Children and adults were asked Monday night by a police officer to stop fishing for squid at the end of the town pier. Boaters moored at the town pier object to the squid's ink that splatters onto their boats. For complete story, please see page 26. PHOTOS BY PETER SUTTERS JR. More...
Age: 59 Likes most about Nantucket: The boating and fishing, the different seasons, looking forward to the months when it isn't so busy. Likes least about Nantucket: The traffic downtown. Favorite TV show: "Chronicle" on Ch. 5 and "Do You Want to be a Millionaire? More...
L andscape artist Wolf Kahn is still painting. Kahn is one of the last living members of the "Hoffman Mafia," which included artists Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Red Grooms and others who had studied under the German abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman, who had arts schools in New York and in Provincetown, Mass. More...
Nantucket's year-round community has come together, through the Nantucket Public Schools, to address the issue of underage drinking, with town hall forums this past year sponsored by the Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention. More...
Things in the world today are complicated. There's just no getting around the fact that life today is not quite as simple as it once was. My fashion sense, for example. If anything, Lilly Pulitzer pants make things more complicated than they really have to be. But beyond my fashion shortcomings, there's an abundance of complications in our everyday world. More...
State Historic Preservation Officer Brona Simon of the Massachusetts Historical Commission ruled on July 2 in a letter to Ian A. Bowles, Secretary of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs that whenever the town gets enough money to build four multisport playing fields at 81 Milestone Road, that construction of the fields will not disturb any archeological remains. More...
Developer reduces lot number