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July 25, 2007  RSS feed

Special Town Meeting begins tomorrow
This is the time of year when people want to spend as many hours as possible outside after work, but officials are hoping residents will set aside their grille mitts and fishing poles for one evening to attend tomorrow night's Special Town Meeting with a three-article warrant. More...
ARTICLE 1

Voters at tomorrow night's special Town Meeting will be asked to vote pro or con on making the Dreamland their own. More...

ARTICLE 2

The replacement of the intersection of Hooper Farm Road, Pleasant Street and Sparks Avenue with a roundabout did not happen overnight. It required an intricate dance of town protocols and voter approvals that gave Nantucket, many believe, a smoother-flowing traffic junction. More...

 Other News
• article has image Loring Foundation hires Pochman as first director
Thas he Linda Loring Nature Foundation lured former Maria Mitchell Association executive director Kathryn "Kitty" Pochman out of retirement and last week named her to be its first executive director and guiding force behind a planned environmental education center geared to children. More...
• Nantucket Harbor water quality ranked best in Southeastern Mass.
• OBITUARY
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 The Arts
• article has image Circus Flora
The performers of Circus Flora were all making themselves at home in their little corner of Tom Nevers on Sunday evening. More...
• article has image Artist Roy Bailey returns in spirit
• article has image Snips and snails and puppy dog's tales
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 Opinion
• LETTERS
SEND YOUR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: DON@NANTUCKETINDEPENDENT.COM
AN "INSANE" IDEA To the editor: At the Special Town Meeting this Thursday, special interest groups will attempt to get the people of Nantucket to approve an undisclosed amount of money to purchase and renovate the Dreamland Theater. More...
• article has image GREY MATTER by James Cennamo
• article has image My View
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 Sports
• article has image TIME OUT withBILL LEE
If you want to talk baseball, is there anyone better on the planet than Bill "Spaceman" Lee, the lefthanded Red Sox legend, guru and raconteur? Lee and other former Sox players will be at the high school baseball field tonight at 6 p.m. to take on a team of islanders in a softball game to benefit the Friends of the Nantucket Public Schools. More...
• article has image Large turnout helps conservation in Race for Open Space
• article has image Wooden Bat League season gets underway
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 Columns
• article has image Kyle Latshaw Loretta Yoder
113 Baxter Road
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...
• I ON THE COURT
• article has image My kingdom for a fish
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 Property Profile
• article has image Hidden Away on Pine Street
PROPERTY PROFILE
The house at 4 Pine Street, known as the Captain James Coffin House, is tucked away on a quiet and ample lot, just steps from the cobbles of Main Street and minutes from shops and restaurants. It is bordered to the rear of the property, by Ray's Court, which is a wonderful, hidden, shell lane connecting Fair Street and Main Street. More...
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 Property Transfers
• article has image PROPERTY TRANSFERS
July 16, 2007 - July 20, 2007
1. A house on 1.01 acres at 29 Baxter Road sold to Insight Baxter, LLC, of Newton, Mass. from Louise Ritchie Beale, William Ludlow Ritchie, Jr. and C. Jackson Ritchie, Jr., Executors under the will of Eleanor Preston Ritchie of 'Sconset, Mass. for $4,950,000. The property is assessed at $7,373,400. The land bank fee is $99,000. More...
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