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The Green Building movement on Nantucket
Windwalker Real Estate president Alan Worden received unanimous HDC approval last week to install solar panels and put up a wind turbine at a house on Esther Island. More...
HDC lambasts Point Breeze phase II plans
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER

The Historic District Commission found preliminary plans for phase II of the Point Breeze Hotel so objectionable the architect agreed to a complete redesign. "I think the whole thing needs to be redesigned and with the massing and everything I've seen about it, it is inappropriate," said HDC Chairman Dirk Roggeveen. More...

Island teens provided with a menu of activities
Aside from school-based choices, community offers variety of alternatives
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER

Third in series It is a fact that cannot be ignored - for many children both parents need to work to make ends meet. Generally speaking, it is safe to say that the days when children were greeted at home after school by an aproned mother holding a pan of freshly baked cookies are over. More...

 Other News
• On Nantucket, it's Obama, Romney
POLITICS
Island residents spoke with their votes today and chose Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to represent the Democratic and Republican parties respectively to be president of the United States of America. Voter turnout was large with 3,336 people filled in the ovals for the man, or woman, whom they thought was best fit to lead the country. More...
• article has image Meet Your Neighbor
• article has image Mildred M. Daniels, educator, ardent supporter of African Meeting House, dies at 95
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 The Arts
• article has image MUSIC MAN COMES TO NHS STAGE
Get ready for some foot tapping when Nantucket middle and high school students take to the stage this weekend to present "Music Man," a popular Broadway hit in the 1950s that was made into two film versions. More...
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• article has image Ms. O's fourth graders celebrate artist and activist Corita Kent
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 Opinion
• LETTERS
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WATER TOWER WOES The following letter was sent to the Wannacomet Water Company and is reprinted here at the author's request. To the commissioners: The purpose of this letter is to voice our concern over your recent decision to require that Wannacomet Water Company place the name NANTUCKET in bold block letters on its to be constructed water tower off Polpis Road. More...
• article has image GREY MATTER by James Cennamo
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 Sports
• article has image Records fall during BCC championships
Three Nantucket High School records fell during Saturday's Bay Colony Conference swimming and diving championships, held on Nantucket for the first time since 1997. Beau Garufibroke the 200-yard freestyle record of 1.55.97 set by Luther Blount in 1999 with a new best time of 1.54.81. The junior also broke his own record in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1.02. More...
• article has image Ferreiras are a basketball family
• article has image Island Waves compete in Virginia
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 Developments
• HDC THIS WEEK
NEW DWELLINGS David Aguiar, 12 Surfside Drive Cynthia and Evan Jones, 21 Berkley Ave. ADDITIONS Ron Caplan, 62 Hulbert Ave. Susan Webster, 3 Folger Ave. Tony Bouscaren, 44 Burnell St. Laurence Maury, 33 Main St. More...
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 Columns
• article has image PLANNING FOR BOREDOM
Town Meeting is two months away, almost exactly. If it is two months away, then why are we even thinking about it? Because last week's headline announced that there are 125 Articles in the Warrant, a record number. Even Hawkeye took notice, as he swooped by me the other afternoon. More...
• article has image YACK on: A post-NFLlife
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 Property Profile
• article has image MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
Sanford Real Estate $1,795,000
The neighborhood around the property at 26 Hummock Pond Road is mature and moderately dense. But you'd never know it, standing in the middle of the property- even in winter. The dense shrubs and trees, plus a long pea gravel driveway, give you the impression that it is the only house in the neighborhood. Well, actually, not one house, but two. More...
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 Property Transfers
• article has image Jan. 28, 2008 ~ Feb. 1, 2008
4. A house on .65 of an acre at 17 Hinckley Lane sold to Edward K. Mills, Trustee of the Edward K. Mills, III Trust dated November 2, 2005, of West Lake Hills, Texas from Edward K. Mills, II of Austin, Texas for $300,000. The property is assessed at $2,981,700. The land bank fee is $6,000. More...
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