Hospital Board Addresses Forum as CEO Resigns

Quoting legendary college basketball coach John Wooden and
expressing pride at his own accomplishments, Kevin Burchill, the
embattled chief executive officer at the Martha's Vineyard
Hospital, announced last weekend that he will resign.

\\\\\\\"This will offer the hospital the best possible options to
move forward - for everyone,\\\\\\\" Mr. Burchill said in a
prepared statement read at the outset of a community forum on hospital
affairs.

Editorial - Surprisingly Sanguine Outcome

Hospital Board Addresses Forum as CEO Resigns

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Quoting legendary college basketball coach John Wooden and
expressing pride at his own accomplishments, Kevin Burchill, the
embattled chief executive officer at the Martha\\\'s Vineyard
Hospital, announced last weekend that he will resign.

\\\"This will offer the hospital the best possible options to
move forward - for everyone,\\\" Mr. Burchill said in a
prepared statement read at the outset of a community forum on hospital
affairs.

Editorial - On Tuesday's Voting

Hospital Board Addresses Forum as CEO Resigns

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Quoting legendary college basketball coach John Wooden and
expressing pride at his own accomplishments, Kevin Burchill, the
embattled chief executive officer at the Martha\'s Vineyard
Hospital, announced last weekend that he will resign.

\"This will offer the hospital the best possible options to
move forward - for everyone,\" Mr. Burchill said in a
prepared statement read at the outset of a community forum on hospital
affairs.

Hospital Board Addresses Forum as CEO Resigns

Hospital Board Addresses Forum as CEO Resigns

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Quoting legendary college basketball coach John Wooden and
expressing pride at his own accomplishments, Kevin Burchill, the
embattled chief executive officer at the Martha's Vineyard
Hospital, announced last weekend that he will resign.

"This will offer the hospital the best possible options to
move forward - for everyone," Mr. Burchill said in a
prepared statement read at the outset of a community forum on hospital
affairs.

Triage, Not Planning, at Island Hospital

Triage, Not Planning, at Island Hospital

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

The wreckage now includes one chief executive officer, two good
doctors and a dozen Nightingales.

SSA Bill Issued by Committee

SSA Bill Issued by Committee

Joint Committee on Transportation Releases Revised Version of Bill
with Changes to Makeup of Boatline Board

By JULIA WELLS

A legislative bill to reorganize the Steamship Authority board of
governors emerged from the Joint Committee on Transportation this week,
markedly changed and reshaped to put more distance between New Bedford
and the public boat line that is the lifeline to the two Islands.

Oak Bluffs Rejects Eminent Domain Plan; Takes First Step to Break with Commission

The blockbuster special town meeting this week in Oak Bluffs was supposed to chart the future of the southern woodlands, the last undeveloped stretch of land in town.

Lieutenant Now Runs Police Force

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.

Veteran West Tisbury Selectman Faces Heated Election Contest

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.

Young Voices Invite Cheers of Our Island

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.

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