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.

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.

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.

Martha's Vineyard Commission Responds to Technical Problems

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Amid a ripple of allegations about possible open meeting law violations on two separate fronts, leaders at the Martha's Vineyard Commission this week turned to their attorney for help.

Eric Wodlinger, a partner at Choate Hall & Stewart in Boston, recommended that the commission follow the advice of the Cape and Islands district attorney and take a second vote on the written decision for the Down Island Golf club plan.