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Nantucket police blotter for the week ending Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Information provided by the Nantucket Police Department. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Tuesday, June 23 7:38 p.m. Jary V. Valenzuela, 18, of 14 Celtic Drive, was arrested at Old South Road and Young's Way on a charge of driving without a license. More ... Islanders Charles R. Pearl, 36, and Jason Schell, 32, were arraigned in Monday's district court after being arrested and charged with breaking into Dan's Pharmacy on June 28 with intent to commit a felony. According to police, shortly before 4 a.m. on Sunday, a witness reported two white males wearing masks at the back door of the drug store in Bayberry Court. More ... Justin N. Ramut, 29, of Westport, Mass., is being held in the Barnstable House of Correction on $10,000 bail after his arrest last Thursday on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a shod foot) and unarmed robbery. Ramut was arrested at 4 Sparks Ave. for the incident which allegedly occurred around 4:30 p.m. last Wednesday in the South Shore beach area. More ... In any battle it helps to have an ally and for children diagnosed with autism, there could be no stronger and more devoted advocates than summer residents Bob and Suzanne Wright, cochairs of the nonprofit Autism Speaks. The Wrights founded Autism Speaks in 2005, a year after their grandson Christian was diagnosed with autism. More ... Chayce David Goudailler was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on June 29, 2009 weighing 6 pounds and 2 ounces. He is the son of Christina Ciarmataro and David Goudailler of Nantucket. His grandparents are William and Trina Ciarmataro of Nantucket, and Bill and Jane Goudailler of Wakefield, R.I. His great-grandparents are Dorothy Richard of Hardwick, Vt. More ... Olga A. Hansen died on June 17, 2009 at the age of 88. Born in New Bedford, Mass. August 30, 1920 to Hjalnar A. and Theresa S. Anderson, Mrs. Hansen lived on Nantucket most of her life. In later years, she resided in Hyannis, Mass. and more recently lived with her son. She was predeceased by her loving husband, Arne W. Hansen and her parents. More ... Owen Matthew Hardiman celebrated his first birthday on June 29, 2009. His parents are Matthew and Shauna Hardiman of Nantucket. His grandparents are Phil and Maureen DiLuca of Nantucket and David and Patricia Hardiman of Weymouth, Mass. His great-grandparents are John and Mary Fee of Nantucket. More ... Miles Jaycob Palmieri celebrated his first birthday Saturday June 20. He is the son of Christine Palmieri and Peter Sutters Jr. of Nantucket and grandson of Joseph and Susan Palmieri of Lyndonville, Vt. and Peter and Debra Sutters of Colebrook, N.H. More ... Falconer Chris Bonelli has lost two red-tailed hawks not to old age or predators of hawks, but to electrocution. The hawks, which he trains for hunting died when they tried to perch on the tops of telephone poles cluttered with a jumble of uninsulated electrical wires. More ... These young musicians set up shop outside Aunt Leah's Fudge yesterday and played for spare change. More ... Although surrounded by roughly 82 miles of sandy beach, only three to four miles of it is owned by the town and the Nantucket Islands Land Bank; the rest is owned by private property owners. On Nantucket, because of the long-standing benevolent attitude of most waterfront property owners, you get a pass to beach paradise. But not without a few catches here and there. More ... The young men and women of the United Kingdom's Christ's College at the University of Cambridge have performed all over the world, but are making their first tour stop on Nantucket for a concert on July 7 at the First Congregational Church. More ... It is the age-old question that haunts the human curiosity: How did we get here and what is our purpose? Tonight, Wednesday, July 1, the Maria Mitchell Association's director of astronomy Vladimir Strelnitski will give the talk "Does the Universe Have a Goal?" at 7 p.m. in the Atheneum's Great Hall. More ... New Orleans author Whitney Stewart spent several months on Nantucket after she and her family were evacuated by helicopter from the roof of a building where they were trapped during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. More ... This guy knows beaches. When Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Florida International University in Miami, Fla. is not studying the shore and its environmental matters, according to his Web site, www.drbeach.org/ — he is living another life as Dr. Beach. More ... |
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