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BY DANIEL W. DRAKE PUBLISHER
      OUR BEST REASONS FOR LIVING IN NANTUCKET: 1. The island's rugged beauty. 2. The ocean. 3. The fresh air. 4. The beautiful beaches. 5. Winter friends and summer friends. 6. September and October. 7. Any one or more of fresh bay scallops, mussels, stripers and blue fish.
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Nantucket Civic League annual meeting
      There are 10 issues that the Nantucket Civic League thinks deserve the town's closest attention. These issues will be dissected by the Nantucket Civic League at its annual meeting on Sept. 15 at the 'Sconset Casino at 4:30 p.m. Join the Civic League for a good rap session and refreshments afterwar...
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Bringing on the Weather
      News people have had a lot of work recently, what with the political conventions going on and such. The largely unknown governor of Alaska has managed to grab more than a few headlines of late, as has her counterpart from Pennsylvania-bornbut moved-to-Delaware counterpart Senator Biden.
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BALLOT QUESTION #3: THE GREYHOUND PROTECTION ACT
      "It 's a David vs. Goliath campaign, and we're David," explained Christine A. Dorchak, Esq., President of Grey2K USA, an advocacy organization for greyhounds nationwide, "but David has lots of friends.
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Devil Birds
BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      I thought about calling this column the "double puffin." No, it is nothing to do with the "big bad wolf" huffin' and puffin.' This is a bird that loves the wind. Alas though, it is not a puffin itself. In the Northern Wheatear column last week I mentioned the concept of a "double." That is a scie...
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