Nantucket, MA

PDF of print edition Meet Your Neighbor Laura Coffin BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       Date of birth March 12, 1984 Likes most about Nantucket Knowing everyone and the number of opportunites available. Like least about Nantucket That it's a small town where it is hard to be private when problems arise. More ... Nantucket Court Report       Marius Babinskas, 28, of 44 Surfside Road, had Jan. 26, 2007 charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, failing to wear a seat belt and a marked lanes violation dismissed after paying all associated court costs. More ... AT ITS MEETING ON MARCH 19, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:       • Approved a request for surplus property declarations at 14A Sparks Ave., and on Kent and Berkley Streets and Cliff Road, as was adopted at the 20007 Annual Town Meeting. • Approved an application by The Summer House Bistro for a change of manager for their seasonal all-alcohol resta... More ... etcetera 1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends       MESSAGE FOUND IN BOTTLE Of the 40 bottles with messages in them that Nantucket cod fishermen Pennel Ames and his 15-year-old daughter, Amelia, flung from his commercial fishing vessel, Kaos, on July 29, 2006 on his first trip that season, this bottle, above, was found on the beach La Palue in the... More ... Scientist hopes to spark student interest through "jolts and volts" SCHOOLS BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT WRITER       Students and teachers alike should be ready for an exhilarating look at science when Dr. John Cohn visits the island this Friday. Dr. More ... Small Friends raffles off minicar to help fund schoolhouse COMMUNITY BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER       Imagine a car 106 inches long that weighs 1,808 pounds, has enough room for two people, gets 33 miles per gallon in the city, 41 on the highway and costs $13,900. That car, the Smart Fortwo Passion Coupe, the first of its kind to come to Nantucket, will be raffled off this spring by Small Friends... More ... Community Events Calendar Read the Story...