Posts belonging to Category Nantucket

REP. MADDEN CONGRATULATES THOSE IN HIS DISTRICT WHO MADE THE MASSACHUSETTS 1,000 GREAT PLACES LIST

Boston, MA – Representative Timothy R. Madden congratulates the following places in his district which made the list of 1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts:

Falmouth
 
Falmouth Museums on the Green      
Falmouth Shining Sea Bikeway          
Highfield Hall     
The Knob, Woods Hole   
Mass Audu bon Ashumet Holly Wildlife Sanctuary             
Nobska Point Lighthouse
Spohr Garden on Fells Road
Woods Hole Village                                                               

 

Gosnold
 
Cuttyhunk Island                   
Hadley’s Harbor                                                               
Tarpaulin Cove Light      

 

Martha’s [...]

NPEDC added to the Ocean Advisory Commission (OAC)

BOSTON: State Representative Timothy R. Madden is pleased to announce that the Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission (NPEDC) was added to the Ocean Advisory Commission by way of a budget amendment. The language adopted will amend the Oceans Act of 2008 that had previously omitted NPEDC. It will ensure that when the Plan is revisited [...]

DPU – National Grid/Cape Wind Hearing on Nantucket 6/21

DPU – CAPE WIND: The Department of Public Utilities holds a hearing in Nantucket on Cape Wind’s proposed power purchase agreement with National Grid…6:00pm…Nantucket High School, 10 Surfside Road
Comments with the subject line of “RE: Massachusetts Electric Company and Nantucket Electric Company d/b/a National Grid Agreement with Cape Wind Associates, LLC (D.P.U. 10-54)” can be [...]

Student Government Day 2010

 
BOSTON: State Representative Tim Madden would like to congratulate Carlisle Jenson for being elected delegate to represent Nantucket High School in the 63nd Annual Student Government Day at the State House in Boston on April 9th. She joined over 300 of her peers from around the state in participating in a unique hands-on educational opportunity.
Students [...]

CAPE AND ISLANDS TO BENIFT FROM $32 MILLON FEDERAL BROADBAND GRANT

BOSTON- Governor Deval Patrick and State Representative Timothy R. Madden today joined state and local leaders on Cape Cod to celebrate a $32 million federal award received by the regional non-profit OpenCape Corporation through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP).
This award will be combined with [...]

APPOINTED BOARD OF HEALTH LEGISLATION SIGNED INTO LAW

 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS –An Act Establishing an Appointed Board of Health for the Town of Nantucket sponsored by Representative Timothy Madden of Nantucket was signed into law this morning and is now Chapter 46 of Acts of 2010.
This legislation creates a five member Board of Health on Nantucket which will be separate from any other board [...]

Nantucket Suicide Prevention Coalition receives “Leadership in Suicide Prevention Award”

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

Nantucket Suicide Prevention Coalition receives “Leadership in Suicide Prevention Award”
BOSTON- Members of the Nantucket Suicide Prevention Coalition were in Boston Monday, February 8, 2010 to receive the “Leadership in Suicide Prevention Award” from the Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention (MCSP). This award recognizes the evolution of the Coalition on Nantucket which was organized [...]

Nantucket Public Schools awarded a grant through the Clean Energy Center Commonwealth Wind Program/Community Scale Initiative

Commonwealth Wind Incentive Program
Community-Scale Initiative
The goal of the Commonwealth Wind Incentive Program is to assist responsibly-sited wind energy projects of all scales in achieving successful and timely installations, while also supporting Governor Patrick’s goal of having 2,000 megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity installed in the Commonwealth by 2020.  The Community-Scale Initiative awards feasibility [...]