Orcas and Nantucket Islands are each roughly the same size and the same distance off their respective coasts. We share the same concerns about the high cost of living, lack of affordable housing, tourist management, ferry problems and environmental degradation. We are living on opposite ends of the country but many of the issues and opportunities are the same. Recently theOrcasonian and the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror decided to share articles of mutual interest with our readers.

||| FROM NANTUCKET INQUIRER & MIRROR |||

Several Steamship Authority slow-boat trips were cancelled Saturday due to crew shortages. Employees called out from work on several vessels, communications director for the boat line Sean Driscoll said, so the boats couldn’t run.

The number of trips cancelled on all routes totaled 7 as of noon on Saturday.

The Authority was able to secure crews for the M/V Woods Hole and M/V Eagle later in the day to ensure the 5:30 and 8 p.m. trips between Hyannis and Nantucket could run, Driscoll said. The noon and 2:45 p.m. trips on the same route, however, had to be cancelled.

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