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After a strong start, the Vineyard real estate market appears to have weakened dramatically in the latter part of the fiscal year just ended, according to data for the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank.
Land bank revenues, generated from a two per cent fee imposed on most real estate transactions and therefore a good indicator of the overall health of the property market, were a little over $7.7 million in fiscal year 2011, a modest increase on last year’s $7.4 million and well up on the $5.76 million of 2009.
Virginia Elizabeth Vogt has joined Bouclé Salon & Spa of Edgartown. Certified in oncology aesthetics, eyelash extensions and peels, the Vineyard Haven-based aesthetician brings to Bouclé service for individuals with cancer, or recovering from cancer.
Her certification from Touch for Cancer prepares professional aestheticians to provide safe, personalized spa treatments to people with health-challenged skin.
Despite all the organizations on the Island dedicated to helping those in need, some needs go unmet. The backers of a new Web site hope to change that.
NetworkofNeighbors.com, which goes live in August, is the brainchild of Squire Rushnell and Louise DuArt of Edgartown.
Cathlin Baker, the first woman minister in the history of the First Congregational Church of West Tisbury, calls her church, which dates to the 1600s, “the little church in the heart of the Island.”
When the new weather vane at the bandstand in Ocean Park is unveiled, it will be a product of a centuries-old trade brought to new life by Anthony Holand of Tuck and Holand Metal Sculptors.
The back seat of the Aquinnah police cruiser is cramped and hot. A black wall, just inches from the edge of the seat, grows into plexiglass, reaching the ceiling of the police car. There is barely enough room to sit, and the partition keeps all the air conditioning in the front seat. In the summer heat of a July day at noon, the back seat of the cruiser is sweltering. It’s an uncomfortable place for a perpetrator — or today, a reporter.