Merchants in Oak Bluffs Win Effort to Keep Ferry Running to Mid-October

Merchants in Oak Bluffs Win Effort to Keep Ferry Running to Mid-October

By CHRIS BURRELL

Under pressure from selectmen and business leaders in Oak Bluffs, the Steamship Authority yesterday backed off a cost-savings plan that would have closed down ferry service to Oak Bluffs two weeks earlier than usual.

Shopkeepers protested, charging that the early closure at the end of September - instead of mid-October - would have been "devastating."