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Transition in the central office at the Nantucket Public Schools appears to have come to a close with the decision to hire Dr. Carlos Colley as the district's assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Positions remain unfilled at the elementary school and in the technology department. More ... On June 28 the selectmen will choose members for vacant seats on nearly two dozen town committees and commissions. The board accepted applications through Friday, June 16 because there were either no applicants or an insufficient pool to choose from for some committees. More ... Tony Dimitru, Collections Manager for the Nantucket Historical Association, explains the candle-making process to a delegation from Taiji, Japan, at the Whaling Museum on Sunday, June 11. While whaling is history on Nantucket, it is still practiced in Japan, primarily by the residents of Taiji, who have been whaling for over 400 years; smaller whales, like minke, are taken under the jurisdiction of the Japanese government. The group was here to make an association between their whaling history and Nantucket's, and planned a tour of the New Bedford Whaling Museum before heading to a whaling conference. More ... Developers and property owners take heed: Donald W. Holdgate's 13-lot Pine Estates subdivision is a model for new residential developments. More ... GRADUATION SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS: Desire Beaumont, Salve Regina College: Harry Gordon Scholarship for $1,000 and Junior Miss Scholarships in the amount of $1,900. More ... Fix your leaky fixtures and tighten up on your sprinkling schedule, the Siasconset Water Department begins billing its roughly 760 ratepayers through its new meter system next month. More ... If the selectmen want to initiate a residential charge to dump construction and demolition debris at the landfill they will need to do some creative thinking to make it workable. That matter, and increasing fees to drop off mattresses and refrigerators, for example, are on tonight's selectmen's agen More ... Selectman Michael Kopko won his quest last week to form an advisory sewer committee, but not before a tension-filled debate over its merits led by selectmen Michael Glowacki and Brian Chadwick, both of whom ultimately voted against the action. More ... If you plan to dust off and grease up your bike for seasonal duty this year, other than a helmet, which is necessary on Nantucket to protect yourself from serious injury, you should definitely invest in a bike lock. More ... Madaket's septic regulations became law on June 14 when the Board of Health unanimously approved Health Inspector Richard Ray's revised version. More ... BYE BYE, DUBAI Last week, Nantucket Island Resorts owner Stephen Karp told Andrew Farkas, the real estate tycoon who wanted to buy the Boat Basin, that the sale was not going to happen. More ... $302 MILLION SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET House 148-2, Senate 37-0, approved and sent to Gov. Mitt Romney a $302 million supplemental budget. Provisions include $50 million for improvements at UMass; $50 million for improvements at community colleges; $55 million for local roads and bridges; $20 million for More ... AT ITS MEETING ON JUNE 14 THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN: + Adopted changes to regulations for the Nantucket Harbor Watershed District and new regulations for the Madaket Watershed District. More ... |
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