Topic: Family & Kids

On Tuesday the Nantucket Golf Club announced the recipients of their 2008 scholarships. Tomas Smaliorius, who plans to attend Bucknell University and Anita Elahi who plans to attend George Washington University each received full 4-year scholarships to a college of their choice.

The Nantucket Scholar 2008 finalists included: Brian Chitester, Molly MacKay, Julia Wendelken, Miranda Dale, Tomas Smaliorius, Nellie Morley, Jasper Young, Anita Elahi, Russell Bartlett, Martina Ivanova, and Lena Civitarese.

The Annual Daffodil Festival Weekend will take place April 25-27 and is a celebration of spring on Nantucket. The end of the long, grey winters on the island comes when the daffodils begin to poke their heads out of the soil and the days start feeling a little longer, all a welcomed sign of the warmer months to come.

This week the Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention held a town hall meeting to discuss a strategic plan to curb substance abuse among Nantucket’s youth.

Magician Scott Jameson showed off with some magic tricks for Nantucketers in a packed auditorium on April 11. After doing two performances with an education twist for the schools earlier that day, Jameson gave a third show in the evening for the kids and their families for free. This is the 2nd year the Nantucket Atheneum has brought Jameson to the students and their families, and was yet again another success.

Autism is a disease that affects more than 1 in 150 children, with 67 new cases being diagnosed every day. That’s one every 20 minutes. With no medical detection or cure for autism, with this debilitating disease, there are certainly more questions than answers.