Business
Prepare yourself before meeting organic beef farmer Scott Lively. You may never want to eat fast food again.
“So you put the trim into a tray, dump the tray into a bucket, and every few hours that bucket gets turned into a bag of meat,” explains Mr. Lively, describing the journey of a hamburger from barn to bun. Trim refers to any and all off-cuts from the animal, once the more favorable parts have been extracted.
Even on Martha’s Vineyard, where art gallery openings are reliably free of suits and swanky dresses, it is still uncommon for an opening to draw a sizeable crowd clad in bathing suits — sunbathers literally on the way home from the beach. And rarer still for a bank to open its lawn on a Friday evening, after business hours, to play host. Yet bare-footed art openings at the Chilmark branch of the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard have been a regular occurrence for at least 30 years.
A generation ago, Plum TV would have been impossible and the concept likely considered insane by conventional business thinking.
Carrie White Named Director of Support Services
In early September, Carrie White joined the staff of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services as director of the Women’s Support Services program.
Ms. White joins staff members Sally Callahan and Erika Dowling in providing domestic violence and rape crisis support services.
Shareholders, Corporators
Approve Bank Merger
Shareholders of The Martha’s Vineyard Co-operative Bank and corporators of Dukes County Savings Bank have approved plans for the two institutions to merge, bank officials announced.
Ken Lay believes that simple is best.