YACK on: Home Stretch
Grant Sanders
      Well, folks, this is it. We are less than a week away from the local election on Tuesday the April 3, and I have to say I have no idea how the Board of Selectman race will shake out.
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Field Notes
by Peter B Brace
      COCKTAIL SAUCE PROSPECTS Rob Garrison's grant application to grow oysters just off the beach of Pimney's Point and inside the inlet behind that barrier beach is on hold while the town gathers more information. Garrison presented his aquaculture lease of town property to the Shellfish & Harbor ...
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The Lighthouse Keeper
REQUIEM FOR A LIGHTWEIGHT
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
      Saturday morning was about as glorious a March day as one gets on Nantucket. The sun shone. The blue sky was reflected in the water. The northwest wind was brisk and still had a bite to it, but it didn't penetrate quite the way the winds of even a few days earlier did. It was an auspicious day for ...
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1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends
      CONNECTING WITH INNER-CITY CHILDREN The Nantucket AIDS Network (NAN) is sponsoring the third year of projectDiscovery Camp in partnership with the Community Network for Children of Nantucket and the Nantucket New School. This year's camp will be held Sunday, June 24 through Friday, June 29 at the ...
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Identify This
Georgen Gilliam Charnes
      The Nantucket Historical Association houses the most complete visual record of Nantucket history in existence. The image here is from our collections, and may be one we cannot identify, wish for more information about or just want to see if people can identify. Many more images are available for vi...
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NANTUCKET'S MOST ELIGIBLE SINGLES
CHRIS COOK +35
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Pet Tracks
PET FOOD RECALL UPDATE
with Jan Jaeger
     "I have been feeding my dogs Science Diet all their lives," the customer lamented over the phone. "What am I going to feed them now that it is contaminated?" Her distress was real, but obviously, this long-time customer had heard only part of the continuously evolving story about the pet food recal...
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