The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $170,960 for the business week ending on Friday, June 14, 2013. The land bank receives its funds from a two per cent fee charged on many Vineyard real estate transactions.

Edgartown School students joined town and library officials Monday to celebrate the first visible marker of Edgartown’s new library: a sign announcing the beginning of the project.
A group of students from kindergarten, first grade and third grade at the school posed for a picture in front of a sign that says: “Watch your new library being built here.” The sign is in front of the old brick Edgartown School, which will be demolished this summer to make way for the new library.

Improved cell phone service will becoming to West Tisbury after the town zoning board of appeals approved a special permit for a tower off New Lane, near Tisbury Great Pond.

The board approved a 66 foot monopine for Verizon at their monthly meeting last Thursday, board chairman Tucker Hubbell said. The monopine will have fiberglass branches and a pole painted brown to resemble a pine tree.

Benjamin Hopkins of Vineyard Haven was named to the dean’s list, high honors, and Shaelah Huntington of West Tisbury was named to the dean’s list, honors, for the spring 2013 semester at Connecticut College.
 

John R. Wadleigh of Vineyard Haven was named to the spring 2013 dean’s list at St. Michael’s College in Burlington, Vt. John is the son of Kimberly Morris-Wadleigh and Ralph Wadleigh.
 

For some, it was a business evening; for others, a chance to rub elbows with the who’s-who of the Island community. Whether they came to collect awards or simply enjoy the festivities, crowds packed Flatbread Monday night for the unveiling of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine’s Best of the Vineyard.

Todd Ruggere sat by himself at the bar of the Plane View Restaurant at Martha’s Vineyard Airport. Normally his visits cause quite a stir, but it was a Wednesday afternoon and nobody knew he was coming ­— he just needed a place to get a beer.

Mr. Ruggere is touring the state of Massachusetts and drinking a beer in each of the 351 towns, all in under a year.

Kimberly and Derek Whitehead of Milford, N.H. announce the birth of a daughter, Marly Evelyn Whitehead, born on June 15 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Marly weighed 9 pounds, 7 ounces at birth. She joins big sisters Kyra and Isabelle.

A Vineyard organization devoted to spaying and neutering feral cats will be closing its feral cat shelter at the end of the year.

Laurie Huff, the founder of Cattrap Inc., said the organization will lose its lease on a barn sheltering rescued feral cats in December. Cattrap is scrambling to find homes for some of the 15 to 20 cats, now semi-feral, who call the barn home, including Holiday, a friendly calico who was found with a distended colon; Frasier, a big black cat who lived under a porch, and Misty from Katama.

Dr. Donald M. Berwick, a Chilmark summer resident and former Obama administration official, announced Monday that he will run for governor in 2014.
The pediatrician, former Harvard professor and one-time temporary administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, spoke on the Vineyard last summer at a forum on health care.