A political unknown is trying to topple two incumbents for a seat on the board of selectmen in Oak Bluffs. Mark Alwardt, a shingler with no experience in town politics, is hoping to tap into the voter discontent in town and go straight to the top board.
Labor Board Hears Testimony on Union
Hearings Are Held to Determine Whether Union Vote at Community Services Should Be Narrow or Broad
By MANDY LOCKE
After two full days of testimony before the National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) in Boston last week to determine which Martha's
Vineyard Community Services employees may vote to unionize, the
administration and Island Counseling Center petitioners for a union
reached no agreement.
Massive Warrant for Annual Meeting Confronts Edgartown Voters
Tuesday
By MANDY LOCKE
Edgartown voters will face 70 articles - dense with pages
worth of zoning regulation proposals - at their annual town
meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Old Whaling Church.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
