YACK on:
Future of Spelling
Grant Sanders
      This weekend marks one of the biggest events of the winter on Nantucket. The Nantucket Community Spelling Bee, sponsored by the Friends of Nantucket Public schools. It starts on Saturday at 5 p.m., with a dinner prepared by the school's culinary art students. There's an open gym where kids can ru...
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I ON THE COURT Nantucket Court Report
      An island teenager and one of a group of youths who broke into Miacomet Avenue homes on Dec. 12 and 13 and took possessions and vehicles during the spree was sentenced on Monday to serve two years in the Barnstable House of Correction.
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I ON SELECTMEN
AT ITS JAN. 24 MEETING, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN CONVENING AS THE NANTUCKET REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY ADVISORY BOARD:
      + Were provided with NRTA's FY06 annual report. + Unanimously approved a federal rural funding application for $470,291. + Unanimously approved the shuttle's level of service for 2007. + Unanimously approved an FY07 budget amendment and the FY08 budget.
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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
      SEARCH FOR MISSING CREW CONTINUES The search for three crewmen who were aboard the Lady of Grace fishing vessel that sank off Nantucket sometime between Friday and Saturday continued yesterday after one body was recovered by state police divers Monday afternoon.
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The Lighthouse Keeper
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE
      It is the end of January. The cold weather has finally arrived. The real estate market is, shall we say, quiet. There are parking places, sometimes, on Main Street. Nantucket is in the doldrums. That is a bit of an oxymoron, since by one of Mr.
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L E T T E R S
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      JUDGE HAS MADE ISLAND A BETTER PLACE To the editor: I am a Nantucket attorney who has known Nantucket District Court First Justice W. James O'Neill both personally and professionally for more than twenty five years.
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