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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Hospital Trustees Seek to Resolve Rising Trouble

Chris Burrell
Three weeks after a leading surgeon at Martha's Vineyard Hospital submitted his resignation, hospital board trustees devoted an entire press conference to the matter, also releasing new letters, from both the surgeon and a group of doctors, that paint a picture of souring relations between hospital leadership and the medical staff.
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Inmates Turn Creative Skills to Mosaic Art

Chris Burrell
It's probably not what any jail warden expected an art class to look like: inmates wrapping sheets of glass and whole plates in a towel and then smashing them to bits. Depending on how you looked at it, the razorlike shards were either a huge security risk or an innovative art material critical for making mosaics.
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West Tisbury Resolves Bus Controversy; Up-Island Cronig's Market Acts as Depot

Chris Burrell
Just a few weeks ago, Vineyard transit officials decided the North Tisbury business district would be the perfect place to relocate their bus transfer hub and put an end to all those complaints about buses ruining the historic character of West Tisbury village. All they needed was a good-sized patch of blacktop in the business district.
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West Tisbury Resolves Bus Controversy; Up-Island Cronig's Market Acts as Depot

Chris Burrell
Just a few weeks ago, Vineyard transit officials decided the North Tisbury business district would be the perfect place to relocate their bus transfer hub and put an end to all those complaints about buses ruining the historic character of West Tisbury village. All they needed was a good-sized patch of blacktop in the business district.
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West Tisbury Resolves Bus Controversy; Up-Island Cronig's Market Acts as Depot

Chris Burrell
Just a few weeks ago, Vineyard transit officials decided the North Tisbury business district would be the perfect place to relocate their bus transfer hub and put an end to all those complaints about buses ruining the historic character of West Tisbury village. All they needed was a good-sized patch of blacktop in the business district.
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