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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Fund Assists Students With Hardship

Chris Burrell
The raised letters on the silver badge Kaleena Strelecki wears to work most days says Tisbury Police, but you could make an argument that this traffic cop who just graduated from the Martha's Vineyard Regional High school has earned some other badges as well.
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First in Class: Eric Herman Is His Own Man

Chris Burrell
Eric Herman sits down Tuesday at a booth in Linda Jean's Restaurant in Oak Bluffs for a lunch of chicken fingers and French fries, and admits a half-hour later that his stomach is still a bit topsy-turvy.
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Wampanoags Seek High Court Delay

Chris Burrell
Leaders of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) now have until July 2 to decide whether they will try to convince the United States Supreme Court to hear their appeal of the much-watched case over tribal sovereignty.
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