A contract dispute between Vineyard Web designer Kathleen Forsythe and Edgartown public relations specialist Danielle Pendergraft’s company ended this week with a finding for Ms. Forsythe and her company, Forsythe Designs Inc.

In a small claims court ruling issued Monday, Edgartown district clerk/magistrate Liza H. Williamson ordered Mrs. Pendergraft’s company, Holiday Public Relations & Events, to pay Ms. Forsythe $7,000 plus court costs.

Ms. Forsythe said she was contracted by Holiday to work on the Network of Neighbors Web site, and was never paid for the work.

Mrs. Pendergraft claimed that she was only an employee of the Holiday company and thus had no personal liability. In a motion to dismiss, she claimed that Ms. Forsythe had a business relationship with Holiday employee Lisa Reynolds, and not Mrs. Pendergraft. But the clerk/magistrate found otherwise and denied the motion.

“Based on credible evidence presented at trial, the court finds that Lisa Reynolds and Danielle Pendergraft are one and the same,” Ms. Williamson wrote in the finding this week.

Mrs. Pendergraft, who moved to the Island from Texas about two years ago, is at the center of a small storm of controversy surrounding her dealings with the nonprofit Network of Neighbors Web site, based on the Vineyard. Holiday recently filed a lawsuit in Texas district court against the nonprofit claiming breach of contract and requesting $43,000 for work allegedly performed by Mrs. Pendergraft. The Web site’s founders Squire Rushnell and Louise DuArt of Edgartown rejected the claims as frivolous and said Mrs. Pendergraft, a former member of the board for Network of Neighbors, had failed to disclose a prior federal criminal record for fraud. Federal court records show Mrs. Pendergraft, who then was named Danielle Pauline Ravitch, pleaded guilty in 1996 to nine federal charges in connection with the use of false Social Security numbers.

An earlier dispute between Holiday Public Relations and the Edgartown Library Foundation ended in a settlement.

It is unclear at this juncture whether Mrs. Pendergraft is still living on the Island.