Dan Hanavan in Tisbury and Dan Rossi in West Tisbury have announced plans to retire, leaving vacancies in the top police job in two of the six Island towns.
Sgt. Timothy Stobie’s last shift wasn’t eventful. He didn’t arrest anybody. He didn’t ride the motorcycle. It was a quiet end to over three decades of service on the Tisbury police department.
After meeting behind closed doors for nearly three hours Wednesday night, Tisbury selectmen remained mum on the outcome of a disciplinary hearing for a longtime police officer.
Tisbury police Lieut. Eerik Meisner was appointed as new town emergency services director this week. His recommendation to the post came from town fire chief John Schilling.
Matthew Gamache, 36, was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with attempted murder, domestic assault and battery, intimidation of a witness, 24 counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and possession of an explosive device. A dangerousness hearing is set for Tuesday.