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Nantucket Restaurant Group chosen to take over Hutch's BY MARY LANCASTER "I'm tickled pink. I think this is so cool," said native islander Linda Peterson after learning last week that the Airport Commission picked Nantucket Restaurant Group LLC as the new proprietor of Hutch's at the Nantucket air terminal. More ...
BY PETER B. BRACE Cautiously, Marine Superintendent Dave Fronzuto predicts that the 2006/2007 commercial scallop season is going to be more productive than last season's paltry 5,500 bushels. More ... Needs Survey results show money issues, housing and insurance as chief concerns BY MARY LANCASTER Results of the Human Needs Survey returned by 705 community members show that finding and affording housing is indeed a major concern for islanders, but what may come as a surprise is that the top ranking household issue among Nantucket's neediest is inadequate money to pay a doctor, dentist or buy More ...
BY MARY LANCASTER Tomorrow morning, interim Fire Chief Mark McDougall will be sworn in as Nantucket's new permanent fire chief. He was chosen by Town Administrator Libby Gibson because of his leadership experience and established island residency. More ...
BY MARY LANCASTER What better place to gain further insight into the respectful, tender treatment of the terminally ill than Tibet, where its Buddhist population holds life in high reverence. Charlene Thurston, executive director of Hospice of Nantucket, recently returned from a 10-day visit to Tibet and China with t More ...
BY PETER B. BRACE Time will stand still on Orange Street Nov. 5-17 when the Unitarian Universalist Church's clock face is removed for replacement of its dials and regilding of it hands. More ... Plan to make SHAB an appointed board is revived BY PETER B. BRACE Nearing the end of producing an updated harbors plan, the Harbor Advisory Committee, in finetuning the first draft of the plan, revived the idea of making SHAB an appointed board. More ... Hospital may become affiliate of Mass General BY MARY LANCASTER This Friday, Nantucket Cottage Hospital will file an application with the Department of Public Health relating to a potential affiliation arrangement with Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare System, an action also being undertaken by the rural Martha's Vineyard Hospital. More ... KIDS HELPING KIDS To the editor: We are trying to raise money for UNICEF. Kids helping kids. More ...
The Nantucket Film Festival continues to augment the cultural fabric of the island, long after the last film has screened over the summer. As part of the festival's outreach in the community, Executive Director Jill Burkhart and Artistic Director Mystelle Brabbee joined NFF Screenwriters Colony dire More ... Special election this Tuesday for sewer plant upgrade override BY MARY LANCASTER The Special Town Meeting article seeking approval of a $9.5 million appropriation to supplement the $35.5 million cost to upgrade the Surfside Wastewater Treatment Facilty passed muster without discussion and that proposal now goes to the voters next Monday. More ... Town opening Hummock, Sesachacha ponds this week BY PETER B. BRACE This morning at around 8:15 a.m. at low tide, the town is opening Hummock Pond to the ocean. More ... MILESTONES BIRTHS A nna Carroll Houghton was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Oct. 21, 2006 weighing 8 pounds. She is the daughter of James Robert Houghton and Alix Carroll Houghton of Nantucket. Her grandparents are Kevin and Linda Carroll of Bernard, Maine and Anthony and Isabel Houghton of Singer Is More ...
PETER SETON HELLER Peter Seton Heller, a lively presence in Siasconset for over 50 summers, died of melanoma on October 21 at the age of eighty at his home in New York City. A graduate of the Putney School, Harvard College, and the Harvard Law School, he was for forty years a corporate lawyer (and for More ... |
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