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Students returning to Nantucket Elementary School this September could be returning to a shorter week, with early release at noon on Wednesdays. The Nantucket Teachers' Association voted 80 to 15 last Friday to support a plan that would give NES a four and a-half day school week in exchange for eliminating half days throughout the year. More ... Nantucket police blotter for the week ending Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Information provided by the Nantucket Police Department. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Wednesday, July 15 5:45 p.m. More ... The life of a 14-month-old baby was saved on Friday because retired police sergeant David Aguiar happened to be listening to his scanner. Aguiar, who is now a reserve officer with the local police department, was off duty and driving on Cliff Road on Friday, July 17 at approximately 2:45 p.m. More ... Mourning cloak, Eastern pine elfin, American copper, brown elfin, cabbage white and American lady. All of these names identify butterflies found on Nantucket, butterflies that today Vernon Laux, resident naturalist and property manager for the Linda Loring Nature Foundation, More ... If you enjoy the scent of fine perfume but balk at the high prices, especially since the scent seems to evaporate quickly, step inside The Fragrance Bar for an entertaining and informative experience. Owner John Harding is a chemist of sorts who has the recipes for nearly every major name perfume ever made. More ... Paul G. Crommelin, Jr., 86, of Willow Street, Pa. and a longtime summer resident of Nantucket died last week at the Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, Pa. Born in Orange, N.J., he was the son of the late Paul G., Sr. and Florence Austin Crommelin. Paul was the husband of Mary Ann Cassady Crommelin. The Crommelins celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary last August. More ... Charlotte Winslow Nabors was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on July 15, 2009 weighing 8 pounds and 6 ounces. She is the daughter of Emily and Jon Nabors and sister of Mya and Brooks of Nantucket. Her grandparents are Richard and Susan Brooks of Nantucket and Henry and Nancy Nabors of Birmingham, Mich. Her great-grandparents are Opal Tice of Corpus Christy, Tx. More ... James Peter Dutra celebrates his first birthday on July 23. He is the son of Jesse and Hadley Dutra of Nantucket, MA. His grandparents are Charlie and Susan St. John of Richmond, MA and Nantucket, MA and Frank Dutra of Nantucket, MA and Susan Dutra of Westport, MA. His greatgrandparents are Michael St. John of Essex Fells, NJ and Arthur LaBaire of Cherry Valley, MA. More ... Sonya Kojevinko, daughter of Lena Kojevnikov, of Nantucket graduated recently from Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pa. More ... Although it was cloudy and overcast last Friday, Isabella Gemma was happily occupied at the Whaling Museum's summer Hands-on-History "Be a Collector" art activities sponsored by the Nantucket Historical Association. That day, Gemma was embellishing a tea cup with Chinese designs that she had seen in the museum's collection. More ... Fans of the well-meaning but often bungling and always lovelorn Charlie Brown are sure to enjoy the upcoming Dreamland Foundation's play, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," with a slew of islanders portraying cartoonist Charles Schultz's characters from the critical, calculating Lucy to blanket-addicted Linus, to the lovable dog Snoopy and his feathered pal Woodstock. More ... The exquisite talent of some of the country's premier ballet professionals will grace the high school stage with their elegance on July 24 and 25 when a superstar company comes to Nantucket to perform classical dances of Balanchine, Petipa and Forsythe and original presentations by Benjamin Millepied. More ... |
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