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BY SAM TOOLE INDEPENDENT INTERN As a child, you maneuver your Hotwheels cars around the house. When you grow older, you sit on your couch and weave cars through different regions of the world in computer-generated giant races. Finally the day comes when you no longer have to pretend to drive. You can sit down, start up the engi... More ... I ON THE COURT Nantucket Court Report There were 14 people listed for arraignment in Monday's District Court, but four of those arraignments were postponed until Spanish and Portuguese interpreters will be available. The case against Laurent P. Araujo, 25, of 18D Sparks Avenue, was dismissed after he paid due court costs. He was ch... More ... The Real Estate Report with Robert Ranney If we only knew then, what we know now. Real estate trends are often difficult to gauge until well after the fact. Most economists are now suggesting that our most recent 'boom' actually peaked in mid 2005, based on statistics available now. 2006 is now being considered a slowing year, with 2007 c... More ...
AT ITS MEETING TONIGHT, JUNE 13, THE SELECTMEN WILL: + Consider a citizen request for waiver of the noise by-law for a wedding on July 14, 2007. + Hear a review of the Municipal Space Needs Option Study. More ...
During the winters of 2002/2003 and 2003/2004, extreme cold decimated Nantucket's population of barn owls. Bird experts from the Maria Mitchell Association, other birders and property owners with barn owl nesting boxes on their land were hard-pressed to find any eggs, young or any adult in these ... More ...
CHECK OUT THAT HORIZONTAL STABILIZER! The annual Airport Day at ACK is set for Saturday, June 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the ramp to the left of the Administration Building. Visitors can meet t.he people who make the Airport work, see airplanes, fire trucks, snowplows and other equipment and ... More ...
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER The United States is a land of immigrants. Nantucket has been a land of opportunity, first for the Cape Verdeans who came back with the whaling ships and, in the last decade or so, for a steady stream of people from other places who have come to earn money and help make the economy hum. More ...
Grant Sanders This Monday evening, I paid a visit to the Planning Board meeting at the Two Fairgrounds Road facility which, a few years back, was the Nantucket Electric building. For those of you who have never been to a Planning Board meeting, and if you're looking for something to do on a slow Monday evening... More ...
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 v... More ...
One in four is not great odds. And yet, only one in four cats and kittens entering our nation's shelters each year are adopted into loving homes. Out of the millions of cats and kittens passing through our shelter systems, approximately 70% are euthanized due to health or space issues. More ...
Father's Day is this Sunday, June 17. I'm sure many moms have planned for this day well in advance, purchasing tokens of love for their mate and having their children ponder platitudes of filial care in anticipation of bestowing accolades on their father at the appropriate time. For the rest of u... More ...
A GOOD STARTER BIRD This was a bird I learned quickly as a young birder for several reasons. First, it is well named. If nothing else this bird is black and white. Since my family was in the newspaper business one of the earliest jokes I learned was, "What is black and white and read all over?" This has always stuck ... More ... |
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