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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the editor: Another summer season on Nantucket has drawn to a close and yet despite the best efforts of Bill Connell's "Clean Team," the frequency of trash accumulating on the bike paths and byways shows no sign of abating. Can it be that island visitors come with a separate compartment in the luggage for their trash and distribute it with reckless abandonment once they get here? For sure, it cannot be an example of the disdain that island residents hold for their own paradise which they must share for 90 days with cash-ready shoppers/diners who visit their shores. But wait, have not the town supervisors some complicity in this travesty? Where are the receptacles for those civic minded enough to not thoughtlessly empty their pockets, but rather "Pitch it Here." If you cannot stop the polluter, you can at least give him a pot to "pitch in." I suggest that a dozen or so barrels for the purpose, placed along the bike paths and at strategic intersections along the island roads would have a noticeable effect on controlling this local disease. A few notices of encouragement would help as well. Ever Litter Bit Hurts Pitch in: Keep Nantucket Clean I find it depressing that I fill a large garbage bag with others' carelessness from the same stretch of the Polpis Road almost every day. Suppose people like me stop. Then what! Marc Flaster To the Editor: On behalf of breastfeeding mothers and babies here on Nantucket, we would like to thank this year's World Walk for Breastfeeding volunteers, donators, and participants. The walk this year was held Aug. 1 at Easton Street Park and was coordinated to raise awareness of the importance of breastfeeding as well as to promote La Leche League, a local information and support group. We had a healthy show of support with kids aged birth through 11 included in our one mile walk as well as their parents, expectant parents, labor and delivery nurses, doulas and our local midwife. We concluded with a tasty potluck with food donated in part from Sfoglia's and a raffle with many generous items donated by Annye's, Bookworks, Cisco's, Force 5, G.S. Hill, Island Pharmacy, Parchment, Pinwheels, Rachel Dixon massage, Young's Bike Shop and Zero Main. These generous gifts along with many family's contributions helped us raise over $1,000. This money will help support La Leche League on a national and international level as well as here on Nantucket. Breastfeeding is the most natural act; however, it may not always be easy. We encourage new parents to seek out this wonderful local resource if breastfeeding is harder than you expect. Sunny Daily and Rachel Dixon To the Editor: Sherburne Commons was a dream. The premise of its original plan was a good one. The business plan was flawed, and many errors were made in the process of developing the campus upon which it now exists. There will be plenty of time for the examination of the errors; it will make an excellent business school case study. Time has now run out. The dream is nothing more than a dream gone bad. The Articles 10 through 16 on the agenda for the Special Town Meeting allow for the possible sale and continued operation. They do not provide a buyer, they do not commit town funds, they do not design a business plan. They allow for an environment for all possibilities. Please come to the Special Town Meeting on September 21 and support these articles. Elizabeth B. Braun To the Editor: Madaket residents are asking that all voters of Nantucket please consider carefully the five zoning articles (numbered 18-22 at this time) being presented at the Special Town Meeting and then vote in favor of them. These articles are the result of indepth
discussions between Madaket folks and Andrew Vorce and his staff at Nantucket Planning & Economic Development Commission once it became known that town water was going to be extended to Madaket in the near future. Their purpose is to attempt to protect Madaket's historic atmosphere of a quiet community of modest-sized homes as described in the Madaket Area Plan. These articles received the approval of the Planning Board at a recent meeting. (Similar discussions were held with our Health officials, and thanks to hard work by Richard Ray and his staff, new health regulations were passed at the last Board of Health meeting that provide continued from page 6 some protection against the potential outgrowth of building and potential danger to Madaket's waters.) The extension of town water to Madaket has some advantages (better water quality to isolated areas of poor drinking water and better fire protection), but the threat of potential building outgrowth to both the "way of life" in Madaket and to the possible further contamination of pond and harbor waters made it mandatory that the above health and zoning rules be instituted. All that is needed now is that the zoning articles be passed by 2/3 vote at the Sept. 21 Special Town Meeting. Madaket residents are grateful for the efforts of both the health and planning areas of our town government, and will overwhelmingly vote positively for these articles.
We ask that the rest of the town will also vote with us and help protect our basic and historic values. |
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