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Wendy Schmidt and her husband Eric, CEO of Google, have been longtime summer residents. Wendy Schmidt first made headlines in October 2007 by stepping in to buy the former Island Spirits property at 10 and 12 Washington St. for use as a shuttle bus transportation center. More ... At the end of February, high school student Angela Paterson performed a perfect fast break lay-up during a game with Provincetown that resulted in a basket shot earning her 1,000th point. The drop-in placed her as the seventh Nantucket student hoopster to win that personal score and the second local student to attain the status this year. More ... Cheryl Bartlett is the link between the members of the Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund and the island, state and federal authorities that hold sway over the fate of the beaches in front of their properties from Sankaty Head Lighthouse down to Codfish Park. More ... Nantucket's legislative liaison Tim Madden ran for Eric Turkington's seat in the State House and won by a landslide. After 20 years, Turkington retired from being the Cape and Islands state representative, leaving the door open for Madden, the island's legislative liaison for the last 10 years, to run for the Democratic seat. More ... Since humans and bay scallops share identical gene sequences, it is only natural that we would want to learn all that we can about them. Dr. Steve Estabrooks, a medical technologist at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, and 16-year-old Leah Blount, a Nantucket High School junior, teamed up to study scallops. More ... Islanders were shocked when former Madaket resident William "Howe" Constable was arrested last fall on numerous child pornography charges and subsequently pleaded guilty to the charges in a March 2008 federal court hearing. Constable, 53, had been an assistant coach with the Nantucket High School sailing team and lived on C Street in Madaket. More ... In July, the Nantucket Police Department released a 300-page report on an incident involving the treatment of seven black youths by police that occurred in August 2007 and is known as the Broad Street incident. More ... When Rev. Nancy Nelson learned that one of her parishioners, a Salvadorian immigrant, was willing to advance the money to ship Wilber Pena's body back to his home country of El Salvador, Nelson, pastor of the Methodist Church, offered that the church would advance the money. More ... With the sudden deaths of three Nantucket High School students and one recent Nantucket High School graduate during the 18 month period ending August 2008, Peter Swenson, executive director of Nantucket Behavioral Health has headed up counseling services for the school and community. More ... Although he did not make any friends among scallopers by announcing the state's new regulation concerning the taking of bay scallops at the Oct. 21 Shellfish & Harbor Advisory Board meeting, Marine Department superintendent Dave Fronzuto did help save the commercial scallop season. More ... The credit crisis hit Nantucket hard this October, sending shockwaves through the island, when Sherburne Commons, the non-profit assisted living facility on 21 South Shore Road, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. More ... Robert Pellicone, superintendent of schools, announced in March before his annual evaluation that, given the state of the school's finances, he would not accept a raise. At that time, Pellicone could not have predicted how bleak the school's financial picture would look in the fall and into the next fiscal year. More ... The $27.5 million public safety complex that would have housed the fire and police departments and the sheriff's office was approved at Town Meeting 2008, yet was defeated this June at the polls. The selectmen appointed a Citizen Advisory Board, after the public safety complex was voted down to study the need for the facility and to make recommendations. More ... As of September, it was anything but business as usual for the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. At roughly the same juncture, the theater board learned it was losing its Methodist Church stage and decided to eliminate the producing director position held by Jordana Fleischut, in the midst of her three-year contract that began in April 2007. More ... All of Nantucket's scallopers would surely love it if the biggest news of 2008 concerning Nantucket's bay scallop fishery, the last remaining economically viable fishery of its kind on the East Coast, was their harvest of 16,800 bushels, more than triple the haul of the previous season. More ... The feeling of safety from living in the densely populated neighborhoods of the mid-island area were shattered in July when a still-unknown assailant entered a Bartlett Road home in the early morning hours of July 12 and sexually assaulted a woman over a period of several hours. More ... Islanders this year experienced an economic roller coaster ride as gas prices spiraled to the $5 mark this summer and did not drop into the $3 range until late fall. More ... February started with the varsity boys' and girls' basketball teams making the playoffs, going 6-0 in the Lighthouse League. The girls reached the South Sectional D4 semifinals before bowing out with a stellar 20-3 record. The boys, in the tournament for the fourth consecutive year, lost in the second round ending with a 15-7 record. More ... Clockwise from upper left, Police Chief William Pittman led a promotion ceremony in December; Pam Diem starred in "Blown Sideways," a one-woman show at TWN; the rapidly evolving shell of Nantucket Memorial Airport's terminal; Ernie Steinauer uses his bike to get around Nantucket: "It's good exercise. It saves money. It's good for the environment. It's easy to park." At left, the door of a 'Sconset cottage is crusted with snow in a January nor'easter that packed wind gusts up to 56 mph. More ... Clockwise from left, town moderator Sarah Alger confers with town counsel Paul DeRensis at a Special Town Meeting in December; a Yates Gas propane truck crunched an SUV at the corner of Washington and Francis streets; NHS Junior Angela Paterson made a layup on her way to reaching 1,000 points in March (photo by Michael Galvin); cast members in "Pirates of Penzance" at the 'Sconset Casino in July; the familiar compass rose on the Ralph Lauren building was restored. More ... Since the Nantucket Dreamland Foundation bought the nearly gutted South Water Street theater on Oct. 3, 2007 for $9.8 million, the new owners - summer residents Philippe Laffont, Barry Sternlicht and James Pallotta - have moved quickly with their plans to renovate the 177-year-old historic building. More ... They are an entity with the singular purpose of protecting their properties from erosion, but not one with enough power to hold back the ocean right now. The Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund got stuck in the sand this year after the discovery of beds of blue mussels where it planned to dredge up 1. More ... |
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