An Oak Bluffs business owner’s months-long battle with the town to generate income on his property may be nearing resolution.

At meetings spanning the spring and summer, Bill Coggins asked selectmen to support various plans for a Circuit avenue lot he purchased in April. The board discouraged him from pursuing options that included food trucks and retail cars, saying they would compete with brick and mortar businesses and violate a town bylaw that prohibits the exhibition of wares on the street.

Pasted in the corner window of the door that leads into Lamplighter Corner is a sign that reads: “You need a lamp, Billy got a lamp.” It was written in blue crayon by the daughter of craftsman Billy Hoff, who has been at the helm of the Island business for the past eight years.

At first glance, a barrel of wood shavings outside a cabinet shop may not seem like a big deal. But to Bill Bishop, wood shavings bring back memories of growing up in Danbury, Conn. Behind the house he grew up in there was a cabinet shop. “I used to watch the guys make stuff in there,” he said. “The first time, I think I was about six or seven, I remember watching a man collect saw dust and shaving curls and the bags would overflow. I couldn’t comprehend how he could make so much. So I started watching him through the window. It was the first inclination that I wanted to be a carpenter.”

Scott Dawley has done it all: electrical work, sheet rocking, carpentry, flooring, diving for coins. “I’ve been in the trades ever since I was knee-high to a grasshopper,” he said. Mr. Dawley owns Dawley Flooring and Tile and also offers handyman services.