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Edgartown attorney Edward W. (Peter) Vincent Jr. was suspended from practicing law on Thursday, following complaints of misuse and loss of client funds.
The suspension was issued in Supreme Judicial Court in Suffolk County on July 7.
The temporary suspension will stay in effect until disciplinary procedures are heard before the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. The next step would be the filing of charges with the board, which has the power to disbar attorneys.
Walter Cronkite embodied words like integrity, honesty and leadership. For many years he was referred to as the most trusted man in America. In this spirit the Stone Soup Leadership Institute created the Walter Cronkite Awards to celebrate others who, like Mr. Cronkite, work to make the world a better place.
The Stone Soup Leadership Institute develops educational tools and programs to prepare young people to become leaders of a more sustainable world. Mr. Cronkite was their honorary chairperson for nearly a decade.
By PETER BRANNEN
Clarence A. (Trip) Barnes 3rd will have to clean up his yard. Last week the town of West Tisbury learned it had won a long-running case against the colorful businessman over the alleged junk yard forming at Mr. Barnes’s State Road home.
“It’s no longer alleged,” said town administrator Jennifer Rand at Wednesday’s selectmen’s meeting.
Edgartown selectmen this week cited the Harbor View Hotel for serving alcohol to a minor on the Fourth of July.
At their weekly meeting Monday selectmen discussed a report from the West Tisbury police who had pulled over a 19-year-old Connecticut man on July 4 and charged him with operating under the influence of alcohol. Police said the minor, who failed a breathalyzer test, reported he had been served at the hotel along with his passenger, and neither had been asked for proof of age.
The investigation into state competitive bidding law violations in Oak Bluffs has ended. Town counsel Ronald H. Rappaport told the selectmen this week that he did not feel it was a good use of the town’s resources in light of the changed behavior and tight finances.
A 10-year-old won this year’s annual fluke fishing contest, held last weekend. Nathaniel Packer, of Tisbury, caught a 10.1-pound fluke which more than eclipsed anything caught by the 139 other participants in this year’s contest. Youth, persistence and luck overshadowed age and experience when it came to the grand prize.