TOWN ELECTION 2007
This week the selectmen candidate interview is with Neville Richen who is running against Rick Atherton, David Gray, Allen Reinhard and Patty Roggeveen for two open seats. The election is April 3.
NEVILLE RICHEN Candidate for Board of Selectmen
      1. Do you favor or oppose the idea of the selectmen appointing Planning Board, Historic District Commission and Shellfish and Harbor Advisory Board members rather than having them elected? "I am in favor of them being elected because I think there is more scrutiny by the public in the ...
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NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTS NEW MEMBERS
      Fourteen Nantucket High School students were inducted into the National Honor Society at ceremonies held last Thursday night.
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New town employee helps Finance Director
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      There is a new name on the town's payroll, and that makes Finance Director Connie Voges very pleased. On Feb. 5, Irene Larivee joined the finance department as budget analyst, a position approved within the FY07 budget.
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Environmental secretary close to ruling on Cape Wind
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      On March 29, the public comment frenzy will begin anew for the wind farm proposed for Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound as Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs Ian A. Bowles issues the Final Environmental Impact Statement from the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act office.
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      Known as a Katrina Cottage, Michael Haigley built this small house that can be mass-produced for storm refugees displaced by tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and other such natural calamities. See full story page 1.
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MILESTONES
      ENGAGEMENT Mr. & Mrs. Lee A. Corkish and the Late Susan I. Richrod, all of Nantucket, announce the engagement of their daughter, Holly Elaine Corkish, to Jeb Edward Backus, the son of Mr. & Mrs. John E. Backus, of Nantucket. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Richard B. Corkish, Jr., Ca...
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Stop & Shop workers accept new contract
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      At almost literally the last minute, a planned Stop & Shop worker strike across New England was averted when marathon labor negotiation talks ended Saturday night giving union members contracts they accepted.
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I ON SELECTMEN
AT ITS MEETING WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN: (Willauer absent)
      + Unanimously approved a request from Town Clerk Catherine Stover (recused from voting) to reappoint six constables whose terms will expire in April 2010. They are Frank Psaradelis, Jr.; F. Manuel Dias; Charles E. Toombs; Jerry W. Adams; John H. Stover; and Catherine Flanagan Stover.
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Electric company taking inventory for GIS system
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      There are people wandering through islanders' yards and along roadways this winter and spring looking up at power lines and poles. Do not be alarmed. They are not peeping toms, nor lost encyclopedia salesmen. They are employees of a company called Osmose Utilities Services, Inc., of Buffalo, N.Y.
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Government Study Committee releases final report
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      At tonight's selectmen's meeting the board will hear a presentation of the final report from the Town Government Study Committee, complete with explanations behind its nine Town Meeting articles, a list of advisory recommendations and issues raised by the committee it believes need further study b...
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