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Opinion November 18, 2009  RSS feed

Invest in tourism
EDITORIAL
      Tourism is Nantucket's lifeblood. While the island has tried for decades to develop other industries in an effort to create a year-round economy, tourism remains a constant. Tourism was given birth on Nantucket in the 1880s, when people would visit the island for the recuperative powers of the sea air.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
      To the Editor: The stories in both local papers about the Town's questioning of the state ocean-protection plan seem to have caused confusion about the status of Long-tailed Ducks. People concerned about birds have been asking me if these ducks are in trouble. They are not, but the people at state level who wrote the plan imply that they are.
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