Last week, Nancy A. Chase joined her two sisters, Susan Ottison and Phyllis Burchell, in their family conservation tradition by selling her property at 50 Tennessee Ave. in Madaket to the Nantucket Islands Land Bank. The Land Bank purchased Chase's . More...
The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries late Thursday morning closed the ocean waters three miles seaward of Great Point down to Tom Nevers to the taking of surf clams, ocean quahogs, sea scallops and carnivorous moon snails because of red tide. More...
After a three-year study by the Roads and Right of Way Committee, the town is getting serious about clearing and marking public ways to the water, many of which have become overgrown by bushes or covered up by sheds, hedges and lawns put in by abutters. More...
Date of birth: Feb. 8, 1978 Likes most about Nantucket: The community. "It's a great place to raise kids." Likes least about Nantucket: "Being away from family that lives on the mainland. Favorite TV show: "I don't watch too much TV. More...
Audrey Sterk is not ready to put down her paintbrush. Yet the island artist, muralist and wallpaper designer is moving ahead with a music career. Sterk is in the Providence, R.I. band I'm With Stupid, which will be opening for Spookie Daly Pride on June 24 and June 25 at The Chicken Box from 10 p... More...
Recognizing that not all roads, paths and trails are ways open to the public and that the sanctity of private property is precious on this finite pile of sand is crucial to the survival of the unique cultural island tradition of sharing one's shoreline, woodland paths and dirt roads with the walki... More...
T o my dear grandmother, 'Nana' Grace Turner, these were all 'wild canaries.' We had a perfectly wonderful 'tame' canary that sang his little heart out from his cage in the parlor so I was excited with the idea there could be wild ones on our island. Perhaps, it led me into a study of birds that h... More...
Additions North Road Nominee Trust, Tuckernuck Island Terry Sutherburg, 14 Allens Lane Garage Apartments David Fronzuto, 35 First Way Fences Elliot R. Norton, 1 Sparks Ave. Nantucket Aids Network, 65 Miacomet Ave. More...
Nearly a year after hiring Kitty Pochman as her executive director and E. Vernon Laux as property manager and resident naturalist, the Linda Loring Nature Foundation (LLVF) is now online at llnf.org. Throughout the summer, the LLNF is holding open houses to introduce its property to island reside... More...
Dukes Road offers Nantucket country living at its best. It is quiet and private, yet within walking distance of downtown. This dead end, town-maintained road creates a neighborhood unto itself. More...
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