Business
By SARA BROWN
When David and Ann LeBreton reflect on their 10 years as owners of Edgartown Books, the front porch of the Main street bookstore looms large.
Low-fat is not part of the vocabulary at the Savory Pie Company.
“I’ve had people ask me if I had any low-fat and I look at them like you’ve got to be kidding me,” owner Dee Smith said at her Tea Lane Catering kitchen in Chilmark this week. “There’s a need for gluten free and we’re just starting with that, but there’s certainly no word like low-fat in our category of pies.”
The paper lanterns at Menemsha Café will go dark Friday night, marking the abrupt end of the Basin Road restaurant’s short but successful run. Chef and owner Josh Aronie said he was forced to close shop after being presented with an unacceptable lease. “We’re closing because we have to, not because we’re going out of business,” he said. “This is not because of economic reasons.
Every piece is different, even the socks.
That’s been the rule at In the Woods for the past 27 years, the eclectic woodcraft, rug, furniture, cooking wares and knickknack store in Edgartown. The store has stocked everything from woven wool socks from Afghanistan to sets of Noah’s Ark crafted in the backwoods of Maine. But at the end of the month the doors will close for good.
It’s the quiet season now but it was hardly quiet at Bramhall & Dunn on Main street Vineyard Haven yesterday, where the phone was ringing off the hook. And there was Emily Bramhall herself answering, slightly breathless from so many calls, this time from a reporter.
Plum TV, the lifestyle cable television network targeting the Island and seven other upscale vacation communities, abruptly laid off much of its workforce this week including the entire Vineyard staff in what is being called a major restructuring of the company.