Chris Burrell

Children Meet Racism on Tisbury Side Street

Chris Burrell |

Two young girls from New Jersey got their first exposure to overt racism this week when they returned from a morning walk into downtown Vineyard Haven and found a racial slur spray-painted in letters two feet tall in the street by the house their family was renting at Clough Lane and Pine street.

Tisbury police are investigating the vandalism that happened Wednesday — possibly in broad daylight — and police chief John McCarthy is looking into whether the incident should be considered a hate crime.

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Islanders Sell Out and Become Commuters

Chris Burrell
They were born and raised on the Vineyard, owned their own homes and had full-time jobs here. Then one day a couple years ago, Sharon Amaral and Shirley Fauteux each arrived at the same decision: Sell their houses, cash out and move to the Cape.
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Skunk Population Sees Drop; Wildlife Experts Debate Cause

Chris Burrell
It's the dinner hour on Tuesday night, and Luanne Johnson is tromping through poison ivy and switch grass on the duney hills of Aquinnah's north shore, holding a fold-out antenna in one hand, a receiver in the other and hoping she will find her quarry: a skunk named Pua.
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Record $20 Million in Pledges Jump Starts Hospital Campaign

Chris Burrell
One year after unveiling plans for the costliest construction project and most ambitious fund-raising goal in Vineyard history, leaders at the Martha\'s Vineyard Hospital announced this week that they have amassed a stunning $20 million in pledged donations, nearly half the $42 million needed to build a new hospital at the Linton Lane campus in Oak Bluffs.
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