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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Moped Tragedy on Island Mourned and Accepted; Officials Ask for Training

Chris Burrell
The 30-year-old woman killed in last Saturday's moped accident in Oak Bluffs loved to make furniture, especially chests and tables. Kate Dunnet Miller was president of her high school alumni association. "There was a charisma about her, a vibrancy. She was a real extrovert," said her mother-in-law, Dr. Caryn Miller of Washington, D.C.
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Youth Tennis Center Faces Battle

Chris Burrell
Despite winning unanimous approval from the Martha's Vineyard Commission this spring, a plan to build a youth tennis center near the blinker light in Oak Bluffs now faces an uphill battle to win approval at the town level.
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Scientists Probe Rare Tularemia Cases

Chris Burrell
Scientists cast a wide net this week in the search for clues to why a rare disease called tularemia has a foothold on the Vineyard. They drew blood samples from landscapers, dragged for dog ticks and trapped rodents.
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