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Off-season construction of the Nantucket Dreamland Foundation's theater building will restart next spring instead of this fall because of a redesign of the structure by new architects. More ... Nantucket police blotter for the week ending Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Information provided by the Nantucket Police Department. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Monday, Nov. 16 9:22 p.m. Jason A. Gulley, 32, of 82A Union St., was arrested at 115 Washington St. on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. More ... J. Brent Tartamella, manager of The Westmoor Club has been named New England Club Managers Association's Manager of the Year 2009. More ... It is yellowed and waterstained, but an unaddressed and unfinished love letter found beneath shingles on the historic Greater Light is believed to be only about 10 years old. More ... Amy Ruth Peterson of Nantucket died on Saturday, Nov. 14 at the age of 44 at Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Amy had been battling cancer for six months. Amy was born in Auburn, N.Y. on April 19, 1965. She grew up in Cato, N.Y. and graduated third in her class from Cato-Meridian High School in 1983. More ... For two years, Boston Globe columnist and photographer Derrick Z. Jackson was not far from Barack Obama's side during his unprecedented journey from announcing his candidacy to his swearing in as the nation's first African American president. More ... Some people have long-standing traditions on how they decorate their Christmas trees, but for those who would like inspiration from new ideas or simply enjoy the creativity of others', the 16th Annual Festival of Trees opens to the public in all its twinkling beauty on Friday, Dec. 4 at the Whaling Museum. More ... PHOTO BY CHARLES FIELDS B ased on the five-footby five-foot 1858 "Map of the Counties of Barnstable, Dukes andNantucket, Massachusetts," by cartographer Henry F. Walling, publisher Adam Gamble, an alumnus of Cape Cod Community College, published a coffee table book to help raise funds for the W.B. More ... P urchasing carpeting or quality area rugs is a major investment. Combining the island's rainy, muddy spring and June, the hot summer weeks when sandy feet were daily visitors in your house and the damp autumn leaves that stick to shoe bottoms, chances are your pile flooring is in sore need of a good cleaning. More ... As soon as Thanksgiving has passed, I am ready to start celebrating Christmas. One of my favorite holiday events is the annual lighting of the trees on Main Street, held the day after Thanksgiving at 5 p.m. I always see so many familiar faces at this event. It is such a simple low-tech event where people gather and sing by the glow of the illuminated Christmas trees. More ... Island historian and NHA Research Fellow Bob Mooney will discuss wartime Nantucket at a Pearl Harbor Day Gam on Monday, December 7, in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street, at 4 p.m. Free for NHA members and veterans; $5 Nantucket residents, $15 general public. More ... |
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