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HARBOR PLAN IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE GETS TO WORK Before state officials can finish their review of Nantucket's revised harbors plan, the island's Harbor Plan Implementation Committee is already putting the inch-thick document into action.

Because the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and the Department of Environmental Protection are primarily concerned that the elements of Nantucket's new harbors plan (as related to the Chapter 91 Waterways Program) meshes with water-related uses protocol, the rest of the recommendations in the plan are fair game.

Meeting for a second time, and after electing UMass/Boston Nantucket Field Station manager Dr. Sarah Oktay chairman, Leslie Johnson vice chairman and Peter Boyce secretary, the new committee got right to work sorting out where to begin and how to process the recommendations. The 2007 Nantucket and Madaket Harbors Action Plan is composed of recommendations for managing the uses of the harbor, which means that the cooperation of town department heads, the Board of Selectmen and Town Manager Libby Gibson is required.

To accomplish this, the committee divided the plan by section - commercial and recreational fishing, access, tourism, downtown waterfront, harbor safety, water quality, natural resources and Madaket Harbor - with each member taking a section of the plan to work on.

"We're all taking a section and will present them to each other," said Oktay. "We're first ironing out amongst ourselves what items are priority items and how long will they take. Some items may take five years, some items might take one phone call."

After each committee member reviews a set number of recommendations, they will vote on them and send them to Gibson who will choose who in the town will put them into action.

"We would submit our recommendations, let's say we feel there are zoning laws that would increase setbacks, then we make that recommendation to Libby [Gibson] and say this is our year-one priority and here's who we feel you should contact on this," said Oktay in detailing the actions needed for the recommendations to come to life. "She would run this by the selectmen and make her recommendations, then it would be up to her to call the department heads to contact the harbor committee to make a time to meet with them."

The new harbor planning committee meets the second and fourth Thursdays of every month at 5 p.m. at the Planning Department offices at 2 Fairgrounds Road.

BENNETT THUMPS REPUBLICAN DRUM Former Nantucket Selectman Doug Bennett has been named campaign manager for former Billerica Selectman and Republican State Representative Brion Cangiamilla in his quest to win the open state Senate seat in the 4th Middlesex District in the December 11 2007 Special Election.

Since leaving office in April, Bennett has now served as a campaign manager for the GOP in two special elections. Most recently, he was unanimously elected secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of Young Republicans, a post he will hold until Spring 2009 with the duty of marketing the Young Republicans statewide.

Bennett served as Nantucket Selectman and County Commissioner from April 2004 to April 2007.

ROCK GARDEN Bob Gardner and Jeffrey Johnson of the Wannacomet Water Co. have donated several large rocks to Small Friends on Nantucket with the help of Bortolotti Construction.

The rocks were dug up on Milk Street during recent work and transported to Small Friends on Nobadeer Farm Rd. Small Friends has placed the largest of the rocks, a pink "whale of a rock," at the entrance to the property and will have its name engraved on the rock in the coming year. The other rocks will be used in the outdoor play and nature areas.

FROM ONE STUDENT TO ANOTHER For many who do not call Nantucket home, it is hard to imagine what it would be like living on an island 30 miles out to sea. A group of school children from Connecticut will likely have a much better understanding after conducting a series of interviews with Nantucket residents,

On Oct. 17, from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., a group of students from the New Canaan Country Day School will visit the Nantucket New School's sixth-grade class and conduct interviews with their peers. At the same time, other groups of students will be interviewing people and groups all over the island. They will meet with restaurant owners, policemen, firemen, shopkeepers and many others in their search to learn about Nantucket. Ultimately, the students will produce a magazine to share with their school community.

"We are really looking forward to hosting the visitors from Connecticut," said Nantucket New School teacher Dennie Doran. "We are hoping there will be a chance for our students to turn things around and ask our guests about what it

is like to live somewhere other than Nantucket." I