Massachusetts Environmental Police Director Aaron Gross said last week that he and the environmental police are here for the people of the state and Nantucket. Gross' comment was in response to recent rumors that Nantucket might be losing its environmental police offi cer, a statement he confirmed is not true. More...

The ocean has had a deep influence on the work of singer and songwriter Jess Clemons. Now she even makes it her home. She was born and raised in Vermont. After graduating from high school, Clemons spent the summer of 2002 on Nantucket with a classmate. More...

The island was brimming with visitors this past weekend and it may have been the first time in the 38- year history of the Figawi Race Weekend that islanders were unabashedly happy to see the 2,000 or more sailors crowd downtown. Every slip in the boat basin, the closest thing the island has to a campground, was filled. More...

The varsity softball team had four games left on the schedule at the beginning of last week, before heading off to the postseason. After blanking a hapless Chatham last Tuesday, 10-0, on the strength of senior Jessica Guevara's arm, who threw for 13-strikeouts without walking a batter, the team had to get through a doubleheader at home on Wednesday against Bishop Connolly. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Buzz Bissinger, will be the keynote speaker at the Nantucket High School graduation on Saturday, June 6, in the Mary P. Walker Auditorium. More...

In the early days of writing this column I nurtured the delusion that it would be only a sometime thing; that others would step up and do their own op-ed pieces. I would only have to come up with a topic once or maybe twice a month. It didn't happen. More...