Business
Grant Will Help Train
Nurses for Windemere
The state has announced the award of a $104,974 workforce training fund grant to Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
The grant will fund a program to train 10 employees to become licensed practical nurses in 10 months. In addition to the grant, Windemere will fund $244,644 of the training program.
Red Cross Slates Workplace Safety Seminar
The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands chapter will has scheduled a workplace safety informational seminar for Sept. 26 in Hyannis.
The seminar will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the Four Points by Sheraton Hyannis Resort at the West End Rotary.
The Navigator restaurant in Edgartown will not open for business this summer due to unforeseen complications in transforming the building into an exclusive private club.
There's nothing like a deadline to keep a project rolling full steam ahead. In this case, the deadline is a mother in law's visit. The project to be finished in time for one of the Vineyard's busiest weekends is phase one of a three year, $77 million plan to restore and enhance the former Harbor View Hotel on North Water street in Edgartown.
From his earliest years, Michael Donaroma could not help but be aware of the bipolar, us and them, have and have not division of Martha's Vineyard society.
"My father left when I was two," the Edgartown businessman and selectman recalled this week, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the nursery business which has carried him across to the have side of that social divide.
Ownership of the Chappaquiddick ferry clearly seems a good deal to a lot of people, judging by the offers Roy Hayes has received since he revealed that he is looking to sell after 19 years.
It’s not hard to see why someone would want the business — a monopoly service with an assured and growing demand.