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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Voters File Eminent Domain Petition After Golf Club Vote

Chris Burrell
Trees all along the perimeter of the southern woodlands in Oak Bluffs are plastered with bright yellow No Trespassing signs. Over at town hall, the town clerk is verifying a petition with more than 250 signatures demanding a vote on whether to take the 270 acres by eminent domain.
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Voters File Eminent Domain Petition After Golf Decision

Chris Burrell
Trees all along the perimeter of the southern woodlands in Oak Bluffs are plastered with bright yellow No Trespassing signs. Over at town hall, the town clerk is verifying a petition with more than 250 signatures demanding a vote on whether to take the 270 acres by eminent domain.
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Oak Bluffs Dog Wins Reprieve in Court

Chris Burrell
A month ago, the death decree for an Oak Bluffs dog implicated in a cat-killing incident was unanimous. But last week, acting on an appeal from the dog's owners, Edgartown district court magistrate Thomas Teller spared the pet's life and overturned the ruling of all five Oak Bluffs selectmen.
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Tularemia Investigation Nears Finish

Chris Burrell
From the start, scientists have viewed the outbreak of tularemia on Martha's Vineyard as an ecological puzzle, never a case of bio-terrorism, despite tularemia's recognized status as a bacteria ideally suited for terrorism.
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