In a deal sealed in June, Oak Bluffs selectmen handed their police chief, Joseph C. Carter, a one-time check for $67,882 in overtime pay, almost equal to his current annual salary of $70,000.

Call It Evolve

Rosabeth Kanter Weaves Big Ideas Into a New Book

By JULIA WELLS

The book lecture was about to begin, and suddenly Rosabeth Moss Kanter, celebrated author and star of the event, spotted a friend in the front row. Against a backdrop of the grand Stanley Murphy murals in the Katharine Cornell Theatre, hugs were exchanged, lipstick smudged. "I had a big idea the other day - a very big idea - I'll tell you about it," Ms. Kanter said.

It was a classic Rosabeth moment.

Oak Bluffs police say former Tisbury selectman A. Kirk Briggs was driving drunk just before midnight Tuesday when his 1989 Chevy pickup truck hit a 25-year-old woman from Estonia who was walking her bicycle along New York avenue just west of Our Market.

"Teenagers," said Dr. Robert Millman, a professor of public health and psychiatry at Cornell University, "have a basic and profound fear of the future. They don't know if they'll make it. The message is you make it if you're tough enough; otherwise, you fail."

Golf Course Hearings Loom

Ethics Commission Clears MVC Members of Conflict

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

In a clean sweep that leaves the 21-member Martha's Vineyard Commission intact for an intensive development review of the Down Island Golf Club project, the state ethics commission has cleared five members of the commission of conflict of interest.

"I've been cleared," said commission member James Athearn yesterday.

Festival Orchestra Plays to Applause of Crowd

By MANDY LOCKE

When the light of the setting sun - streaming through the stained glass windows above the stage of the Tabernacle - erased all but the outline of the Martha's Vineyard Festival Orchestra, the audience suspected that something special was about to happen.