Lieutenant Now Runs Police Force
Theodore Saulnier Takes Leadership Role in Tisbury
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Just seven months into his tenure at the Tisbury police department,
Lieut. Theodore A. (Ted) Saulnier is the man in charge. After the
resignation of John McCarthy as police chief a week ago, the board of
selectmen instructed Lieutenant Saulnier to perform the duties of the
former chief.
Lieutenant Saulnier, 40, spoke with the Gazette Wednesday in the
chief's office at the station on the harbor in Tisbury.
In the last 25 years, only one person has unseated an incumbent
selectman in West Tisbury. Her name is Cynthia Mitchell, and she beat
Fred Fisher back in 1990. Now she's the one fighting to keep her
chair for a fifth term on the board of selectmen. Intriguingly, a
central issue in this race turns out to be Steamship Authority politics
rather than a village issue.
When the regional high school Minnesingers traveled to Lithuania
last year, they were warmly received by their host school, the
Lithuanian Youth Centre in the capital city of Vilnius. This year the
Vineyard community returned the favor, inviting a group of singers from
the renowned Versme choir from the school at Vilnius for a week-long
visit to the Vineyard.
Young Voices Invite Cheers of Our Island
By NIS KILDEGAARD
When the regional high school Minnesingers traveled to Lithuania
last year, they were warmly received by their host school, the
Lithuanian Youth Centre in the capital city of Vilnius. This year the
Vineyard community returned the favor, inviting a group of singers from
the renowned Versme choir from the school at Vilnius for a week-long
visit to the Vineyard.
Getting out was hard.
When Tisbury and Edgartown voted to withdraw from the Martha's Vineyard Commission in the late 1970s, what followed was a procedural and political tangle that went on for years.
In Tisbury, the fight was over the second slip for the Steamship Authority. In Edgartown, it was about the rules for the coastal district of critical planning concern.
By the time both towns rejoined the commission in 1984, the tumult had died down, deep political divisions had faded and few people remembered what the fight had been all about in the first place.
For the last two years, as battles raged over whether a private golf club should be built in the southern woodlands in Oak Bluffs, voters in town have watched elected officials make all the decisions.
Martha's Vineyard Commission Responds to Technical Problems
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Amid a ripple of allegations about possible open meeting law
violations on two separate fronts, leaders at the Martha's
Vineyard Commission this week turned to their attorney for help.
Eric Wodlinger, a partner at Choate Hall & Stewart in Boston,
recommended that the commission follow the advice of the Cape and
Islands district attorney and take a second vote on the written decision
for the Down Island Golf club plan.
Tisbury Police Chief Agrees to Accord on Retirement; Resigns Post
After 29 Years
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Tisbury chief of police John McCarthy reached an agreement with the
town board of selectmen on Monday, resigning from the force after almost
29 years of service.
Hockey Team Romps to State Championship
By JOSHUA SABATINI
By the time the boys' varsity hockey team returned home from
Boston's Fleet Center on the 7:45 p.m. ferry Sunday -
fittingly, the M/V Martha's Vineyard - the word had spread:
They were the Division II state champions.
West Tisbury this week became the second Island town to embrace a
pact that preserves the north shore's natural state, ensuring that
it remains virtually free of piers, docks and groins.
