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.

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.