Business
Gas
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of Apr. 15:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil $2.699 Depot Corner $2.699
Edgartown Mobil $2.759
Oak Bluffs
deBettencourt’s $2.659
Jim’s $2.679
Vineyard Haven
Citgo $2.659
Tisbury Shell $2.699
West Tisbury
Up-Island Automotive $2.559
Menemsha
Menemsha Texaco $2.599
Oak Bluffs business owner Dana Hughes is fascinated with smart marketing. “Like fantastic window displays, things people will remember ... in this economy, you have to have somebody remember you. That’s hard to do,” said the owner of Hair by Dana, one of the anchor year-round businesses on Circuit avenue for 15 years, shortly after she closed her shop in mid March.
Plymouth Rock Studios, a $500-million film and television studio complex scheduled to open in 2010 in Plymouth, has selected Hurd Publishing of Oak Bluffs to produce the company’s quarterly publication, Plymouth Rock Studios Magazine. The publication will report on studio plans and events and on Massachusetts as an up-and-coming film venue. The first issue is due out in June. It will be distributed to members of Hollywood’s Producers Guild of America and to major East Coast hotels.
The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding local businesses that Economic Injury Disaster Loans are still available to small businesses economically impacted by the fire in Tisbury that occurred on July 4, 2008.
“Businesses that suffered economic losses as a result of the disaster and want to apply for low-interest loans from the SBA are urged to do so before the May 15 deadline,” said Frank Skaggs, director of SBA Field Operations Center East.
Gas
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of Apr. 7:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil $2.699 Depot Corner $2.699
Edgartown Mobil $2.759
Oak Bluffs
deBettencourt’s $2.659
Jim’s $2.679
Vineyard Haven
Citgo $2.629
Tisbury Shell $2.659
West Tisbury
Up-Island Automotive $2.609
Menemsha
Menemsha Texaco $2.599
Massachusetts state average (source: AAA) $1.981
Grocery Basket
The Mediterranean has relocated to 15 Island Inn Road in Oak Bluffs and will reopen April 10. The new location nearly doubles the restaurant’s current capacity, easily accommodating over 200 guests and offering expanded outdoor seating, live entertainment and dancing, ample parking, full-service catering and banquet facilities.