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Bruno Latici BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER You read about islanders who are in the public eye all the time, but what do you know about your neighbors - those you see at the supermarket, the gas station, at school or just in passing on the street? More ...
Family plans to close bed & breakfast BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER Another piece of island history will soon disappear as the Wade Greene family prepares to close its 'Sconset bed and breakfast and has already placed their two vacation rental cottages up for sale. More ... ON THE COURT Nantucket Court Report In Monday's District Court, Ryan J. Cahill, 23, of 19 South Water St., admitted to marijuana possession on Aug. 24 and had his case continued without a finding for six months. Darlene Cheverie, 42, of Sudbury, Mass., charged Aug. 25 with driving under the influence of alcohol and driving outsi... More ...
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT WRITER Historian and veteran teacher Barbara White will serve as interim principal at the Cyrus Peirce School, returning to the school where she was a respected teacher for over 30 years. White, who retired from teaching three years ago, assumes the position vacated by fellow colleague Lynn Kalman, who ... More ...
Josh Posner 77 Baxter Road Where is your house in relation to the Bluff? Our house is about a dozen houses south of Sankaty Light. Just a year ago, we moved it back away from the edge of the bluff as far as we could toward Baxter Road. We were about 30 feet away and now we are now about 95 feet away. More ... Amid protests Planning Board approves Gardner Road development, 3-2 Five lots also proposed off East Creek Road, behind Marine Lumber BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER Before a packed room of angry neighbors and abutters questioning its reviewing procedures and general logic, the Planning Board approved the controversial Pippen's Way subdivision by a 3-1 vote Monday night. More ... FY09 budget projections released Backing up a recent statement by the town's Human Resources director that employees are the government's most costly asset, budget projections for FY09 show that salaries and benefits consume 69 percent of the fiscal pie. More ...
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER The Nantucket Lighthouse School's new 6,800- square-foot, two-story building, designed by Architect Steven Blashfield of Chip Webster & Associates and built by Blue Star Construction along with scores of parent volunteers, will be ready for the 2007/2008 school year when its doors open on Sept. 5. More ... GHYC seeks land dispute resolution with the town BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER Great Harbor Yacht Club is asking the town to agree to disagree with it on ownership of a disputed parcel of land running along the southern side of its bulkhead so it can use its Marine Travelift to launch and haul larger boats. More ...
New town shellfish biologist works on propagation, predator control BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER Jeff Mercer is making Second Bend into a nursery for the just under one million scallop seed he is growing out next to the town's marine lab on Brant Point. More ... BIRTHS E than Danahey Congleton was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Aug. 13, 2007 weighing 8 pounds and 3 ounces. He is the son of W. Lindsay and Kirsten Congleton of Nantucket. His grandparents are Charlie and Isabelle Congleton of Chapel Hill, N.C. and George and Diane Metcalfe of Nantucket. His... More ...
The Maria Mitchell Association (MMA) Aquarium set an all-time record for attendance this summer on Wednesday, Aug. 22 when the 6,000th guests entered the front door of its 28 Washington Street facility. More ... Milestones R obert B. Caron, graduate of Nantucket High School in 2002 and of Hobart College in 2006 has completed the Unites States Marine Officer Candidates School Training Command at Quantico, Virginia. The Training and Commissioning ceremonies took place on August 10, 2007. More ...
AT ITS MEETING ON AUG. 22, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, CONVENING AS THE BOARD OF HEALTH: • Denied a request for a waiver of a penalty fee from the owner of One Love market. The health department levied a $600 fee against the business on Aug. 6, maintaining that it was open and making sales prior to becoming licensed. More ... etcetera 1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends ELECTRIC CABLE OVERHEATS; MAIN ST. BUSINESSES LOSE POWER Power was shut off to about 12 businesses on one side of Main Street about 10:20 a.m. yesterday after an underground electrical wire outside the Even Keel restaurant overheated and began to smoke. More ... Director presents information, statistics on town employees BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER The town's Human Resources director Pat Perris, who began her job last December, is taking an in-depth look at the salaries and living costs for municipal workers as well as where training and employment conditions are satisfactory or need improvement. More ... Life-Saving Museum to break ground on new addition Monday The Egan Maritime Foundation, the parent organization for the Nantucket Life Saving Museum, plans to build an addition to the museum, and to break ground for the project on Monday, September 3, at 4 p.m. at 158 Polpis Road. Members, friends and guests of the museum are invited to attend. More ... |
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