Business
Bill Croke Joins Firm
Bill Croke has joined Hughes & J.C. Murphy Real Estate in Edgartown as a sales associate.
A seasonal homeowner for more than 20 years, Mr. Croke recently relocated to the Island with his wife Joan, the owner and manager of a successful event management firm.
In the wake of the devastating Independence Day fire that destroyed Café Moxie and badly damaged the Bunch of Grapes bookstore, the U.S. Small Business Administration has made emergency low-interest loans available to small businesses across the Island that were negatively affected by the blaze.
25 years marks a silver anniversary. But after spending nearly a quarter century at the microphone, Barbara Dacey’s memories are colored gold. “She was dressed beautifully. She was wearing this big hat and walked into the door in a way that was very dramatic,” said Ms. Dacey, the curly-haired woman who first knocked on the Vineyard Haven doors of radio station 92.7 FM herself in 1981.
The day was expected to draw a crowd in the thousands — and it did — but inside Ocean Park on Sunday, large swaths of grass were visible and vending booths were quiet at the second annual Martha’s Vineyard Festival. Outside the park, however, sidewalks and house porches were jammed.
Edgartown Realtor Elected
To Cape, Islands Board
Bill LeRoyer, co-owner and principal broker of Harborside Realty Inc. of Edgartown, has been elected to the board of directors of the Cape Cod and Islands Association of Realtors.
The professional association is made up of member real estate offices located on Cape Cod, the Vineyard and Nantucket and is the local chapter of the National Association of Realtors, which has more than one million members in the United States.
Up in West Tisbury, past the airport but before the Mill Pond, is a small building. A part of both Island and national history, it serves as a social and cultural melting pot and a way to track economic trends. It is the Lillian Manter Memorial Hostel and, on a recent Tuesday morning shortly after 10 a.m., every bed was booked, but not a guest was around. The hot July sun was out and the groups of bikers and summer campers, the travellers from Canada and Germany and the friends shacked up in the one private room were all off exploring the Island.