Patti Linn is no assembly line businesswoman. At her hair salon in West Tisbury, she offers in-house, one-on-one service — some coloring and highlights, but she specializes in simple cuts.
Last Saturday was Holiday Party Day on the Vineyard — with art openings and dances scheduled from one end of the Island to the other.
And Maggie’s Salon on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven was a busy place.
The three stylists behind the chairs flitted and chatted their way between cuts, blow-dries and colorings. Each worked with two customers at once, except for Richard Cascarino, who groomed a family of three.
Ongoing concerns about density were aired last week during a public hearing on a plan to replace the existing one-story Wave Lengths hair salon building on Upper Main street in Edgartown with a three-story mixed-use residential commercial building, and to build another three-story residential building in the parking lot behind it.
Rosemary Gambino, owner of Rosecuts Salon on Causeway Road in Vineyard Haven, is spearheading a Vineyard effort to collect hair, fur and wool trimmings and nylons to aid in the cleanup of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has spewed millions of gallons of crude oil since the April 20 explosion.
