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At the July 18 meeting of the School Committee, Nantucket Public Schools superintendent Dr. Robert Pellicone announced that the district had hired its new elementary school principal. The hiring fills the position left by Nancy Larrabee, who became the district's director of health, athletics and ph More ... Miacomet Road, fear property owners in the area, is going to become more dangerous if the Planning Board approves Bluefin Partners, LLC's 19-lot cluster development at 120 Miacomet Rd. More ... Planning Director Andrew Vorce and the Planning Board are proposing 15 zoning district changes tied to the 41-81D Master Plan for the fall Special Town Meeting. More ... In a widely collaborative effort to bring as many concepts to the table as possible, Janet Schulte, executive director of the Maria Mitchell Association, has organized a steering committee and is inviting community members to participate with them in planning the ultimate future use of the associati More ... Janet Schulte has kept count. She moved to the island exactly three months and nine days ago to become executive director of the Maria Mitchell Association. And being a true nature lover, she has marked the calendar by the profuse succession of flowers blooming in fields, gardens and windowboxes, so More ... Still the cheapest bed on the island at $22 a night, the Star of the Sea youth hostel in the former Surfside Lifesaving Station is making those beachside accommodations even more comfortable. More ... The thought of combining human excrement with decaying garbage to make yard fertilizer might be unattractive, to put it mildly. More ... By this fall, Jana Duarte and Lisa Eldridge hope they have hundreds of women pledging to walk with them in the fight against breast cancer. More ... On June 11, 2006 the world lost a brilliant, accomplished, courageous, dynamic person with a zest for life and a commitment to her community. Edythe M. Travelstead, a woman of valor lost her valiant fight with breast cancer in her 64th year. Edythe was a survivor and she will continue to survive in More ... BIRTH W illannia Shalamar Thompson was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on July 17, 2006 weighing 7 pounds and 1 ounce. She is the daughter of William and Michelle Thompson of Nantucket. Her grandmother is Blanche Finegan of Montego Bay, Jamaica. Her great-grandparents are Beryl Lawrence of S More ... Still the cheapest bed on the island at $22 a night, the Star of the Sea youth hostel in the former Surfside Lifesaving Station is making those beachside accommodations even more comfortable. More ... |
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