Owners of the Edgar Hotel are looking to convert a large, unoccupied residential house on Edgartown’s Upper Main street into a 19-room inn.

The Harbor Landing Hotel in Vineyard Haven had to be evacuated Thursday night after a fuse short-circuited and filled the lobby of the building with smoke.

It’s been a bust-and-boom year for the summer rental, hotel and lodging business on the Island, after an early wave of mass cancellations.

Reeling from the devastating economic impacts of the pandemic, innkeepers from Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket have joined forces to write a letter Gov. Charlie Baker seeking guidance.

Abigail (Abby) Gardner took over as the Hob Knob Hotel’s general manager effective Nov. 1.

From the grande dame Harbor View Hotel Edgartown to the pastoral Lambert’s Cove Inn in West Tisbury, more than half a dozen hotels changed ownership on Martha’s Vineyard last year.

Early signs suggest another busy summer season with strong advance ferry reservations and a surge of hotel and rental bookings.

The historic Edgartown Inn was sold to Milton-based real-estate investor and hotelier Charles C. Hajjar for $5 million.

The inn on Upper Main street in Edgartown changed hands late last week for $8 million. The sellers are longtime owners James and Deborah Carter.

The owners of the Nobnocket Boutique Inn offer fresh inspiration with their contemporary update to a traditional building.