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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...

8:00 pm, April 19, 2001
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Hospital Nursing Home Leaders Report on Moves to Secure Future of Facilities

Chris Burrell

Hospital leaders gave themselves a checkup this week, and while no crisis was detected, there was a prescription - for more work.

7:00 pm, March 29, 2001
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Commission Will Review Nonprofit Plan for Youth Tennis Center Near Blinker

Chris Burrell

The Martha's Vineyard Commission knows all about wrangling over golf courses, but next Thursday night they will take up tennis when they consider...

7:00 pm, March 15, 2001
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Tribe, Town Collide

Chris Burrell

In the view of Aquinnah police chief Doug Fortes, the turning point came in the fall of 1999, when rangers from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (...

7:00 pm, February 22, 2001
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Delivering the News

Mark Alan Lovewell

Robert and Ernestine Kinnecom of Oak Bluffs spent some time this week recalling wonderful memories - memories wrapped around their Vineyard...

7:00 pm, February 15, 2001
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Foreign Workers Change Face of Island Business

Katherine Wiley

"Today and tomorrow were supposed to be my days off. I got here at 5:30 this morning. My last days off were last year," Mr. Silva said, smiling even...