From Mahon About Town Today:

Looks like another fun, light and uplifting night of theatre!

Opening Night Party at Corazon del Mar Apres show May 11, 9:30pm

Join the cast of Noises Off for a glass of bubbly and some light hors d'oeuvres after the opening of Noises Off

$50 for show & party

$25 for show only

Noises Off runs from May 11 - June 2 Thursday - Saturday 7:30 & Sundays 3:00* Bennett Hall Tickets $25

Tom Rafter. Photo: from the I&M Site

http://www.ack.net/airportmanager041612.html

Being the new airport manager is kind of like being the president after George W. Bush. You just end up cleaning up someone else's mess for four years. 

Good luck Mr. Rafter, if you end up taking the job. 

This just in from a Facebook friend who is hoping to raise money for his brother's brain cancer fight. Jules is an incrdible athlete and an amazing teacher, who taught both of my kids in martial arts. Please consider attending!

I'll let you know. The clerks are counting.

Today, I'm supporting and endorsing Tobias Glidden for selectman. Above all other candidates, he appears to be poised to do more for the well being of this island. He's a serious, bright, caring, thoughtful young man whose only motivation is to ensure that the island works for coming generations. 

Tobias cares deeply about water quality, a pedestrian-friendly downtown, renewable energy, building a new island econmy to replace the old, outdated one we curently cling to, and (my personal litmus test for candidates) preventing a parking garage from coming into being. 

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Get your caffeine at the Green on the way to town meeting, YIMBYs!

And visit voteyimby.com to pledge to be there!

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Grand Inquisitor, Mary Wawro, who apparenly keeps a stack of open meeting law complaint forms in her top desk drawer, after having also filed recent complaints against Selectmen Willauer and Kopko, is at it again. 

This time she is bludeoning the Energy Study Committee with the Law, saying that the formation of a closed facebook group constitutes an open meeting law violation. You can read the complaint, attached below as a PDF. It helps to read it with a nasally, whiney, na-na-na-na-na-na tone in mind. Makes more sense that way. 

Every time I would run into Bradford Garrison on Nantucket, I would get a big hug from him. And I'm really going to miss that.

Attached below is the complete and final risk assessment of the Madaket turbine program. It has been vetted by the wind subcommittee and people on both sides of the issue have contributed to the creation of this document and the committee's findings. Please give it a careful read. 

The fine points:

It spells out the amount of power a turbine could prodce at the site based on over a year of wind data. 

It spells out debt service consideration

It spells out the reserve fund considerations

It dispells any worries about net metering

And the bottom line is this, according to the consultant George Aronson. All of the scenarios, even the extreme worst case scenarios, show that the project would return a positive cash flow to the town. 

Recently I have witnessed several incidents where BOS chair Rick Atherton has squashed debate or has discouraged the full expression of the facts on an issue that he disagrees with. The proposed turbine at the Madaket Landfill. In particular, the BOS has disallowed the ability of the Energy Study Committee to have access to town counsel at important meetings, like the ZBA hearing where town counsel could have truly helped the situation. And in public meetings, he has been openly dismissive of the chair of the committee, Anne Kuszpa, while allowing people from the so-called Common Sense Nantucket group to speak freely.

Grant and Whitey Willauer talk about town government, the ATM warrant, telecommuting and White Heron Theatre Company. 

ConCom denies SBPF's erosion plan for Sconset bluff 

'nuff said.