Nantucket, MA

PDF of print edition Voters defeat override for bus hub BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       Residents yesterday rejected a tax override request to allow the town to buy 10 and 12 Washington St. for shuttle bus parking. The ballot result was 759 against the purchase and 454 in favor, with 1,213 registered voters, or 14.9 percent, turning out at the polls either in person or through absent... More ... Sports, social club proposed for West End Madaket property is under agreement BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       Jamie Feeley, a partner in Cottage and Castle, Inc., wants to buy the West End restaurant from Ande Grennan and turn the building into a social club with a sports outfitting service for members. "Everything right now is conceptual. More ... NANTUCKET'S PONDS WORTH FIGHTING FOR BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER       She is a Happy Hooker. Kathy Kelliher, namesake of the Nantucket Anglers' Club Kathy Kelliher Fall Pond Fishing Tournament, fishes for chain pickerel, white perch, yellow perch, sunfish and, if she can catch this particularly elusive fish, crappy. More ... Ice Cream Man heads south on charitable mission BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       Ben Shelton, the Ice Cream Man who brought joy to island children this summer, will become Bicycle Man on Sunday when he loads his 1970 Ford step van, still decorated for the ice cream business, with bicycles intended for poor Mexican farmers to help them earn needed family income. More ...