A senior Tisbury police officer, Sgt. Robert Fiske, has been placed on administrative leave by police chief Daniel Hanavan for the duration of an investigation of his conduct, town officials have confirmed.
Town administrator John Bugbee said yesterday that Sergeant Fiske had been on paid leave since Monday, August 1.
Neither he nor Chief Hanavan would speak about the details of the investigation.
The Steamship Authority is expected to confirm new premises for its Island booking office within the next few weeks.
Boat line general manager Wayne Lamson told the board of governors at their meeting in Hyannis this week that SSA management was considering four potential sites for the relocation of the office, currently operating at the airport business park.
Lawrence Douglas (Doug) Wilder, grandson of slaves, first made history by being elected to the state Senate in Virginia in 1969. In 1986 he took office as lieutenant governor of the state. And in 1989, he became the first African American to be elected a state governor.
His signal success in politics, particularly in a southern state, prompted people to ask, time and time again, if that didn’t show that black people had finally “arrived” in America.
As playwright, theatre and film director George C. Wolfe tells it, the event which first motivated him toward the arts was the same one that led him to his latest ambitious project, presenting the history of the American civil rights movement.
That moment, which set him on his course toward the arts, the plaudits for his stage and screen work, the Tony awards, and now the new job as chief creative officer for the nascent National Center for Civil and Human Rights, came in 1964 when he was a boy of 10, in the small town of Franklin, Ky.
Tisbury will begin assessing $1,000 a day against the contractor for the town’s troubled new emergency services building.
The town selectmen voted without dissent on Tuesday to begin charging penalties against Seaver Construction of Woburn, the general contractor for the Spring street project which has been plagued by an array of problems and is well behind schedule.
The contract between the town and Seaver allowed for the penalties if the project was not completed by July 9.
Margaret Marshall is certainly no Pollyanna, but something about speaking with her kindles optimism.
The former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has a way of looking at things, a calm, reasoned, broad view that leads you gently to accept — at least for awhile — her conclusion that “little by little, things are getting better.”
She likes to take the long view: change for the better is possible if you just keep plugging away at it.
