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Editor's note: This week, The Nantucket Independent begins Voices Away from the Bluff, examining the ramifications of the Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund's beach nourishment proposal. More ... Twenty-eight thousand concrete railroad ties cannot replace the 105 acres of naturally cobbled ocean bottom island fishermen say they will lose to dredging and beach rebuilding in front of Baxter Road. More ... The Community Preservation Committee received 18 FY09 funding requests by its Sept. 14 deadline that total $4,980,603. Last year the CPC funded 16 projects at $3,034,741. Decisions on who will receive the new allocations must be made by Nov. 23 to go on the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting. More ... Unlike last week with its lengthy docket, in Nantucket District Court this Monday there were plenty of seats available for the business at hand, but with the beginning of a two-week session of Superior Court on that day, the combined proceedings lasted past 3 p.m. More ... Smooth green snakes on Coatue, Northern black widow spiders on Tuckernuck and echoes of the prairie chicken's reputed presence on sandplain grasslands: this is the stuff of island habitat and wildlife research that will be presented Saturday at the Coffin School on 4 Winter St. More ... You read about islanders who are in the public eye all the time, but what do you know about your neighbors - those you see at the supermarket, the gas station, at school or just in passing on the street? More ... By late yesterday afternoon, Sankaty Head Light was 14 inches taller than it was yesterday morning. Expert House Movers and International Chimney, the contractors who are moving the lighthouse northwest 390 feet, jacked Sankaty out of the ground, More ... Ed Toole of 'Sconset has an interesting hobby, and it's taken him, among other places, to Lake Placid, to Calilfornia, across Canada and to Hawaii four times. Most recently, it took him to Louisville, Kentucky, where he finished first among 45- to 49-year olds, and 50th overall out of 1,703 participants, in the Louisville Iron Man Triathlon. More ... AT ITS MEETING TONIGHT, SEPT. 19, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN WILL: • Hear an announcement about the seasonal change in shuttle bus schedules. • Hear a citizen request for a taxi license transfer from Beverly Topham, widow of Alvin "Toppy" Topham who died on Aug. 17. She seeks a legacy license to continue operation of her husband's TMS cab business. More ... SNAKES ALIVE At dusk on the evening of Sept. 13, volunteer naturalist Bob Kessler, a teacher's aide at Cyrus Peirce Middle School, and Naturalist Diane Lang of the Trustees of Reservations discovered an eight- to 10-inch smooth green snake on Wyer's Point on Coatue. More ... BIRTHS Amare Kemar Bramwell was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Sept. 15, 2007 weighing 7 pounds and 8 ounces. He is the son of AnMarie Daley and Pernell Bramwell and brother of Shereen, Kayon, Maya, Junor, Noah and Noel of Kingston, Jamaica and New Zealand. His grandparents are Luranda and Alvin Daley, and Karmen and Gordon and Edgar Bramwell of Kingston, Jamaica. More ... |
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