From Owen Park to the Lagoon Pond drawbridge, decades old, family-run businesses pepper the Vineyard Haven waterfront. The architecture is haphazard, but that is perhaps Vineyard Haven’s charm — plus it’s rare for any town today to look much the same as it did 50 years ago.

Timothy Moriarty has joined the West Tisbury law office of George B. Brush as an associate attorney.

After years of recession and national economic decline, the audience at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Thursday was perhaps hoping for some good news from the three renowned economists speaking that night. There was little to go around.

On Tuesday morning the new cafe and marketplace Rosewater opened at 20 South Summer street in Edgartown after five months of development. The store includes several areas for eating, both inside and outside, as well as grocery items. There are also plans for a catering business.

This summer on the Island, many of the college students who are taking orders, collecting eggs and folding T-shirts hail from much farther away than mainland, USA. Eastern European college students are increasingly seen filling the summer employment ranks, thanks to programs that sponsor foreign students for J-1 Visas.