in sociology and a social work license, she returned to Vineyard Haven, where she was born, headed to Main street and began passing out copies of her resume.

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Chilmark Officials Ponder Menemsha Traffic, Litter

Chilmark residents and town officials convened this week to discuss how best to manage Menemsha’s growing summer tourism. 

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Trustees to Study Ways to Protect Poucha Pond Marsh

Roughly $155,000 in grant money will be dedicated to surveying a salt marsh around Poucha Pond and the bay side of Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge on Chappaquiddick.

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Oak Bluffs Select Board Approves Stormwater Project

The project will target stormwater runoff on Hudson avenue in Oak Bluffs that currently flows into and pollutes Lagoon Pond.

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