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On Wednesday night, as the puck dropped for the third period of Game Seven in the Stanley Cup Finals, the streets of Oak Bluffs were, for the most part, quiet.
The Tisbury School will celebrate the memory of teacher Michael Ovios today, Friday, June 17 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Mr. Ovios, 65, died unexpectedly at Massachusetts General Hospital on March 31. He taught at the Tisbury School for over 35 years and passed on his love of the arts, sculpture, theatre and industrial arts, including woodshop and ceramics, to generations of students.
A decade after a seminal study showing the magnitude of the Vineyard’s housing crisis — in facts and figures, resident surveys and census data — a collection of Island affordable housing groups want to do it all again.
The Joint Affordable Housing Group, an informal committee that includes the various town affordable housing committees, nonprofit housing organizations and advocates, is trying to scrabble together approximately $30,000 to replicate a housing needs assessment carried out in 2001 and last updated in 2005.
Michael and Judith O’Donoghue of Oak Bluffs are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Ellen Hughes O’Donoghue, of Oak Bluffs, to Ryan Daniel Rossi, son of Daniel and Jane Rossi, of West Tisbury.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court has solidly backed the town of West Tisbury in its ongoing effort to keep Rogers Path, an ancient way that leads to a Civil War-era cemetery in the North Tisbury section of town, open for public use.
It was a perfect day to be on the water last Wednesday in Menemsha; there was little wind and the sun was shining as the commercial and recreational harbor began to get under way for the summer season. But what if one of those boats had an accident and oil began to cascade into the inner harbor, or worse, if a large tanker had an incident out in Buzzards Bay?
With both scenarios real possibilities, Islanders prepared an emergency response plan in the event of an oil spill.