Business
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum welcomes its new education director, Ann DuCharme. She will join the staff on Nov. 4.
Ms. DuCharme comes to the Vineyard from Cincinnati after summering here for years. She most recently worked for the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati facilitating Visual Thinking Strategy sessions for area schools and working with teacher resource guides. She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. David Finkelstein of Vineyard Haven recently attended a two-day annual ophthalmology update seminar in Boston. The seminar included classes in the latest techniques in cataract surgery, age-related macular degeneration, oculoplastics surgery, management of malignancies of the eyelid, diabetic retinal disease and the latest technologies to enhance diagnoses of ocular diseases.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation will work with the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority to continue to provide seasonal rail service to Cape Cod next summer, it announced this week.
The arborists at Beetlebung Tree Care hope their treetop handiwork doesn’t cause an accident this week.
A faded yellow building that once housed the Oak Bluffs laundromat may become the future site of a bowling alley.
Reid (Sam) Dunn, the architect who developed the Tisbury Marketplace in Vineyard Haven, presented a preliminary proposal to open a bowling alley, restaurant and bar on Uncas avenue to the town selectmen Tuesday.
“This is totally informational,” Mr. Dunn said. “We wanted to let you know that the project is in the works.”
The Vineyard Gazette has received a Publick Occurrences award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA) for its coverage of the Schifter house move on Chappaquiddick.
The award, presented at the NENPA fall conference Thursday, recognizes outstanding journalism for a series of stories written by Gazette reporter Sara Brown and accompanied by photographs by Ray Ewing.