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NANTUCKET CIVIC LEAGUE SERVES MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN CAMP RICHARD LEGAL BATTLE NANTUCKETâ€â€In the latest development involving the legal battle for ownership of Boy Scout Camp Richard on Nantucket, the Nantucket Civic League has served a motion for summary judgment, asking the Court to rule in its favor without the need for a trial. Lead control and ownership of Camp Richard is being contested by the Hyannis-based Cape and Islands Boy Scout Council, which wants to sell a substantial portion of the 100-acre Camp Richard to a Boston real estate firm, Atl

Thanks for the salute. It feels like a Mr. Smith like battle. But we're going to win this. For the kids. They deserve it much more than Scoutmaster Mike!

part 2... According to the Council’s most recent IRS filing, it already has an endowment of more than $2.7 million. The island’s Boy Scout leaders suggested that the Council consider a sale to one of Nantucket’s conservation groups instead of a developer, and while it “explored other options,†the Council ultimately continued to negotiate with Atlantic Development. In its complaint, the Council asserted that it had reached an agreement with the Nantucket Land Bank for the sale of a conservation restriction on the property, but Land Bank execu

Here is the full text of the article from the local newspaper, not available online due to paywall: FROM THIS WEEK'S INQUIRER & MIRROR, BY REPORTER JASON GRAZIADEI http://www.ack.net/Councilsuesislandscoutleaders081513.htm Cape Cod council sues island Boy Scout leaders, locks them out of their camp Judge orders two sides to mediate while developer eyes property By Jason Graziadei I&M Staff Writer With a developer eyeing the 100-acre Boy Scout campground on Nantucket known as Camp Richard, a feud has erupted be¬tween the Yarmouth-based Cape Cod & I

The 100-ac property is divided into 10-ac plots. Not sure why. I think they have been like that since donated 50 yrs. ago. But each plot's deed is recorded with "Nantucket District, Boy Scouts" listed as the owner! The developer is interested in all 100 acres. By selling 30 ac, the council might be thinking that if scouting doesn't survive here on the island, then they would be able to sell the rest later, profit from it, and not hurt their own kids' experience (just ours).

From a local writer... LICKSPITTLE by Robert Barsanti The clustered hypocrisy of the Boy Scout Land and Bake Sale has become well known. The Cape Cod and Islands Council of the Boy Scouts of America decided to drop a sweetheart deal into the hands of a developer. They offered thirty acres of Nantucket land for a price not seen since the Ron Reagan was dropping jelly beans on the White House floor. The deal has the hallmarks of Doctor Evil and his finger sucking. At its grossest level, adults who tried to finagle this deal are neither “mentally awake†nor “morally str

Thanks! That idea is bouncing around town. Zoning changes like this have to be approved at Annual Town Meeting. But, if nothing else works, I'm pretty sure a warrant article to this end will be submitted to the meeting!

Ugh. We're starting to get a little press. If not support, maybe shame will work.

By the way, this is what the place looks like right now. It's quiet, still, and pitch black dark! I shudder to think what it will look like with a nearby strip mall!

Any advice on how to get the national scouting community to step up and put pressure on our council to do the right thing?

This is VERY fishy. Land across the street sold two weeks ago for $30 million, for 70 acres. And someone is trying to steal this land from our boys for $3.5 million for 30 acres. There hasn't been an acre to sell for that price on the island in 20 yrs! The whole thing stinks. This land was donated by the Nantucket Civic League, to the Nantucket troop, 40 yrs ago.l It was given with a deed restriction that said that if it were to ever be used for something other than scouting, ownership reverted by to the Civic League. Well, no one paid attention that such a restriction automatically expir