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NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) -- Two people escaped serious injury after their small plane made a parachute landing on Nantucket. FAA spokeswoman Holly Baker said the 830 Cirrus aircraft apparently was trying to land at Nantucket on visual flight rules when the weather went bad Friday night. According to the National Weather Service, there was some light rain and fog with a light southwest breeze at the time of the crash. She said the pilot used the plane's safety parachute to make a hard landing in Sconset about five miles east of the Nantucket airport. She said the pilot, flying with his wife, was taken to a hospital, but no serious injuries were reported. Baker said the plane is registered to Jackson Thomas of 6 Prospect Street on Nantucket. The FAA is investigating.7 More...

Nantucket's county commissioners are not the first to ponder whether Leroy Viera truly owns his land at 112 Pleasant St., the site of the former Pleasant Street post office. More...

SHEEP CURTAILING INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES

There is a delectable combination of island vegetation on the menu for the 29 Romney and Cotswold sheep that are spending the summer at Squam Farm. More...

Community mourns loss of actor, devoted family man Jim Nettles
Jim Nettles, a gentle, soft-spoken man with an immense talent who brought years of powerful and memorable performances to the stage of the Theatre Workshop, died at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Wednesday night, Aug. 8, 2007 after a brief illness. Mr. More...
The Artists' Association of Nantucket announced last week that it has hired Bruce Buxton, recent Interim Director of the Klingenstein Center at Columbia University, to be its new Executive Director, beginning October 1. More...
SEND YOUR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: DON@NANTUCKETINDEPENDENT.COM
PAVING ISLAND NOT THE ANSWER To the editor: I read with interest Grant Sanders' recent column on the unfortunate mindset of the Planning Board to require developers to pave roads as a condition of seeking development approval, with seemingly little consideration given as to whether the road should be paved at all. More...
Results from day one of Nantucket Race Week, a day of various one-design races held Saturday, August 11. Only one race was sailed: Rainbows: Tobey Smiles, first place; Stephen Mead, second; Whitney Dow, third. More...
Art gallery out by mid-October
Mark Goldweitz has big plans for 12 Orange St. - plans that do not include 12 Orange Fine Art, the gallery currently housed there. Having recently purchased the property for $2.6 million (it is assessed at $1,939,100) Goldweitz is planning a historic restoration of the house that was built in 1788. More...
87 Baxter Road
Where is your house in relation to the bluff? "We are at the "dead center" of the current erosion." How long have you been a member of SBPF? "Three years." Why did you join? "We [Ann and I] saw it as a logical effort of well-meaning Nantucketers to do both self-interest and an island impacting project. More...
Country Village Real Estate
Twenty-three Commercial Wharf is a magical place. There is truly something to be said about waking up in the morning with the sun just peaking over the horizon and the smell of salt air wafting across your bed, and with the soothing sounds of a breeze whistling through the rigging of a nearby ketch. Here, your alarm clock is the ferry whistle. More...
Aug. 6, 2007 - Aug. 10, 2007
1. A house on .39 of an acre at 14 Lincoln Ave. sold to Kim Mary Wentworth, Trustee, 2006 KMG Trust of Morristown, N.J. from Mary Whitt Fishel, Trustee, Lincoln Avenue Nominee Trust, of Lexington, Ky. for $8,000,000. The property is assessed at $5,081,800. The land bank fee is $160,000. More...