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Nantucket police blotter for the week ending Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Information provided by the Nantucket Police Department. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Tuesday, June 30 7:44 p.m. More ... Last Wednesday's release of the state's draft Ocean Management Plan outlines specific areas for marine wind energy installations, two of them southwest of Nantucket. This sweeping document, the first in the U.S. More ... As hundreds of children nearby ate watermelon and pie, ran three-legged races and tried to dunk each other in water tanks on Main Street this Fourth of July, the Nantucket Tea Party was held on the steps of the Pacific National Bank building. More ... Historically, Nantucketers always place a huge emphasis on public access to the shoreline and inland roads around the island, which is why the town is embarking on a public way-marking program this summer. More ... Tonight the selectmen will decide on the terms of a lease with the Nantucket Hunting Association for a shooting range in Madequecham. The determination will include the size of the range and its placement. In 2004, Town Meeting authorized a lease for a recreational shooting facility on a 48.2-acre site owned by the town. More ... New York actor Louis Butelli is coming to the Atheneum on Saturday, July 11 and August 2 to present two intensive, five-hour classes in "Genius vs. Madness: Acting Shakespeare's Fools and Clowns. More ... June's nearly unrelenting cloudy, foggy, rainy weather and harbor pollution are the likely culprits contributing to a low survival rate of osprey chicks on Nantucket this summer. In particular, osprey nests in the eastern portion of the island are having the toughest time, but several osprey nests on the western half of the island are also struggling. More ... Thelonious Monk, "The Duke" Ellington, Cole Porter and other jazz greats will all be there on July 12 when the Matt Hutchinson Trio performs in concert at the Unitarian Universalist Church to raise funds for restoration of its 1831 Goodrich organ. More ... When Ursula Austin's Tai Chi instructor Kristofer Feeney went to China this year to visit his in-laws, he drafted Austin and trained her to teach the class until his return. "He trained me intensively for weeks," said Austin. "He taught me the Steel Fan, the Long Pole, Chen Style and Yang Style of Tai Chi. 'You'll have all this to fall back on,' he said. More ... Paul Seinferth doesn't seem like a man who would take unnecessary chances when it comes to selling his 7,500 sq. ft. mansion in Shimmo. The 62-year-old grandfather of four and business man who owns and operates Styles Holdings, a rental apartment business in Georgia, Alabama and Ohio, owns two estates on Nantucket - one in Shimmo and the other in Shawkemo. More ... Nashville politician and professional comedian Adam Dread is trying to reverse a recently passed Tennessee law that allows guns in bars and is campaigning to make sure the law does not get passed in Massachusetts as well as in other states. More ... |
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