Nantucket, MA

PDF of print edition Town to buy off-island scallop seed to aid fishery BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER      Faced with another record-low scallop harvest this season, Town Biologist Keith Conant is moving ahead with a plan to buy scallop seed from a hatchery off island to help save the fishery. More ... Jumpstart to spring: Daylight-saving time to begin three weeks earlier BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER      Quentin the Quahog was wrong on Feb. 2 because his prediction of six more weeks of winter did not account for daylight saving time coming three weeks earlier this year. More ... Pier Performance:       Working with welders, steel bulkheads and cranes on barges, the crew from Robert B. Our Construction Co., Inc. of Harwich is about 40 percent done building a new boat ramp and two finger piers at Children's Beach. More ... Stop & Shop negotiations continue BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       As of yesterday, talks between Stop & Shop officials and union representatives continued with no imminent strike or contract ratification expected in the short term. More ... Island writer becomes eighth wonder of the world: A seven- foot pincushion by Peter B. Brace + Independent Writer       "Wait a minute. What are you doing with those needles?" "You're putting them where?" "…ouch!" From pain comes pleasure. No pain, no gain. You have to have the sour and the sweet, yin and yang. I get it. I get that balance in life for which there are an infinite number of trite expressions. More ...