Nantucket, MA

PDF of print edition Meet Your Neighbor Bill Brown BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       It would be easy to mistake Bill Brown for a government employee since he spends as many hours in the town building as anyone on the payroll. Except for a lunch break, Brown can be found mornings and afternoons Monday through Friday at the Registry of Deeds where for nearly 20 years he has worked ... More ... Boys & Girls Club partners with Hopeful School in Tanzania BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       With a mission to foster literacy and the concept of the global human family, children and staff members of Nantucket's Boys & Girls Club are partnering with students and staff of the Hopeful School in the small Tanzanian village of Sing-isi. More ... A beacon of navigational safety for 157 years "BLAZING STAR" BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       Bearing a distinctive, wide red stripe around its middle, Sankaty Head Light has stood sentinel for mariners for 157 years, protecting them from the many treacherous shoals off Nantucket's eastern shore. More ... $26 million purchase will preserve land and rural road at Eel Point BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER       Preserving around .87 of a mile of Eel Point Road near 40th Pole beach cost $26.5 million last week. Nantucket Lot 51, LLC, the blind trust that purchased 9.5 acres at 135 and 137 Eel Point Road from Calm Waters Trust, reportedly wants to save the land from being carved up into five lots and a po... More ... WATCHING THE MOVE 'Sconset Trust deals with curious public BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER       With the imminent move of Sankaty Head Light, and the expected media coverage of the historic relocation, security preparations are already brewing. More ... VOICES FROM THE BLUFF SBPF Speaks AN INDEPENDENT SERIES John Osborne 75 Baxter Road       This week The Nantucket Independent continues a series of interviews with members of the Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund to get behind the meeting rhetoric and to learn why they joined the fight to slow erosion of the More ... Nantucket Harbor among the cleanest in the state BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER       Nantucket Harbor is nearly at the point of being the cleanest harbor in the state, if not for nitrogen-loading caused by development around its shores, rain and airborne particles. That assessment comes from Dr. More ... etcetera 1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends       PILOT REMAINS HOSPITALIZED AFTER CRASH Thomas J. Jackson, the pilot of the Cirrus SR20 airplane that crashed off Low Beach Road on Aug. 17, remains hospitalized in fair condition at Massachusetts General Hospital. MGH spokesperson Emily Parker said Jackson's vital signs are stable but was unable ... More ... OBITUARY       R obert S. Salisbury, M.D., beloved husband of Geraldine Gardiner Salisbury, died of pancreatic cancer on August 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. He was 76 years old. Born in New York City, Dr. Salisbury graduated from Walden School and CCNY (now CUNY), with a master's degree from Columbia Unive... More ...