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Citing nostalgia and island quaintness, property owners around the Rotary slammed the door on the Nantucket Planning & Economic Development Commission (NP&EDC) proposal to redesign it into a roundabout. More ... Great Point Partners, developers of the Great Harbor Yacht Club of Rowayton, Conn., sold the last of its Wampanoag Way land for $5,000,000 to Kitty Murtagh's owner John Keane this month. More ... Thanks to the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) and many island realtors, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation is more than half a million dollars closer to buying the UMass Field Station. More ... Monday marked the 34th meeting since last July of the Town Government Study Committee, charged by 2005 Annual Town Meeting voters to scrutinize the effectiveness of the municipality's current form and recommend improvements by Town Meeting 2007. Those suggestions will include whether to change from More ... Gary Winn's proposal for a 15lot cluster division between Bartlett Road and Somerset Lane met virtually no resistance at a public hearing before the Planning Board last week. More ... Milton Kaye, a longtime seasonal resident of Nantucket, passed away in New York on August 14th, at the age of 97. Milton and his wife, Broadway star Shannon Bolin, maintained a home on India Street for over 40 years, and they were here in the spring and the fall as much as their schedules permitted. More ... Fearing the door firefighting foam opens up on the surface of the harbor water to toxic chemicals that can kill marine life, Steve Bender is challenging the Nantucket Boat Basin's biannual test of its fire prevention system. More ... Nantucket's small nonprofit Cottage Hospital has always operated at a loss, but this year its financial prognosis is relatively robust thanks to generous donations and a dose of funding from the 10th annual Boston Pops. More ... BIRTHS L eah Joan Crowley was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Aug. 15, 2006 weighing 7 pounds and 1 ounce. She is the daughter of Beth and Seamus Crowley of Nantucket. Her grandparents are Dottie and Lou Gennaro of Nantucket and Jimmy and Joan Crowley of Ireland. More ... |
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