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This week The Nantucket Independent continues 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. More ... Monday sessions in Nantucket's District Court will be relatively brief through the summer and will primarily deal with arraignments, cases scheduled to be closed after a period of continuance or cases on the docket for some form of status review. Pre-trial conferences will be held on Wednesdays. More ... Last week the Board of Selectmen appointed Diane Holdgate to the Cemetery Commission Workgroup for a term ending in 2009. Four at-large members - Diane Coombs, Leslie Johnson, Sarah Oktay and Carl Sjolund - were named to the Harbor Plan Implementation Committee for terms ending in 2009. More ... In the name of humanitarianism, 23- year-old runner Erin Sprague has her sights set on being the youngest person to run a marathon on all seven continents. The current age record for women is 30 and 25 for men. Sprague and her boyfriend Dana Worth, the grandson of islanders David and Laura Worth, and a consultant with the Boston-based firm Axia Ltd. More ... There are two new faces in the Town Clerk's office: Diane Wallingford and Nefrediezha L. Barbel. When former Assistant Town Clerk James Grieder left mid-February to become Assistant Administrator at the Historic District Commission, Administrative Clerk Linda MacDonald moved into his role and Wallingford was hired to assume MacDonald's duties. More ... When the last of three piping plover chicks gets off the ground today, Steve Nicolle, the Trustees of Reservations' property superintendent on Nantucket, expects to reopen the sand route out to Great Point. Nicolle said around 1 p.m. More ... It's inconspicuous enough out there by the ocean. Last week, surrounded by the caravan of the carnival, it seemed little more than a backdrop to the motor homes parked before it. You'd really have to be looking for it to find it. More ... AT ITS MEETING TONIGHT, JULY 18, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN WILL: • Hold a public hearing to consider approval of a common victualler's license for Philip Dickey, manager of The Shack at 63 Surfside Road (See separate story). More ... HOSPITAL BREAKS BIRTH RECORD FOR JUNE Though the expected total was shy by five babies, Nantucket Cottage Hospital still broke its record in June with 22 infants born in its maternity unit. More ... Over the next year, the school committee and superintendent of schools will study class size, student behavior, the schedules of all three schools and ways teachers can best meet the needs of students with different learning styles. More ... Roger Bason's Natural Currents Energy Services is not the first power generation firm to dip its toes into the relatively new field of tidal energy on the Cape and Islands. The Oceana Energy Company of Washington, D.C. More ... According to a study by Consumer Reports in 1993, repellents containing N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide, commonly known as DEET, warded off mosquitoes for seven-and-a-half hours, 40 percent better than all other repellents. More ... The 51 species of mosquitoes in Massachusetts notwithstanding, the ladybug is our state insect, according to State Secretary William Frances Galvin's Web site. A second grade class in the Town of Franklin came up with the idea in 1974 that the two-spotted lady beetle best represents the Massachusetts insect world. More ... GLENN SANTOS PERISHES DURING FISHING OUTING Sorrow touched the lives of Joseph and Christine Santos this week when they learned that their son Glenn, 58, died on Sat., July 14, 2007 while fishing with a friend on Lake Ontario. The tragedy was especially poignant for the couple because they lost their first son, Joseph Santos, Jr., of Randolph, Mass. only five years ago. More ... Marjorie Credo Baker, a permanent resident of Nantucket for 30 years, died July 7, 2007 at her home on the Island. She was 89. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Marge graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1938, and completed a year towards her Master's Degree in Education there in 1939. She was married in 1941, gave birth to five children, divorced in 1960. More ... |
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