Harbored View
Chris Perry
     For the better part of a year, they have sweat and stretched and sprinted and scored in relative obscurity. Despite their consistency, our attention has been unfairly focused on other teams with marginal success at best.
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Field Notes
by Peter B Brace
     SPEED BIRDING In 10 days, those who live to watch birds will fan out over the island to identify as many bird species as they can in 24 hours in the Maria Mitchell Association's 5th Annual Birdathon.
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The Lighthouse Keeper
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
     Apair of red-tails is nesting in a big pine tree about 75 feet from the house. Their well-disguised nest is hidden in a crotch formed by the trunk and a large branch. The casual viewer would not even realize the
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YACK on: Immigrant Day
Grant Sanders
     We held a poll on Monday of this week to see Immigrant Day - the work stoppage held protest of Bush Administration policies toward illegal immigrants - had any effect on the people of YACKon.com. The question was, "Have you noticed the immigrant worker strike on island?"
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Pet Tracks
with Jan Jaeger
     PARTY ANIMALS For the past several weeks, in my neck of the woods, the air has fairly crackled from the excitement of my granddaughter's sixth birthday and the de rigueur festivities on this occasion for the kindergarten set. Party planning that had been
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     PLAYING WITH FIRE One is quietly charming, the other completely disarming. Two different
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