I ON THE COURT
Nantucket Court Report
      Monday's District Court marked the potential beginning of three days of jury trials if defendants do not offer plea agreements or have their cases continued. Nine young people were arraigned on Aug. 5 charges of violating the town's noise bylaw stemming from a party at 22 Evergreen Way.
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Kermit Roosevelt
101 Sankaty Road
      Where is your house in relation to the Bluff? "We live in a house on Sankaty Road, which is not threatened by erosion." How long have you been a member of SBPF? "Since the beginning, I was a founding member of SBPF's predecessor group, which began in 1988 and I have been a member of SBPF...
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Taken out to the ballpark
by Peter B. Brace Independent Writer
      Just into the second inning of the first game of a doubleheader between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, my three-year-old nephew, Rory, climbs over his mother and, kneeling on his father's lap, strains in my direction to tell me something extremely important.
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I ON SELECTMEN
      AT ITS MEETING TONIGHT, AUG. 8, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN WILL: • Hear a request for fee waivers from Nantucket Homes for People, tabled from last week's meeting. • Hear a town administrator's request to set an annual application fee for people on the taxi license waiting list.
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Field Notes
      TERMINAL THOUGHTS Nantucket Memorial Airport will be breaking ground on the new addition to its terminal in early October.
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The Real Estate Report
with Robert Ranney
      With July gone under a veil of fog, summer is half over and August is upon us. As for the real estate market, can we gleam anything useful from market statistics so far for 2007? Let's take a look. For the first seven months of 2007, there have been 222 total transactions worth a total of approxi...
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YACK on: Bad PR
Grant Sanders
      You know Nantucket is having a bad PR day when there are, not one, but two reports of altercations in which someone pulls out a gun and starts threatening people with it.
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