Oak Bluffs News

Did you see that thing in the sky? Photo illustration by Cooper Davis. On the evening of Sept.

Nov. 9, Berta Welch, Vernon Welch and Carla Giles Cuch, trustees of Raymond Hill Nominee Trust and Adriana Ignacio, sold 2 Windy Hill Rd.

School spending accounts for the largest share of taxpayer expenditures in town budgets.

We hope this Thanksgiving day brings you a time to enjoy the company of family and friends and those you love best.

Oak Bluffs selectmen voted emergency housing money, began to consider substantial cost cutting moves, and discussed repairs and improvements in town parks last week.

Taj Mah-Trouble was the title, but producing it was no trouble for students in Mrs.

It was late Saturday morning at the Island's first Winter Farmers Market in the West Tisbury Ag Hall, and Oak Bluffs metalsmith John Roriz and Kate Collins, a respiratory therapist at the hospital, stood debating which of the Little Rock Farms soups was best, kale or butternut.

The town workers are already busy erecting the Christmas decorations around town with the David Healey Mall well decorated with wreaths and bows.

On Friday night, November 13, the Oak Bluffs School was transformed into the Arabian city of Agrabah.

How silently they tumble down And come to rest upon the ground To lay a carpet, rich and rare, Beneath the trees without a care.

Oct. 26, Paul R. and Dawn M. Marinelli sold 6 Plains Head Lane to Robert E. and Marion T. Davidson for $950,000. Oct.

It appears that tenants will be secure at least through January in the four Island towns where rental housing contracts were put in jeopardy two weeks ago, when the Island Affordable Housing Fund could not pay the monthly subsidies.

Over the past several weeks, news about problem dogs and how Island town officials dealt with them raised many questions about available options.

They always come this time of year and they are seen everywhere. You know what they are, the annual fall invasion of the leaves.

The all-Island seasonal flu vaccination clinic, scheduled Wednesday, November 11, is limited to 1,200 doses that will be given on a first come, first served basis.

"Strong and lovely and pure," is how Mr. Crohan describes Ms. Mayhew's voice. He is a seasoned pianist with an Island legacy that echoes through the streets of Oak Bluffs, where he spent a 20-year run entertaining guests at David's Island House.

Heated arguments erupted at the Tisbury selectmen's meeting Tuesday between selectmen chairman Tristan Israel and two shellfishermen who complained of too much - and too little - enforcement of shellfish regulations, at the start-up of scallop season on Lagoon Pond last weekend.

This coming Wednesday, Nov. 11, please remember all veterans. You could attend the ceremonies in Oak Bluffs at Ocean Park or take the time to view the Avenue of Flags at the Vineyard Haven Cemetery.

Tuesday morning Nauset Construction crews used heavy equipment to demolish the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority terminal building as part of the third phase of the terminal reconstruction project.

An analysis of harbor revenue from services to visiting boaters this summer reveals mixed results.