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Columns June 25, 2008
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Linda Loring in Cyberspace!
      Nearly a year after hiring Kitty Pochman as her executive director and E. Vernon Laux as property manager and resident naturalist, the Linda Loring Nature Foundation (LLVF) is now online at llnf.org. Throughout the summer, the LLNF is holding open houses to introduce its property to island reside...
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The Purest Form of Democracy
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE PUBLISHER
      A couple of weeks ago, at the ballot, about 20 percent of Nantucket's voters overwhelmingly defeated three overrides passed by a huge majority of the seven percent of the voters who attended Town Meeting. At the time, it seemed that our dog was being wagged by the tail - or perhaps it was two tai...
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The Kitty Cadre
      T here are island organizations that cannot function without volunteer help. Nantucket Cat Rescue (NCR) is one of them. Charged with identifying and managing our island feral cat population, NCR volunteers humanely trapped over 1,000 feral cats over a period of several years, using the Trap-Neuter...
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Back to Burgundy
By Leslie-Ann Sheppard
      After a pretty magical week in the Provence and Rhone Valley wine regions of France, my husband and I drove the National Road north into Burgundy and into the storybook village of Beaune, where we would spend week number two of our 2008 French wine adventure.
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