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Sports November 29, 2006
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Smooth Sailing
for second annual Turkey Regatta
by Steve Sheppard
     The second annual Turkey Regatta took place under sunny skies and moderate winds Saturday. High winds Friday pushed the event up a day, which was fine with race organizers.
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Swim team prepares for new season
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
     With the graduation of several key swimmers from both the boys' and girls'teams, coach Jim Pignato looks to replace several positions this year.
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Island fans flock to see soccer all-stars
BY LINDAWILLIAMS
     On paper it looked like the Division 3 South All-Star team would pulverize the Division 3 North team in Canton, Mass. last Friday, with at least half of the top 10 scoring leaders on the team. But coach Rich Brannigan's soccer squad squeaked by with a 4-3 win, finally ending the long fall soccer sea
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
ANOTHER TOOL FOR THE BIRDER'S TOOLKIT
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
     Last year we had a Fork-tailed Flycatcher show up on Nantucket and now there is another handsome individual wowing the birders in Rye, N.H. There is also a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher in Maine. Saw-whet Owls are migrating past now. In Florida I see Roseate Spoonbills but never here. I'm sure that many
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From the s i d e l i n e s
     FOOTBALL PLAYERS NAMED TO ALL-STAR TEAM Whalers John O'Mara, Geddes Paulsen, Robert St. Pierre and Josh Stone were named to the Mayflower League (small division) all-star team this week. Erin Osona and Eric Rogers received honorable mention nods.
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Whalers add another winning year to record book
by Steve Sheppard
     In the end, they beat who they were supposed to beat and, in one memorable contest, a team that
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TIGHT LINES
THINK GLOBALLY, SHOP LOCALLY
with Andrew Spencer
     Outsourcing is one of those things we hear about in the news periodically. And even though everybody knows what it is, it's kind of tough to explain to someone who doesn't know about it. So I went to Wikipedia, that killer online source of all useless information in the world. According to that bast
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