Business
Islander Joins Company
Debra Dolliver of Vineyard Haven has joined Jockey Person to Person as a comfort specialist consultant. Jockey Person to Person is the direct sales division of Jockey International Inc., featuring a line of women’s intimate apparel, sleepwear and activewear.
MVOL.com Adds Staff
MVOL.com, an Internet-based business in Vineyard Haven, has added several employees to its staff.
Ezra Sherman has been named managing editor. Among his primary responsibilities will be the production of news content for both MVOL.com and MVYradio. Megan Sokolowski and Abigail Southard have joined MVOL.com as account managers.
It is a summertime tradition, a shopping destination known for its rare antiques and its bizarre gems — a prosthetic leg, a mounted deer head, a talking bathroom scale. It is the flea market and, after 40 years as a Chilmark institution, it is moving to West Tisbury.
The move, to the grounds of the West Tisbury School on Old County Road, will reduce the scope of the flea, but will allow congregates of the Chilmark Community Church to continue to host the twice-a-week market.
On Tuesday, April 29, the Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network will host a breakfast meeting on customer service and sales techniques for success.
The meeting will bring together successful business women to discuss how they’ve used better sales techniques and customer service to build their businesses on the Vineyard.
Matt Coffey Receives
Island Vision Fellowship
Matt Coffey, an associate at Breese Architects in Vineyard Haven, has received a Martha’s Vineyard Vision fellowship.
Mr. Coffey has been with the firm for six years. He has become increasingly interested in green building and sustainable design, educating himself and others in the firm.
Sparks flew briefly in the Chilmark town hall this week after the zoning board of appeals approved a plan to turn the long-established Inn at Blueberry Hill into a members-only private club.
The zoning board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the plan by Lifestyle Development Company, a New York-based for-profit organization. The inn must keep its restaurant open to the public and must allow 25 per cent of the inn guests to be from the general public.