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Something new
I have been talking to a handful of people about a new way to get a positive, informed discussion about the island’s future going. It will not be the new YACKon.com but something even cooler. If you want to stay in the loop, send me an email at grant@sand.agency and I will let you know…
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Why I will vote “yes” for a new school on Article 12. But I won’t like it.
The overcrowding in Nantucket Public Schools is not a problem. It’s a symptom. A symptom of our desire, as a community, to build and make money. Greed, basically. That’s right, I said it. The schools are a symptom of our greed. And we saw it coming. Let me explain. 20 years ago, it was no…
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Nantucket Music Festival Line-Up Announced
The Nantucket Music Festival (August 2-3), has booked some pretty good acts that you may actually want to go hear play. The line-up includes Grammy Winner Bruce Hornsby, alt-rock darlings Guster, roots reggae fave Steel Pulse, party band frontman Donovan Frankenreiter and a few others of note — Lucas Nelson & POTR, Ayla Brown, Ben…
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Nantucket Town Meeting Snarky Recap.
Ah, it’s Spring on Nantucket (or a reasonable facsimile) and that means Town Meeting has come and gone. Here’s a re-cap of the action on Saturday, April 5 at the Mary Walker Pendelton Auditorium. There was a short discussion on Article 10 concerning the purchase of new trash cans. Some of which were those newfangled…
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School vacation starts. But will the boats go?
I’m wondering aloud if the last boat of the day will arrive and then leave. Normally the Hy-Line is pretty good about getting vacationers off the island. But with 40 MPH gusts, what are the odds? This could be interesting.
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