I ON THE COURT
Nantucket Court Report
     Two men admitted to marijuana possession in Monday's District Court but all other cases on the short docket were continued or dismissed as the Nantucket Superior Court twoweek fall session went into effect.
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L E T T E R S
     GAVE THE SHIRT OFF HIS BACK To the editor: I want to say "thank you" to an unnamed Nantucketer who made my family's vacation wonderful. His friendliness and generosity reflect well on everyone who lives on the island.
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Field Notes
by Peter B Brace
     FIELD STATION OPEN HOUSE Though open to the public most of the time, the UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station/Grace Grossman Environmental Center is holding its 5th annual open house on Sept. 24 to show Nantucketers its extraordinary backyard.
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I ON SELECTMEN
AT ITS SEPT. 13 MEETING THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN: BENNETT ABSENT
         + Held a public hearing to consider applications for the Auto Limitations
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e t c e t e r a
1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends
     MMA RECEIVES GRANT FOR TELESCOPE A$293,900 grant recently received by the Maria Mitchell Association from the National Science Foundation will be used to purchase a modern research telescope with state-of-the-art equipment for stellar photometry. The results will be used for undergraduate research
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The Lighthouse Keeper
     The cold wind that heralded change last week has gone away. Summer has returned. The air conditioning has gone on again in the office. Some of the most glorious weather known to man has been with us for the past several days. As the full moon has waned, September has returned.
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Media You Can Trust
     BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street 228-1080
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Pet Tracks
RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY
with Jan Jaeger
     You probably remember this one: Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day. Little Johnny wants to play; Rain, rain go to Spain, Never show your face again! This childhood rhyme is said to date back to the reign of Elizabeth I (1533-1603), a period of intense rivalry between England and Spain. The
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DISH
Parking Lot Pros
with Maribeth Maloney
     Neither tailgating nor football cross my mind often. For that I'm grateful. I don't like football and I've got just one memory of tailgating. It's a bad one, of course. Most people's minds go to fanciful thoughts of shirtless lunatics with painted faces, charred hotdogs and parking lots full of kegs
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TIGHT LINES
FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME
with Andrew Spencer
     Bo Pilgrim, chicken guy extraordinaire, was the "inventor" of the boneless chicken back in the '80s. I'm not entirely sure how said boneless chicken maintained its upright stature, but that's another story for another column. The issue I'm interested in here is the revolutionary nature of the bonele
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
BIRDS OF THE ALEUTIANS - AND NANTUCKET
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
     As you are reading this I am on a bird watching trip that stretches from Anchorage, Alaska, through the Aleutians, and out to Attu Island which is so far to the west it's actually "east." The international dateline makes a strange jog to the west just to keep us on the same day. To add to the confus
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e x p l o r e n a n t u c k e t
KAYAKING TO SHIMMO CREEK
with Peter B. Brace
     Stuck inside a museum all day is not the way I wanted to spend my Saturday.
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community events NANTUCKET SEPTEMBER 20 ~ SEPTEMBER 27calendar
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Bargain Bin
     4 5' boat stands, vgc, $450., 508325-0981. 8 matching contemporary
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