28 Dark Woods Road in Edgartown sold for $810,000 on August 17, 2012

As the calender flips toward fall, heralding the end of summer and what are some are calling a profitable season, local business leaders want people to know that there is life past Labor Day. There are hotel rooms and cottages to be had (at cheaper rates), and books to buy for cooler but quieter days at the beach.

“We almost don’t want to let them know about the secret of September,” said Sarah Nixon, the owner of the Menemsha Inn, the Beach Plum Inn, and the Home Port restaurant in Chilmark.

Though the Island’s religious leaders have often engaged in interfaith dialogue before and collaborated to lead interfaith services, it’s rare that Islanders and visitors get to hear the perspective of a Muslim leader. On Wednesday, August 29, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder and leader of the Cordoba Initiative in New York city, will speak with Rabbi Caryn Broitman before an audience at the Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.

A floating raft of plants and flowers bobs atop a pond, quietly removing excess nitrogen.

This is the surface of an aquatic restorer — one of John Todd’s many alternative clean water solutions he described to shellfish constables, harbor masters and others at the Tisbury senior center Thursday evening, in a talk hosted by Tisbury Waterways Inc.

A video showing a dispute between a Republican Party videographer and a cab driver for Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren made the rounds on the Internet Monday, with state Republicans calling the incident “unacceptable” and Ms. Warren’s campaign denouncing the confrontation and saying the driver was not affiliated with the campaign.

A contract clearing the way for on-Island health care for veterans was signed Monday by the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., bringing a lengthy wait much closer to an end.

There was neither ribbon nor cutting at Cronig’s in Vineyard Haven last Friday morning, but rather two parts uniting, as Paul Pimentel of Edgartown plugged his all-electric Nissan Leaf into a charging station beneath the solar canopies in the grocery store’s parking lot.

20 Pilgrim Road in Edgartown sold for $240,438 on August 14.

Cape Wind, the controversial 130 turbine project slated for construction in Nantucket Sound, announced last week that it will purchase property in Falmouth Harbor for its operations headquarters.

Meanwhile, the wind farm’s opposition continued its fight against the project in court.

The Island has the second lowest seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate in the state, according to recent data released by the state’s executive office of labor and workforce development. The office reports that the Tisbury labor market area, which includes all six Island towns, had a seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate of 3.8 per cent in July, while the state average was 6.6 per cent. Statewide, Nantucket had the lowest unemployment rate for July, calculated to be 2.9 per cent.