Nantucket, MA

PDF of print edition Field Notes by Peter B Brace       END IN SIGHT FOR BRANT POINT AREA CONSTRUCTION By the end of April, the near-constant excavation, pipe-laying, waterline diversions, backfilling, compacting, back-up beeping and miscellaneous loud, earthshaking work related to the town's I/I project on Brant Point will wrap up for the season. More ... The Lighthouse Keeper RISING TO THE CHALLENGE BY DANIEL W. DRAKE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER       Challenges come in all sizes and shapes. Some arise, are dealt with - or not, as the case may be - and quickly pass. Others linger because they can not be dealt with immediately or because challenged people choose to procrastinate or, justifiably, view other challenges as having a higher priority. More ... YACK on: Citizen Kopko Grant Sanders       It was one year ago this week that Michael O'Brien Kopko beat Patricia Roggeveen handily in the race for a single selectman's seat. No need for a recount, thank goodness. He won easily by 231 votes. More ... Pet Tracks TRADE SHOW IMPRESSIONS with Jan Jaeger       From a popular seaside summer vacation playground in the mid-1800s to a frayed resort not so many years ago brought low by the increasing use of the automobile and airplane taking the traveling public to more exotic places, fast forward today to the striving and glittery skyline, the "Queen of the... More ...