Field Notes
by Peter B Brace
      DIGGIN’ BEETLES THAT BURY Birds you can see flying around alive, but beetles are either squashed underfoot or the target of insecticides in island gardens. How lucky then, the burying beetle must feel being reintroduced to Nantucket with the help of the Maria Mitchell Association and the Associa...
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e t c e t e r a
1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends
      NAC RECEIVES $75,000 WEEZIE GRANT The Nantucket Arts Council is pleased to announce that it has received a matching grant of $75,000 from the Weezie Foundation. The grant is to spur development of a permanent endowment for scholarships for Nantucket students continuing their education in the arts ...
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YACK on:
Reasons to Leave
Grant Sanders
      Irecently received an email from a YACKon.com lurker (the Internet term for someone who reads the site, but does not post — we have a lot of those) and he sent me a news story from the Orange County Register about a teen from Nantucket who was compelled to leave the island because he wanted to ful...
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PTertacks
with Jan Jaeger
      THE CAT BATH Part 1 Many people start out the year with a new diet, a new look or a new resolve to accomplish an ellusive goal. But this year, one of my goals for the New Year was practical and immediate.
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DISH
Bubbles or Bust (or both)
with Maribeth Maloney
      I’ve had a Volkswagen parked in my spare refrigerator for a while now. And every time I open that fridge door I’m afraid I’ll be met with an explosion. The Volkswagen, you see, is actually a Jeroboam of 1988 Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill Champagne, “Bottle Number 365” to be exact.
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TIGHT LINES
Andrew Spencer
      NEW YEAR, NEW ME Time is a funny thing. No matter how hard you wish it would slow down, speed up, add to or subtract from itself, it stays exactly the same. How many of us have longed for an extra hour or two in the day so that we can get that newspaper column written before the deadline?
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Bargain Bin
To place listings, email: sharon@nantucketindependent.com, or call Sharon at 508-228-1654
      • All listings are FREE • Prices must be listed with each item. • Sale price limit is $1,000 • Deadline is Noon Monday before publication • Call and renew after 2 weeks • 30 words maximum. Use of PHOTOS FREE You provide it, and we’ll run it!
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L E T T E R S
SEND YOUR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: INFO@NANTUCKETINDEPENDENT.COM
      SUPPORTS MADAKET MARKET To the editor: Our family owns a home in Madaket and is a strong supporter of Ande Grennan's proposal to convert and divide his property now known as the West End into a market with an apartment for its manager and a private home.
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I ON SELECTMEN
AT ITS MEETING DEC. 27, THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: (Bennett absent)
      • Unanimously approved a citizen request for assent to a Land Court petition for 65 Hummock Pond Road. CONVENING AS THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, MEMBERS: • Tabled proclaiming Jan. 2 to 9 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Week to obtain further information.
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The Lighthouse Keeper
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE
      ’Tis the season for resolutions and predictions. New Years resolutions, generally, are well-intentioned attempts to deal with human failings, in particular those of the one attempting to be resolute. Having long ago learned which road is paved with good intentions, the making and promulgation of re...
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I ON THE STATEHOUSE
HOW YOUR LAWMAKERS VOTED DEC. 18 ~ DEC. 29
      $200,000 FOR “REACH OUT AND READ” PROGRAM House 141-15, Senate 38-0, overrode Gov. Mitt Romney's $200,000 veto reduction (from $1 million to $800,000) in funding for the Reach Out and Read (ROR) program. ROR is a national non-profit group that began in 1989 at Boston Medical Center to address the ...
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