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Jean Kelleher of Kelleher Real Estate has become the first Island broker to be awarded the National Association of Realtors’ new green designation. She completed a course giving participants comprehensive knowledge of green homes and buildings and issues of sustainability.
Ms. Kelleher was trained in understanding what makes a property green, to help clients evaluate the cost/benefit of green building practices, rating systems and how to help consumers understand the options for making their homes more energy efficient.
Great Job, Chris
Christopher Brennan Francis Post of West Tisbury was among 418 members of the class of 2009 to earn degrees from Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., on May 16. Mr. Post graduated with a bachelor of arts in psychobiology.
In the past few decades, the only way to spiff up an antique captain’s house was to sell it to a millionaire and have the buyer’s workmen attack it with pick-axes and bulldozers. But something very different and refreshing is happening to the 1840 Captain Thomas Mellen house on Main street, Edgartown, designed by master builder Ariel Norton, and owned by the Keniston family for the past 80 years.
Gas
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of June 23:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil $3.399 Depot Corner $3.399
Edgartown Mobil $3.459
Oak Bluffs
deBettencourt’s $3.359
Jim’s $3.379
Vineyard Haven
Citgo $3.359
Tisbury Shell $3.459
West Tisbury
Up-Island Automotive $3.269
Menemsha
Menemsha Texaco $3.329
Massachusetts state average (source: AAA) $2.657
Grocery Basket
Vineyard commercial fishermen scored a key win in the struggle keep them from being squeezed out of the groundfish industry yesterday when the New England Fishery Management Council voted to adopt the sector system, granting the Vineyard its own sector.
The vote came after three days of meeting in Portland, Me. The meeting was attended by a small group of Vineyard fishing activists.
A flood of foreign workers, a sagging economy and terrible weather have combined to create a turnabout in the Vineyard summer job market: too many workers and not enough work.
Employers across the Island report that they have many job applicants but far fewer jobs to offer this year as they tighten their belts, which includes cutting down on hiring.