SEEING RED Alunar eclipse…that's right, a lunar eclipse will take place this Saturday, March 3, and should be visible to the naked eye just after sunset as the moon comes up. A lunar eclipse happens when the earth, in its orbit, lines up between the sun and the moon.
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MILESTONES
      BIRTH Noriann Mariska Wray was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Feb. 17, 2007 weighing 7 pounds and 7 ounces. She is the daughter of Beverly and Norris Wray and sister to Nase, Bryan, Tasha-Lee and Vanessa of Nantucket and Jamaica. Her grandparents are Monica and Wrenric of Montego Bay, Jam...
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Et Cetera
1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends
      STUCK TRUCK CANCELS EAGLE The Monday morning 9:15 Eagle's sail from Hyannis to Nantucket had to be cancelled when a Sun Island truck got hung up on the boat's ramp. Nantucket's Steamship Authority representative, H.
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The Lighthouse Keeper
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
      Hawkeye was perched atop the highest branch of one of the tall, dead, pine trees that we can see from our kitchen window. He had been there for quite some time, settling in after he chased a couple of highly indignant crows away. From his perch, Hawkeye surveyed the neighboring terrain for movement...
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YACK on:
Cheerful
Grant Sanders
      As if on cue, with the impending worst-month-of-theyear upon us next week, a dark veil has been cast upon the YACKon.com site. It's what Winston Churchill used to refer to, in his personal journals, as "The Black Dog." A sense of foreboding doom. Like a collapsed, dead star in space that sucks in e...
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I LOVE MY MAMA
      Our son e-mailed me a video I refer to as "I Love My Mama." If you want to have a really good laugh, just log onto talkingdogs. wmv and scroll down the list. In the video's several clips, a person, usually off camera, coaches their dog to "say" different phrases.
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The Spice of Life
      The older they get, the more my parents amaze me. I especially admire their ability to constantly reinvent themselves. Why, they can go seamlessly from perfect couple to match-made-in-hell at the drop of a hat. Part of me thinks the fact that they've made it through 49 years of marriage is a testam...
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THE CAT'S MEOW
      I'm a dog person. As has been discussed in this space in the past, I like my dog more than I like a lot of people, so it should come as no surprise that, were I asked to choose sides in a dispute, I'd favor the dog over the cat any day of the week. Now this is not to say that I'm somehow anti-cat. ...
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
IT'S A BIRD - IT'S A PLANE - NO IT'S …
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      But after all, this is a bird column. You'll have to read further to understand the tenuous tie-in to the title. Like the archaic spelling of 'pidgeon,' this week's bird has lost the 'd' in its name, and is now simply a wigeon. The word goes back to Old French, meaning a whistling duck. This week'...
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