Island House & Yard is changing its name to Fullers on May 1. Other than the name change, Fullers landscaping will continue with business as usual. Started in 1997 by Jesse and Luciana Fuller as a small lawn mowing and house cleaning company, the company has expanded over the years into one of the Island’s premier landscape construction and residential-commercial cleaning companies.

Cape Air will begin direct service between Martha’s Vineyard and New York June 12, starting with a daily flight between West Tisbury and White Plains Airport in Westchester County.

The airline is ready to increase the number of flights per day at any time if demand is there, according to director of communications Michelle Haynes. “We will add planes, no question, if people want this and are going to do it,” she said. The service is set to continue through Sept. 28. As of Wednesday, 26 seats had been sold on the route.

Gas

Prices for regular unleaded gas as of Apr. 22:

Edgartown

Airport Mobil $2.699

Depot Corner $2.699

Edgartown Mobil $2.759

Oak Bluffs

deBettencourt’s $2.719

Jim’s $2.679

Vineyard Haven

Citgo $2.679

Tisbury Shell $2.699

West Tisbury

Up-Island Automotive $2.609

Menemsha

Menemsha Texaco $2.599

Squash Meadow Construction Inc. will be building green homes on the Vineyard. Owner Bill Potter recently passed the LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for new construction exam, making him a LEED accredited professional. With the certification, Squash Meadow Construction INC. of Oak Bluffs is now available to build green residential and commercial buildings according to the LEED point system. This process ensures an environmentally sustainable structure with the smallest possible carbon footprint.

Farm Grants Announced

The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society has announced its 2009 grant awards. Breezy Pines Farms will receive $400 for seed and soil; the Farm Institute will receive $1,000 for a mobile hen house; Down Island Farm will receive $1,000 for herb, berry and nut production; Glenn Jackson will receive $1,000 for fencing and a small hoop house; Vineyard Open Land Foundation will receive $750 toward their organic cranberry bog weeding project; the Whiting Farm will receive $850 for pastured poultry equipment.

The Martha’s Vineyard Museum has temporarily suspended its capital campaign which began six years ago with a price tag of $35 million, as a job search begins to replace executive director Keith Gorman.

He will step down at the end of the coming summer after just over a year on the job.

“It’s a family thing,” said Mr. Gorman this week, who has commuted for four years between the Vineyard and North Carolina where his wife Cheryl Roberts studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.