Oak Bluffs firefighters responded to a fast-moving fire that swept through a single-family home on Carole avenue on Monday. No one was injured in the blaze, although the home was a complete loss.
The fire department was called to the fire at 29 Carole avenue off of County Road at 11:45 a.m., fire chief Peter Forend said. The home was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, with smoke and flames coming out of the roof and back kitchen area.
It was an overtime thriller for the high school football team this week in its inaugural game in the Eastern Athletic Conference, while the field hockey battled both opponents and illness.
Football
After winning by forfeit last week against Charlestown, the football team was eager to take to the gridiron at home this week against Coyle-Cassidy in what proved to be an exciting contest that went down to the wire on Friday night under the lights.
After losing their season opener, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School field hockey team went on a hot streak this past week, winning two games in impressive fashion while tying two others, including a stalemate against Division I powerhouse Somerset, widely considered to be one of the strongest teams on the Vineyard’s schedule this year.
Coach Lisa Knight is ecstatic about her team’s performance. After a frustrating loss to Sandwich in the opener, team members were eager to get back on the field and prove themselves.
Because shipments of seasonal influenza vaccine will arrive on the Vineyard later than expected, the annual Islandwide innoculation will be postponed until the second week of November.
Seasonal flu innoculation is now scheduled to take place at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School on Nov. 11.
The town layoffs are over, and now Oak Bluffs voters must come to terms with their budget crisis, which includes a combined operating deficit of $800,000 between last year and this year.
“These are difficult times that call for hard choices,” said selectman and board chairman Greg Coogan at the weekly selectmen’s meeting Tuesday night.
At a special town meeting that has been set for Oct. 20 voters will be asked to cut nearly $500,000 from the town’s current operating budget.
The smell of fresh paint and new lumber hung in the air of the West Tisbury town hall on Tuesday during an open house for the public to see the newly renovated building in the heart of the village.
“Everything is new and fresh . . . you can smell it in the air,” said executive secretary Jen Rand.
