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UNITED WAY'S $50,000 GRANT TO FUND NANTUCKET STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM The Cape & Islands United Way has awarded a grant of $50,000 to Nantucket Family and Children's Services to help fund a coordinator position for the proposed Student Assistance Program. The proposed program will assist in addressing the many concerns involving youth and teens on Nantucket.

"The Cape and Islands United Way is grateful to be able to assist in the development of this important program," said Richard Brothers, President of the Cape and Islands United Way. "We are thankful there is an agency like Nantucket Family and Children's Services that is so well positioned to address the needs of youth and teens on Nantucket."

The Cape & Islands United Way supports the efforts of various human services providers through community impact grant funding designed to help those in need on Cape Cod & the Islands.

CLUB MODIFICATION Last week, both the Great Harbor Yacht Club and the Westmoor Club received unanimous Planning Board approval to modify their existing major commercial development special permits.

Great Harbor will move the location of its clubhouse 50 feet west to allow use of its Travelift instead of the 30-ton crane it had proposed to use. The extra space between the east end of the clubhouse and the end of the wharf allows the Travelift enough room to operate. Ownership of the 1,440-foot wedge of land along the southern boundary of club property is still being disputed in court by the club and the town. This alteration also increases the club's ability to haul boats. The modification includes a slight reconfiguration of parking - but no loss of spaces - and some modifications to decks and porches on the building. Both the Historic District Commission and Conservation Commission have granted permits to the club for these changes.

Westmoor will move its previously approved lap swimming pool and bathhouse to where it originally sited its putting green. The putting green will be relocated next to the paddle tennis courts. Other modifications include moving a maintenance building next to the tennis courts on West Chester Street and redesigning the gravel access road.

TREASURES IN YOUR TRASH Rather than leave your old cathode ray tube television at the landfill, ditch your collection of deck furniture at the Take It Or Leave It, or take your scrap lumber to the clean wood pile, there is now a greener way to dispose of all your otherwise usable waste.

You can now unload your unwanted items on www.nantucketreuseexchange. com, ReX for short.

Founded by Nantucketers Karen Alence and Tom Barnes, the Nantucket Reuse Exchange is an online clearinghouse of sorts for Nantucketers who no longer have use for certain, still-usable possessions, but don't want them to end up in the landfill. ReX helps other islanders get used consumer goods they need and also donates goods to island charities. Set up similarly to an online classifieds listing, the Nantucket Reuse Exchange allows free postings of items on its site and encourages Nantucketers to give the proceeds of their sale items to the charities listed on its site. It also serves as a medium for virtual yard sales.

PROVOST TO LEAD WORKSHOP AT CONFERENCE David Provost, head of school of the Nantucket New School, and David Faus, head of Falmouth Academy, will lead a workshop to review issues surrounding small schools at the National Association of Independent School's 2008 Annual Conference in New York City, Feb. 27 to March 1.

The four-day conference attracts over 5,000 educators from all across the country and world by offering an extensive schedule of speakers, panel discussions, meetings, and over 140 one-hour workshops.

The two school leaders will discuss the challenges facing small schools including financial, cultural and programmatic. They will then look at the distinct advantages of small schools and evaluate how to best maximize them, and will introduce opportunities for collaboration, creative decision-making and unique programming that define small schools.

NNS and Falmouth Academy will host The Small School Conference in Falmouth, Mass., on June 18-20. That conference will focus on issues and topic concerning today's small independent school. Using key-note speakers, interest groups and case studies, the conference will include opportunities to network, share best practices and hear from leading small school practitioners.

Falmouth Academy enrolls 225 students in grades 7-12. Nantucket New School has 139 students in pre-school through grade eight.

For more information about the NAIS workshop and The Small School

Conference, call Cecil Barron Jensen at 508-680-1022. I