ANOTHER ROAD TO THE BEER
For some strange reason, the guys out at Cisco Brewers, Triple-Eight Distillery and Nantucket Vineyards attract a curiously large number of people at their libation oasis amidst fields of flowers, vegetables and horses at 5 and 7 Bartlett Farm Road. So much so that their lone narrow access driveway is frequently clogged with Field

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customers and staff going to and from their compound.

Seeking a freer flowing of traffic and less congestion on Bartlett Farm Road with one way in and one way out, this group of local businesses sought and secured a second driveway from the Planning Board at its meeting on April 14. The current driveway is the first turn off Bartlett Farm Road. The Planning Board, by unanimous vote, granted the applicants, Dean and Melissa Long, the ability to expand a path at the northeast corner of their property into a second driveway.

Upon entering the property using the new oneway driveway when it is ready, patrons will find 16 parking spaces. Vehicles will then exit from the original entrance. All who intend to visit should consider riding their bicycles or carpooling to cut down on traffic.

OSPREYS DEAL WITH HELICOPTER On April 10, a pair of nesting ospreys on Jackson Point in Madaket co-existed without incident with a helicopter transporting building supplies to Esther Island.

The helicopter and pilot were contracted to airlift lumber, brick, stone, sand, mulch and other necessary building materials over to Esther Island from Jackson Point where they were hauled by truck, but thick fog grounded the vintage 1960s-era helicopter until early afternoon.

News of the close proximity of the helicopter's flight path to this pair of ospreys on a pole just west of the landing at the end of Jackson Point traveled fast among island birders seeking relief for the harried fish hawks. Local bird expert Edie Ray said that ospreys tend to return to the same nesting site year after year but they can be driven off depending on the situation. A helicopter flying back and forth near this nesting pair of ospreys could have pushed them to another nesting site because this disturbance is something new, said Ray.

"They'll come back to a pole over and over and over again," said Ray. "There are other poles on the island that are unoccupied, but they just haven't chosen them. They apparently have been actively nest building.

"If you're not a bird person, it might not ever have occurred that it was a problem."

Efforts to get the Conservation Commission to intervene proved unsuccessful as the ConCom though having reviewed Worden's notice of intent and permitted it with an order of conditions, does not have jurisdiction over the helicopter's flight path, as it was landing and taking off from an area that was not in a wetland nor a wetland buffer zone, said ConCom Administrator Dirk Roggeveen.

Neither Environmental Police Sgt. Officer Dean Belanger nor Town Beach Manager Jeff Carlson responded to this situation on Friday to enforce protection of the ospreys, which are not listed on the state's or the federal government's protected species lists.

Jack Whelen, project manager for the renovation of Worden's house, said that all the building supplies where shifted over to Esther Island later that day after the fog lifted and that the helicopter, guided by the Maria Mitchell Association's Director of Natural Science Bob Kennedy, avoided the ospreys as best as its pilot could, staying at least 100 yards away as he flew up the eastern beach of Madaket Harbor and channel to Esther Island.

"We were giving the ospreys as much of a berth as we could so they weren't too disturbed," said Whelen "We watched the helicopter fly for a couple hours and saw that ospreys were not disturbed."

Kennedy added that because the building supply airlift lasted just one day, the ospreys were not scared off from their nest.

"Ospreys are very adaptable," said Kennedy. "If this had happened over many days, it would have impacted them, but this was just one day. It was unfortunate, but they're very adaptable."

LILY POND HOUSE SWAP What looks like a dollhouse opened for its owner to play with its contents at 15 North Liberty St is actually part of an effort by the Nantucket Islands Land Bank to widen roadside views of its Lily Pond property.

The cottage, belonging to the Land Bank and until jacked up and sawed in half, used for Land Bank employee housing, is being moved to Architect Chip Webster's property, Webster having answered a Land Bank ad in island newspapers seeking any takers for the cottage, which the Land Bank did not need. On Nov. 29, 2006, the Land Bank got permission from the Historic District Commission to relocate this cottage and also to move the late Erna Blair's house at 19 Liberty St. to the cottage's empty lot.

This house swap to different lots allows the Land Bank to open what Land Bank Property Manager Bruce Perry calls the "view shed" of Lily Pond from North Liberty Street by about 800 feet. Blair's former house, built in 1820, is going to be renovated inside once moved to its new lot and after the Land Bank finds the funding to do the work.

CORRECTION

In Peter Brace's story concerning the Nantucket Dreamland Foundation hiring the architectural firm CBT of Boston in the March 26 issue of The Nantucket Independent, it was incorrectly reported that former Dreamland owner Haim Zahavi didn't get the permits he needed to reconstruct the theater. In fact, Zahavi did secure his major commercial development Special Permit from the Planning Board, received his Historic District Commission certificate of appropriateness and his Conservation Commission order of conditions. But Zahavi failed to secure a

building permit from the Building Department. I