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Falmouth Academy representatives visit NNS
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      Representatives from Falmouth Academy visited the Nantucket New School Wednesday to measure interest in future attendance at the private school by island children. While many students over the years have gone off island to board at private secondary schools, Falmouth Academy is a day school and do...
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Surfside area plan gets rolling Tom Nevers’ plan well on its way
BY PETER B. BRACE
      Surfside and South Shore Road area residents caught the planning bug this year and are just starting the process of gathering information to write a long-range planning document for their neighborhoods.
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Five-hour meeting leaves many applications without rulings
BY PETER B. BRACE
      At one point during the Dec. 11 Planning Board meeting, there were around 65 people filling all the seats with the unlucky ones standing around, waiting for their applications to be heard. The Planning Board waded through 16 public hearings, which took more than three hours to review.
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Committee proposes “soft” cap on vehicles
BY MARY LANCASTER
      Tonight the selectmen will receive recommendations from the Auto Limitations Study Committee, charged with coming up with solutions to the island’s traffic problems and submitting a proposal by Dec. 31.
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Selectmen hope to question Muse owner tonight
Board holds off on renewal of license because of problems at Surfside Road nightclub
BY MARY LANCASTER
      For the second consecutive week, the selectmen last Wednesday withheld approval for renewal of the liquor and entertainment licenses for The Muse.
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Islanders critique Great Harbor at DEP hearing
BY PETER B. BRACE
      The state Department of Environmental Protection wants to issue a decision on Great Harbor Yacht Club’s waterways license sometime next spring. Ben Lynch, DEP program chief of the Chapter 91 waterway protection statute, came to Nantucket last Thursday to hear what Nantucketers thought of the yacht...
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MILESTONES
      BIRTHS J ake Darragh Johnson was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Dec. 6, 2006 weighing 8 pounds and 2 ounces. He is the son of Brian and Fiona Johnson and brother of Kevin Johnson of Nantucket. His grandparents are Anne and Eamonn Wisemay of Bantry, Ireland and Kevin and Delia Johnson of L...
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NP&EDC looking at alternate wind farm sites
Draft environmental impact statement is due out in March 2007
BY PETER B. BRACE
      Although one of Governor-elect Deval Patrick’s thickest and widest campaign planks is his support for wind and other alternate forms of energy, most Nantucketers, along with the Nantucket Planning & Economic Development Commission, want Cape Wind to choose another site for its wind farm.
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