Martha's Vineyard

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A federal judge says migrants can sue the company that flew them to Martha's Vineyard

7:12pm April 01, 2024

by Greg Allen

Migrants can sue an air transport company that they say misled them when it flew them from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. A judge dismissed claims against Florida officials, including Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Gay Head lighthouse rises above the cliffs on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in 2010. The body of Tafari Campbell, a personal chef to the Obamas, was recently recovered in nearby Edgartown Great Pond.

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Obamas' personal chef dies while paddleboarding in Martha's Vineyard

2:49pm July 25, 2023

by Emily Olson

The body of Tarfari Campbell, 45, was recovered Monday after a two-day search in Edgartown Great Pond, near a home owned by the former president and first lady.

Marthas Vineyard residents line up in front of St. Andrews Parish House to donate food to the recently arrived migrants. Two planes of migrants from Venezuela arrived suddenly Wednesday night on Martha's Vineyard.

Migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard are being rehoused on a base in Cape Cod

4:37pm September 16, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

The immigrants who were sent from Texas to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will now be housed in Joint Base Cape Cod.

A woman, who is part of a group of migrants that had just arrived, holds a child as they are fed outside St. Andrews Episcopal Church on Wednesday in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew two planes of migrants to Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday.

After migrants arrived in Martha's Vineyard, a community gathered to welcome them

1:54pm September 16, 2022

Residents across Martha's Vineyard say they were scrambling to care for the nearly 50 immigrants, who arrived without warning at the local airport.

David Vanderhoop, 67, at Sassafras Earth Education, an indigenous Wampanoag nonprofit that he runs with his wife on Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

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On Martha's Vineyard, tribal elders work to restore land to its pre-colonial state

1:28pm June 29, 2022

by Eve Zuckoff

On the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, members of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe are trying to restore land to the way it looked, smelled and sounded pre-colonialism.

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A poster advertising the anniversary collector's edition of the movie Jaws is posted on a lifeguard tower in 2000 on Zuma Beach in Malibu, Calif.

A 'Jaws' actor is named police chief in the town where the iconic movie was filmed

3:00pm May 20, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

Decades ago, Jonathan Searle played one of the pranksters with a cardboard fin in Jaws.