Business
For the past 10 years, Dr. Raymond (Rocco) Monto’s morning commute has been out of the ordinary.
Three times a week the orthopedic surgeon, one of just two on Martha’s Vineyard and the only one on Nantucket, drops off youngest son Rocco at school while daughter Siena boards a bus to Nantucket Elementary (older sons Alex and Nick are at Cape Cod Academy and the University of Connecticut, respectively).
The silver linen trousers aren’t right. Stina Sayre walks around her sales assistant Laura Entner, who at this moment is the living mannequin for the offending trousers. Stina, who is impeccably dressed in one of her chocolate brown long shearling vests draped over a navy tissue long-sleeved tee, pinches and pulls the fabric, fretting out loud.
Coming this spring, a place to get bubble tea along with a manicure, a latte to pair with your haircut.
And perhaps most important, words that will be music to the ears of Islanders: another year-round coffee shop.
Jay and Mindy Kirwin, who operate Pure Touch salon at the Harborside Inn on South Water street in Edgartown, are branching out into the coffee business. The two will open the Tocco Puro (pure touch in Italian) coffee shop this spring, with an opening date between April 15 and May 1.
Tom Hallahan of Oak Bluffs has been named a sales associate at Kelleher Real Estate Services. Mr. Hallahan will handle both sales and rental transactions for the firm. A member of the Island community for more than 30 years, he has held leadership roles with the Vineyard Playhouse, the Oak Bluffs School Advisory Committee and the Possible Dreams Auction Committee, and was recently appointed chairman of the Dukes County Commissioners. He was awarded a Case Fellowship from Harvard University and a Fulbright Scholar Award to the University of Jordan.
BJ Yerdon has been promoted to sales manager for the Vineyard Gazette Media Group, company publisher Jane Seagrave announced this week.
Ms. Yerdon has been in advertising sales at the Gazette since May 2001. Prior to that, she owned her own company, Maine Sports Posters, which produced calendars for high schools and colleges throughout New England.
