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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Aquatic Center Cost Jumps

Chris Burrell
Backers of a plan to build a community swimming pool are suffering from sticker shock, having learned last month that the 38,500-square-foot complex would cost $8.85 million to construct, nearly twice the amount projected in a study done six years ago.
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Papa's Pizza Leaves Leftover Memories

Chris Burrell
Before Sheila and Charlie Flathers sat down for dinner and a couple of cold beers at Papa's Pizza Wednesday night, they seriously pondered over the specials that weren't on the menu - a thick wooden table for $120 or a chair for 15 bucks.
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Family of Ducks Offers Sanity to Town in Chaos

Chris Burrell
Pile drivers and backhoes have been rumbling just a hundred yards away, but the wild ducks on Sunset Lake in Oak Bluffs aren't budging. The fact is, while the streets in this town have been turned inside out with pipes, pumps and grinders to make way for a new sewer system, it's the ducks that appear to rule the road.
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West Tisbury Faces School Budget Mess

Chris Burrell
West Tisbury voters fed up with rising taxes sent a message last week at annual town meeting when they reduced their town's share of the Up-Island Regional School budget by $250,000. That message, though, is about to be stamped return-to-sender.
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