Posts belonging to Category Nantucket

Falmouth, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket students participate in Student Government Day

BOSTON – State Representative Timothy R. Madden (Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket) would like to congratulate the students in his district that represented their High Schools in this years, the 65th Annual Student Government Day at the State House in Boston earlie this month. Participants included Thomas Moakley and Vincent Lin of Falmouth High School, Meghan McHugh and Kevin Burchill of [...]

2012 Jane Doe Inc.’s Legislative Advocacy Day

On Beacon Hill for the 2012 Jane Doe Inc.’s Legislative Advocacy Day are (from left to right): Kat Robinson Grieder (Executive Director, A Safe Place), Michaela Yelle, Ashley Culkins, Alessandra Popova, Jennifer Frazee (Director of Program Services, A Safe Place), and Marco Bartkouiak.

House Passes Job Protection Legislation for Volunteer Firefighters

BOSTON – State Representative Tim Madden joined his colleagues in the Massachusetts House of Representatives last week in passing legislation which would add a level of job protection for call and volunteer firefighters to the current statute which protects them from being dismissed from their primary job if they arrive late for work because they [...]

Congressman Keating on Nantucket for Town Hall April 13th

Keating and Madden Flyer with background Congressman Keating Town Hall event this Friday, April 13, 4:30, in the Great Hall of the Atheneum.

Governor’s Office of Community Affairs is actively accepting applications for membership in the Governor’s Statewide Youth Council

Founded in 2008, the goal of the Council is to encourage the Commonwealth’s young people to take on an active leadership role in their communities and give them a greater voice in state government. The Youth Council acts an advisory body to the Governor and our Administration with a focus on youth-related issues such as [...]

Environmental-study scholarships available

Environmental-study scholarships available  The Friends of Chatham Waterways is offering scholar­ships of $2,500 to undergradu­ate and graduate students majoring in environmental fields.  Applicants must be resi­dents of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket, or graduates of a high school or college on the Cape or Islands.  Undergraduate applicants must be in or entering their junior [...]

FREE RESIDENTIAL ENERGY AUDITS ON NANTUCKET

As part of the Mass Save Initiative (www.masssave.com), several Energy Specialists will be on Nantucket from Monday 1/16/2012 thru Friday 1/20/2012 to perform 30-40 FREE residential energy audits. This is a service offered to Nantucket by National Grid and the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) to promote energy efficiency programs and to help residents [...]