Chris Maury named new athletic director
BY PETER A. SUTTERS JR. INDEPENDENT WRITER
      It is as if the job were tailor made for him, blending experience from both his professional and personal lives. For Chris Maury, island builder and unabashed sports enthusiast, it represents many years of dedication to craft and sport, which culminate in this new chapter of his life: Athletic Director of Nantucket High School.
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A FEW BAD APPLES
      Another Memorial Day weekend is in the books, and with it, another Figawi is behind us. This year, I actually took part in the Figawi, racing from Hyannis to Nantucket aboard Zingara, with Chris Magee at the helm.
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
NANTUCKET'S KOOKABURRA?
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      Perhaps you remember an old camp song that went, "Kookaburra up in the ol' gum tree, Merry-merry king of the bush is he." Back then I didn't know what a gum tree or a kookaburra was, but I knew one of them laughed and both were something to sing about.
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