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Dreams Do Come True
Back in 1976, my friend Jack Gallagher drove the Zamboni at the Ice Age in Austin, Texas. I thought it was a cool job. Never did I dream that I'd actually be allowed to drive one. I got my chance Monday morning when Nantucket Ice general manager Bob Hickman gave me a ticket to ride. More...
BREAKING NEWS HDC approves wind turbine
By Peter B. Brace

The Historic District Commission approved a wind turbine for private use on Nantucket at its weekly meeting last night. More...

THE STATE OF OUR ROADS
By Peter B. Brace

Nantucket's town roads received a B+ in a recent assessment of their condition by town consultant Mactec of Wakefield, Mass., which performed the town's pavement management study of all its roads and bike paths. More...

 Other News
• NLC sells 31 acres to the Land Bank
Acquisition helps Land Council on Loring campaign
The Nantucket Islands Land Bank has purchased 31.7 acres on Quidnet Road from the Nantucket Land Council for $3 million. The Land Council, however, got so much more. More...
• article has image Burnham and Pillion earn four-year scholarships from Nantucket Golf Club
• article has image House fire claims 80-year-old man
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 The Arts
• article has image The art of preservation
Preservation History Month proffers walks, lectures and exhibits to point out that historic preservation means more than gray shingled houses
Unlike Elizabeth Bishop's art of losing, the art of preservation is actually quite hard to master, especially on Nantucket. In fact, to some there is a war on Nantucket between the present and the past. Its battlefields are homesteads and its weapons are easements and bulldozers. More...
• article has image GALLERY GUIDE
• Cisco hosts chili cookoff at Cambridge Street
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 Opinion
• AMAZING COMMUNITY SUPPORT
To the editor: The Spring Down the House fundraising event on Saturday, April 29, at the Chanticleer and 'Sconset Casino brought the Small Friends' Building Dreams capital campaign out into the open! Small Friends on Nantucket is raising funds to build Nantucket's first LEED certified, environmentally responsible commercial building for its new home. More...
• AMESSAGE FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
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 Sports
• article has image Cohasset test this Sunday
Lacrosse team looks ahead to benchmark matchup, and to second half of season
Approaching the midway point of the season, the Whalers boys' lacrosse team knows that next Sunday's home matchup with defending Division 3 champs Cohasset will be a fitting benchmark for possible postseason play. "Right now we need to beat the teams we should beat if we intend to make the playoffs," coach Rick Blair said after Saturday's 11-4 loss at home to perennial powerhouse Marshfield. More...
• article has image Molloy hired as assistant to AD Larrabee
• article has image TIGHT LINES
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 Columns
• Field Notes
GREEN FOR GREEN Small Friends of Nantucket raised $100,000 at its its Spring Down the House fundraiser this past Saturday at the Chanticleer Restaurant and Siasconset Casino. More...
• The Lighthouse Keeper
• article has image YACK on: Spring
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 Property Profile
• article has image LOVELY ON LYON
PROPERTY PROFILE Great Point Properties $1,495,000
Lyon Street is one of those quaint, narrow lanes in the Old Historic District of Nantucket that presents a surprise around every corner. One such surprise is the home at 14 Lyon Street. Built in 1925 and renovated in the mid 1990s, this adorable home exudes charm from the minute you approach it. The facade features several rows of scalloped cedar shingles. The front fence curves gently. More...
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 Property Transfers
• article has image PROPERTY TRANSFERS
April 23, 2007 - April 27, 2007
1. A house on .22 of an acre at 93 Main St. sold to Far Horizon, LLC, of Miami, Fla. from 93 Main Nantucket, LLC, of Boston, Mass. for $10,500,000. The property is assessed at $6,665,200. The land bank fee is $210,000. 2. A vacant lot on 31.7 acres at 10 Quidnet Road sold to the Nantucket Islands Land Bank of Nantucket, Mass. from Trotts Hills Realty Trust, Peter R. More...
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