Field Notes

TERMINAL THOUGHTS Nantucket Memorial Airport will be breaking ground on the new addition to its terminal in early October.

The scope of the work and how it will impact travelers are questions that will be answered at a community information meeting sponsored by the Nantucket Airport Commission on Aug. 15. The meeting will cover how travelers' needs will be met during construction of the new terminal addition; plans for the groundbreaking ceremony; how the addition is designed to fit in with the existing structure and what amenities will be.

As currently planned, all secure flights will pass through the new wing and all baggage will be screened there through the Transportation Safety Administration's new baggage screening equipment. Parking will remain the same, as will the drop off and pick up configuration. Another part of the plan is the expansion of the main terminal to add more office and ticket counter space by removing maintenance storage below the air traffic control tower, and widening that part of the terminal northward so ticket counters all will be located in the same area.

The informational meeting is at the Nantucket New School at 15 Nobadeer Farm Road at 4 p.m. For details, call 325-5300 or check out the airport's Web site at www.nantucketairport.com.

DRAW, PAINT AND COLOR Are you as much at home in the Nantucket wilderness as you are at an easel or drawing tablet, and between the ages of five and 13? If so, the Maria Mitchell Association needs your artistic, naturalist help in designing its 2008 children's and Discovery class T-shirts. Entries should be submitted to the Maria Mitchell Association by Sept. 1. The winning designer receives a T-shirt exhibiting the new design and a family membership for the 2008 season.

SHAB'S SUMMER SCHEDULE During the summer it can be hard to keep track of important town review and advisory board meetings. With all our hectic beach, barbeque and fishing schedules, who has the time to even get to a meeting? Well, some of us do and in case you were wondering when the next Shellfish & Harbor Advisory Board (SHAB) meeting is, it's on Aug. 21.

During July and August, SHAB meets just once a month, partly because of the aforementioned scheduling issues. SHAB resumes its bi-weekly schedule of meeting the first and third Tuesdays of each month in September.

PLANNING SEMANTICS Hans Dalgaard, owner of Easy Riders bike rentals on Boynton Lane who is proposing housing units with underground parking and a new space for Easy Riders at 65 Surfside Road, is not building four duplexes on the site as previously reported. He plans to build four duplex halves with two bedrooms in each.

CLARIFICATION In The Nantucket Independent's July 27 story on the Linda Loring Nature Foundation's hiring of Kathryn "Kitty" Pochman as its executive director, a point of clarification should be made as to the uses allowed on Loring's property.

Loring owns 270 acres on nine lots off Eel Point Road. She sold the development rights to the Nantucket Land Council for $14 million in the form of a conservation restriction. Through her foundation, Loring plans to build an environmental education center geared toward the island's youth that will include a barn-like structure to serve as a base of operations for the center, cut nature trails through the property and place bird-viewing blinds around the North Head of Hummock Pond. As part of her conservation restriction agreement with the Land Council, Loring reserved the right to build a helicopter landing pad. That option has nothing to do with the nature center, although it would share the conservation property with the nature center.

Anyone who chooses a conservation restriction can stipulate uses of the property as part of the agreement with the steward organization. Many times a building envelope

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