After being closed for a year and having a potential purchase of his West End restaurant fall through, owner Ande Grennan is hopeful he will be able to open for another season by the beginning of July. Grennan goes before the selectmen tonight asking for a new seasonal liquor license and victualler license. More...

Island artists Joan Albaugh, Kasia Baker, Joanna Kane, John Lochtefeld, Edwin Rudd, Christine Sanford, Sherre Wilson-Rae, and Jeanne Van Etten have each painted a chair for a raffle to benefit the Nantucket Lighthouse School. More...

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The Nantucket High School softball squad qualified for Division 3 South Sectionals by defeating Sacred Heart, 11-3, on Friday. Olivia Hull pitched a no-hitter in the 11-3 win. Hull pitched all seven innings. She struck out 12 and allowed three unearned runs. Jess Guevara was 2-for-3 for the Whalers with a double, two RBIs and three runs scored. Kelly Reid and Cassie Moran each went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. On Saturday, the Whalers defeated Nauset at home, 8-5. At right, Lindsey Fry takes the throw just before tagging out a Nauset runner at second base. MICHAEL GALVIN/The Independent More...

NEW DWELLINGS Cynthia Gordon, 99 Miacomet Ave. Edwin Lemberg, 9 Waydale Lane GARAGES William Beattie, 5 Mothball Lane Jeffrey Heller, 7 East Lincoln Ave. More...

Although red tide algae is creeping down the northeast coast to as far south as Cape Cod, Town Biologist Keith Conant said he does not expect it to reach Nantucket. "We haven't heard from the DMF (state Division of Marine Fisheries), said Conant. "Unless we had a bunch of nor'easters in a row, I would find it extraordinarily difficult for it to get down here. More...

Waking up in the master bedroom of the estate at 37 Squam Road, you have before you the vast expanse of ocean, the dunes in the foreground and nothing but the skies above. In Squam, you get the mornings over the Atlantic Ocean. As any sailor knows, you can plan your day from the morning sky. Let someone else have the sunsets. More...

5. A vacant lot on 29.7 acres at 74 Milestone Road sold to the Nantucket Islands Land Bank of Nantucket, Mass. from Kathryn S. Williams, Christopher Williams and Elizabeth Sullivan of Epping, N.H. for $115,000. The property is assessed at $137,000. The land bank exemption is A. More...