Nantucket lobsterman Dann Pronk being investigated by the National Marine Fisheries Service for the alleged sale of a skull of a one-year-old humpback whale he brought up in his lobster gear the fall of 2006. More...
It is not often that a new church is built on the island, so even the early sketches of New Life Ministries International's proposed church are worth noting. Planned for a 2.7-acre lot the church owns at 42 Monohansett Road, Minister Donovan Kerr said the building should be around 4,000 square feet in size, one-and-a-half stories high and under 30 feet tall. More...
'Sconset Trust president Bob Felch leans over the top rail of Sankaty Head Light to adorn it with a Christmas wreath earlier this week. The trust is the new caretaker of the light that was moved 405 feet inland in October. Sankaty has been an active aid to navigation since 1850. More...
Once quite the traveler, Laura Simon is now very happily grounded at her remote Wauwinet homestead, pretty much living a selfsufficient existence - her extraordinary garden yields vegetables yearround for her and spouse Jim Gross; they have chickens for eggs; bees for honey and plenty of fallen trees from the woods surrounding the property to keep the stove well stoked More...
When Judith Brust was at Penn State majoring in education, she did not see her future as being an artist following in the footsteps of Hercules Seghers, William Blake and Paul Klee, but more likely involved in the creation of refrigerator masterpieces and beginning figure drawing. She graduated and was accredited to teach art to grades kindergarten through 12. More...
The young Whalers of Cyrus Peirce came out firing against Mattacheese last Thursday afternoon, with the first Nantucket points of the day coming on an Andrew Benson 3-pointer, but the more experienced visitors rode a steady effort and swarming defense to a 45-16 victory. More...
TRUE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT To the editor: Now that the Festival of Trees is all packed away for another year, I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the McMorrow family, Rick, Ursula and Ethan, for their amazing generosity. More...
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