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Perhaps in the next election season politicians should be courting hockey moms, rather than their soccer sisters. Four stick-and-pucks mothers are behind this weekend's eight-team hockey tournament to benefit the nascent Nantucket High School club hockey team, which will begin play this winter. More ... The 1972 Dolphins, the only team in NFL history to finish a season unbeaten, have nothing on E & S Blues. More ... Before the Whalers soccer team got down to regular season business yesterday at Bourne, the squad had its preseason to polish off. The team traveled to Cape Cod Academy for an 11-on-11 tournament on Thursday and then took on a hodge-podge group of Nantucket Adult Soccer League players on Saturday at the elementary school field. More ... The 2005 Whalers football team finally got a chance to play against someone else on Saturday. After six days of practice, the varsity and junior varsity squads rolled out versus Nauset on Saturday in controlled scrimmages at the Cape school. More ... Chaos theory tells us that any significant event is actually the sum of many smaller, seemingly insignificant and seemingly unrelated events. More ... Away from the dog people, away from the horse people, away from the runners, joggers, walkers and mountain bikers is the other Sanford Farm. More ... It was winter and we were walking a beach near Ilan on the island's northeast coast. The Pacific waves were crashing to my right - sand dunes with beach grass to my left. I was electrified to hear a whistled call, "Whee-oh-weeee," the accent on the ascending final note and suddenly I was transported back to Nantucket in my mind. I looked up and glimpsed a gray bird rocketing past heading south, but I already knew what it was - a Black-bellied Plover. More ... |
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