PHOTO BY MICHAEL GALVIN The scene at the Boston Pops at Jetties Beach last Saturday. Over 8,500 people came to the seashore to hear the Pops perform its 13th annual benefit for Nantucket Cottage Hospital. For more photos, see page 12. More...
Several Fairgrounds Road residents attended Monday's Planning Board meeting to protest a second entrance to the new police station at 2 Fairgrounds Road. Irwin Holdgate built his house at 19 Fairgrounds Road in 1961. Holdgate said he is so distressed by the multiple impacts on the neighborhood that he has put his house on the market. More...
If anyone can direct the wind, it is Paul Callahan, the CEO of Shake-A-Leg, a nonprofit that makes it possible for disabled people to sail. At 49, Callahan of Newport, R.I. is one of the fastest men on the water. He is also a quadriplegic. More...
The Nantucket Historical Association will hold an Acquisitions Evening tonight in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street, 6-7 p.m. The evening is free for NHA members, $15 general public. More...
Gail Sharretts is a fine painter and perfectly capable of rendering masterly and distinguishable still lifes or landscapes, but that is not really where her heart is these days. "The abstract work is an evolution," she said, her shock of short blond hair highly contrasted against the muted shades of a scene in France hanging in her Surfside Road gallery. More...
Promoting literacy and a love of reading are essential components of the mission of the Nantucket Atheneum, now celebrating its 175th year serving residents and visitors of all ages. The means to accomplish these goals come in many ways. For years, the Atheneum has held free classes in English as a Second Language for the island's burgeoning foreign population. More...
If, as some are speculating, the real estate market is at or near its recent lows, what sort of "new beginnings" can we expect? Will 2009 finish on an upswing? Is it reasonable to expect an upswing any time soon? Perhaps the numbers for 2009 hold a clue. Let's take a look. More...
On Saturday aftern oon, I was packing the car with a stroller, chairs and tote bags to go to the Boston Pops. The mosquitoes were finding me and I wanted to get back in the house, but then I looked up and saw a couple of red tails perching in the dead pine trees. One of them screeched down at me, "Hey, we haven't talked in a while. More...
Shellfish Association seeks Nantucket bay scallop logo