VOICES FROM THE BLUFF
SBPF Speaks AN INDEPENDENT SERIES
Bill Holding, Jr. 6 Bayberry Lane
      This week The Nantucket Independent begins a series of interviews with members of the Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund to get behind the meeting rhetoric and to learn why they joined the fight to slow erosion of the Bluff in 'Sconset.
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I ON THE COURT
Nantucket Court Report
      In Monday's District Court session the case against Scott T. Atwood was dismissed. He was charged June 21 with disorderly conduct. Dakota Cooke, 21, of 66 Prospect St., charged July 6 with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, drug possession and a drug violation near a school, had the case continued to July 11.
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TENDING TO THE PREMONITION
      Succumbing to the inevitability of erosion, death by excavator cannot be a pleasant way to retire one's house. But then the option of watching the ocean pound it into submission and then dealing with the cleanup after the house parts are scattered up and down the island's beaches is no picnic either.
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Business costs bite into transportation revenues
"We are seeing additional revenue with the number of passengers we carried over last year. The month of June had a 13 percent increase for Nantucket." - Wayne Lamson, SSA General Manager
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      The simple cost of doing business along with new and necessary expenses has affected the revenue generated by air and boat travel to the island. At the airport, total revenue for the year ending June 30, 2006 came to $10.7 million compared to the June 30, 2007 total of $11.6 million.
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New water towers nearing end of permitting process
"I would anticipate site work throughout the winter, and then serious tank building in the spring of '08 with the goal to have it online for the spring of '09." - Bob Gardner, Manager, Wannacomet Water Company
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      On July 4, Wannacomet Water Company, the town's water supplier, pumped nearly 3.6 million gallons of water. Before that, during the last seven days of June, Wannacomet pumped over three million gallons per day, with an average of 3.2 million gallons per day.
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Traffic stats fluctuate
Airport fairly level, SSA picking up, Hy-Line sees modest drop
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Whether by plane, fast ferry or traditional steamship, the reasons for year-to-year fluctuations in travel figures are as varied as the people who visit the island.
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Regina Keightley, 77, leaves legacy as dedicated community volunteer
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Regina Keightley's life came full circle on Nantucket, where she was born at the original hospital on West Chester Street in January 1930 and died peacefully on July 4, 2007 at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Prospect Street surrounded by her children. Mrs. Keightley, a devoted community volunteer for 25 years, succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of 77.
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The Sweetest Job
by Mary Lancaster • Independent Writer
      Now I understand why Ben Shelton's favorite thing to do is go to work. Who could resist a job where everyone you meet is excited to see you, greets you with ear to ear grins and sometimes literally jumps up and down for joy?
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I ON SELECTMEN
On Monday, July 9 the selectmen met at 9 a.m. for a workshop discussion on the proposed Nantucket Sewer Act prior to a legislative hearing on the Act scheduled for July 17.
      AT ITS MEETING TONIGHT, JULY 11, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN WILL: • Make appointments to the Harbor Plan Implementation Committee and Cemetery Commission Workgroup. The Cemetery Commission has Diane Holdgate as its applicant.
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MILESTONES
      Jessica S. West of Nantucket, Mass., an eleventh grader at Phillips Exeter Academy, earned Honors for spring term. The daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John C. West, she is in her third year at the independent secondary school in Exeter, N.H.
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