He follows the Sun
Island teenager strives for surfing excellence
by Steve Sheppard
      Some Nantucketers opt to spend their high school years away at boarding school, but for sixteen year-old John Whelden it’s the board that matters. His measures 5 feet 9 inches, and with it he’s riding the wave of his dreams.
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Gator Nation
alive and well on Nantucket
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
      You may be able to imagine my amazement. In April, I moved to this grey shingled New England island from the strip malls and marshes of Gainesville, Fla. — where I had secured my M.F.A at the University of Florida and worked at the local paper. My first day here, I was walking down Centre Street fr...
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      SELECTING JUST THE RIGHT SHADE OF GREY What a charming surprise this duck is. If you follow Yogi Berra’s wise expression, “You can observe a lot just by watching,” it provides a great tool for finding them. A few days ago, the Sunday morning social birders were looking at a group of Black Ducks ...
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THISWEEK IN SPORTS
SPORTING EVENTS AROUND THE ISLAND, JAN. 3 TO JAN. 10
      Wednesday, Jan. 3 Boys’ varsity basketball vs. Avon High School, 3 p.m. Boys’ junior varsity basketball vs. Avon, 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 6 Brant Point Runners, 9 a.m. Coed varsity swimming and diving vs. Holliston High School, 1 p.m.
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