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Linda Loring, right, was on hand last week to accept a check in the amount of $6,000 from Nantucket Lighthouse School students for the Nantucket Land Council.

STUDENTS RAISE $6,000 FOR LORING CAMPAIGN Nantucket Lighthouse School students donated days of their summer last year to trek out into the fields of Nantucket to document some of the island's most rare flowers and plants. Using their field research and drawings, the students created The Lighthouse School's Wildflower Study Calendar, whose sales benefited the Nantucket Land Council's campaign to buy the conservation rights on the Loring property. Last week, the NLC, which reached its goal this month, received a check for $6,000 from the Lighthouse School's calendar sales. Nice job, kids.

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE MAKES IT TO ENGLAND John Nesbit, an editor of the Bournemouth (England) Echo was walking on the beach at Durdle Door, west of Bournemouth early on Saturday, Jan.13 and found a bottle with a note inside.

The note said that the bottle had been launched from a fishing boat 30 miles east of Nantucket on August 23, 2005 and asked that the finder contact Pennel Ames of Nantucket. Ames, the president of the Nantucket Shellfish Association, has been sending bottles off to sea since about 2000. He keeps a scrap book with the responses he has gotten from the finders of his bottles.

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"You have to launch a lot of bottles to hear anything," he said. "I get two or three responses a year. A lot of them just go to the Cape, which is bad news." He has heard in the past that his bottles have washed up in the Shetland Islands, Wales and Ireland. Now he will add the Dorset coast of the English Channel to his list of destinations.

SHERBURNE COMMONS HIRES RESIDENT CARE DIRECTOR When Sherburne Commons opens this month as the island's first senior living community, Jane Kelly will be greeting its members as their Resident Care Director, coordinating wellness services for those residing in independent living cottages and apartments and supervising care for assisted living residents and others in the Sherburne House Memory Care.

Kelly, a Nantucket native, is a nurse practitioner and holds a master's degree from Wichita State University. Though she moved and worked around the country as necessary with her husband's career requirements, she

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returned to the island in 2004 and has been employed as a home healthcare nurse with Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Kelly has two children in college and enjoys walking her golden retrievers, gardening, reading and spending time with her parents who still live here.

KOZLOWSKI IS HOSPITALIZED Dennis Kozlowski, the imprisoned former head of Tyco International, was hospitalized last week with what appears to have been a heart problem.

Aperson close to Kozlowski said the former executive suffered some sort of a heart problem one day last week and had at least one stent surgically implanted.

Kozlowski was convicted in June 2005 of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from Tyco and illegally earning hundreds of millions more by manipulating stock. Among other things, the lawsuit charges that Kozlowski initially funded his 7,000 square foot Nantucket estate at 37 Squam Road on Nantucket from Tyco's relocation account. The estate has a four-bedroom guesthouse and a garage on 3.8 oceanfront acres.It is currently on the market for $19.9 million.

Kozlowski is serving an 8-1/3 to 25-year sentence at Mid-State Correctional Facility near Utica.

- Compiled from staff and wire reports