Hallgate Is Cleared of Its Junked Cars

Edgartown Officials Tour Subdivision, and Are Pleased After Year's Effort; Now, the Lot Next Door

By MANDY LOCKE

It was a moment Edgartown officials doubted would ever come.

Town leaders peered down the narrow dirt drive winding through Hallgate Wednesday morning, and for the first time in more than three years, saw only shards of glass where mounds of junk cars once rusted.

Walter Cronkite, who has for months publicly opposed the Cape Wind project being proposed for Nantucket Sound, yesterday announced he has reconsidered - and his commercials on the subject will be withdrawn from the airwaves. Mr. Cronkite said he now prefers to be a more objective observer of both the process and project.

Opposition to this project, he said, "may be premature."

County Makes Offer on Manager's Post

By ALEXIS TONTI

Dukes County commissioners last night offered the job of county manager to E. Winn Davis, executive secretary of the town of Hanson. In his return visit to the Island, Mr. Davis described himself as a consensus builder who believes that Dukes County can set a positive example for county government across the commonwealth.

Long-Time Chief of Tribe Is Dead

Donald F. Malonson Led Wampanoags for Half Century

Donald F. Malonson, chief of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), died peacefully at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston on Friday, August 22, after a long illness. Mr. Malonson, also known as Chief Running Deer, was the ceremonial leader of the tribe for more than half a century.

New Vision for the Hospital

Architect Suggests Replacement at Current Site; Three Stories Would Be Built in Phases; Estimate Is $30 Million

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Picture this: A spanking new three-story building that houses a state-of-the-art diagnostic center and a modern emergency room, a "green" building that is efficient and easy on the environment, a therapeutic place that is at once a holistic healing center and a hub for health care on the Vineyard.

Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven and West Tisbury town officials received their marching orders this month - recommendations for steps these I