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.
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.
