No purchase price has been disclosed, but the official closing on the sale of Marine Home Center to the Brighton-based Intercontinental Developers, Inc. is anticipated to occur on or about July 18. Intercontinental's Chairman and CEO Peter Palandjian confirmed late last week that a definitive agreement for the purchase was signed June 30. More...

Just push the green button and take a virtual ride back in history aboard an amazingly detailed replica of The Nantucket Railroad. More...

The school administration moved quickly to fill the principal vacancy at the high school created when George Kelly announced this April that he would be stepping down to take the newly created position of director of student services. This week John Buckey, principal of Littleton High School since 2005, was offered the top administrative job at the island's high school. More...

This year's Charity on Ice is going to be caked in gold. In addition to Nantucket native A.J. Mleczko, who was a member of the U.S. women's gold medal winning Olympic hockey team in 1998 and three of her teammates, also in attendance will be Dorothy Hamill, who took home two gold medals in the 1976 Olympics, which took place in Innsbruck, Austria. More...

There were two hawks sitting in the tall dead trees across the road. They were silhouetted against the leaden gray sky of Saturday morning. The When I went toward them, one of them flew down to a low branch nearby and said, "Happy Fourth! More...

Large pieces of vacant land with water views are becoming scarcer and scarcer on Nantucket. So are properties which offer multiple choices for locating a house. So are properties which abut Conservation Foundation land on two sides. So are properties with 1,000 feet of waterfront on one of the island's most beautiful tributaries. More...

1.A house under construction on 1.06 acres and a portion of .93 of an acre at 21 Shimmo Pond Road and 23 Shimmo Pond Road, respectively, sold to Christopher B. Madison and Elizabeth F. Madison of Boston, Mass. from Shimmo Pond Holdings, LLC, of Chester, Pa. for $8,800,000. The properties are assessed at $5,468,200 and $3,073,300, respectively. More...