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.

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.

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.

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.

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.