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Bank Statement
The Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank reported it closed $90.6 million in mortgage loans during 2008. As a result, the bank grew its loan portfolio 6.89 per cent for the year. The bank’s total assets grew 2.55 per cent for the year. Core deposits grew to $360.9 million, and capital grew to $53.2 million at year end Dec. 31, 2008.
Richard J. Labrecque has been named senior vice president at the Edgartown National Bank.
The new title reflects Mr. Labrecque’s accomplishments in the commercial lending area, said bank president and chief executive Fielding Moore: “Rick has done an excellent job of working with Island businesses to find innovative solutions to meet the banking needs of our Island business community.”
Mr. Labrecque has 25 years of community banking experience.
Matt Mincone, coach of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys’ hockey team, wasn’t disappointed by his team’s crushing 3-2 loss last Friday against Coyle Cassidy in the Division 2 South Sectional semifinals, a game decided by the largely unfamiliar format of a shoot-out.
Nor was the coach sad, or enraged by the shoot-out loss. Instead it left him, as it did many players and parents, feeling simply numb.
The West Tisbury library, in collaboration with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, will be hosting a five-week Wednesday reading series. The readings will take place Wednesdays, March 11, 18, 25 and April 1 at 5:30 p.m., and will feature one poetry fellow and one fiction fellow. Listeners will have the opportunity to ask questions and receptions will follow. All readings will be free and open to the public.
Welcome to Scarlett Elizabeth Adams. Scarlett is the daughter of Susannah and Christopher Adams of Scituate, Mass. She is the great-granddaughter of Helen Jackson of Edgartown and the granddaughter of Marilyn and Bill Adams of Quincy, Mass.
Scarlett’s brother, Charles, and sister, Clara, welcomed her home on Monday, Feb. 23. Her family is looking forward to Scarlett’s first visit to the Vineyard.
Kim and Lee Carlos of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Franchesa Rose Carlos, born on Feb. 11, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Franchesa weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces at birth. She is welcomed by her big sisters, Sabrina and Gabriella.