The sudden resignation of county manager E. Winn Davis last week was followed by a noticeable atmosphere of calm and quiet this week.
Mr. Davis read his letter of resignation during a tense county commission meeting last Wednesday that included a nearly two-hour executive session and an accusation from one commissioner that a subgroup of commissioners had somehow influenced Mr. Davis to resign.
Embattled Dukes County manager E. Winn Davis formally resigned his post on Wednesday.
Following a tense county commission meeting that included a nearly two-hour executive session, the county manager, who has come under fire in recent weeks for a failed gambit to use federal disaster funds to repair the breach at Norton Point beach, read a brief letter announcing his resignation effective Sept. 14.
In a small island community known for its largely dissent-free brand of government, the Gosnold annual town meeting Monday promises to be more of the same.
Gosnold town officials this week said this year's town meeting warrant has no real hot-button issues. All 11 articles on the warrant appear to be largely pedestrian at first reading, which seems to be the norm in this town that includes the six Elizabeth Islands and is the seventh town in Dukes County.
Edgartown Selectmen Lead Initiative to Join Ocean Wind Turbine Proposal
By MIKE SECCOMBE
With Edgartown in the lead, the Vineyard is poised to join with Nantucket and Cong. William Delahunt in pushing for the establishment of an offshore energy zone to harness wind, wave and possibly tidal energy from waters between the two Islands.
The move is a first step toward the goal of making the Islands energy independent.
A fisherman checking on his boat in Edgartown Harbor made a grisly discovery Monday when he found a dead body on a small stretch of beach at the end of Morse street.
The fisherman first alerted Edgartown police of the discovery at 4:16 p.m. The body was reportedly male and found face down on the beach, surrounded by broken branches and beach grass uprooted up by the powerful storm that hit the Island this week.
Kerry Scott, the incumbent selectman who campaigned for reelection on a platform of continued reform and openness in town government, easily defeated challenger Mac Starks during the annual town elections yesterday to win a second three-year term on the five-member board.
Ms. Scott received a total of 608 votes; Mr. Starks received 293 votes.
Total turnout on a rainy, windswept day was 972, or about 30 per cent of the registered voters.