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Chris Perry Column: "We Seem To Be Having Technical Issues"
Let’s get one thing out of the way which my family and friends already know: I am technologically challenged. Frankly, that’s an understatement because it is well-documented. So when my wife asked me for help recently with the digital coupon option while standing in the produce section of...
Tom Nevers Pond Drainage Outlet – Nantucket MA
Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal. Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted drainage work at Tom Nevers Pond in Nantucket, constructing an outlet channel. The channel is not publicly accessible by land. Location Info. Tom Nevers Pond. Nantucket, MA. Coordinates: 41.24541, -69.98693.
Dr. Mustafa’s 'The Blaxploitation Horror Film' Longlisted for the Stone Book Award
The Blaxploitation Horror Film: Adaptation, Appropriation and the Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2023), by Dr. Jamil Mustafa, professor of English Studies, has been longlisted for the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award. The award is designed to recognize and encourage new literary work in the field...
Photo Gallery: 2024 Conservation Foundation's Race For Open Space
The Nantucket Conservation Foundation's 23rd Annual Race For Open Space 5K, 10K, and two mile walk took place on Saturday morning off Milestone Road at the cranberry bogs. The race recorded a record 686 registered runners and walkers. Nicholas Cellini, 15, of Pomfret, Vermont had the fastest 5K time amongst...
Photo Gallery: 1st Annual Culkins Cup
The 1st annual Culkins Cup took place over the weekend at the Nantucket Ice Rink to honor the life and memory of Ernie Culkins, the beloved longtime island resident who tragically passed away in April. Following the championship game on Saturday, there was a tailgate with a food truck, bar,...
Landmark House (formerly Our Island Home) Repairs – Nantucket MA
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted repair work at Our Island Home in Nantucket, now known as Landmark House. The facility, which is set back from the north/east side of Orange Street, is still in use, serving as low-income senior housing. Location Info.
Post Office – Nantucket MA
Treasury Department, Federal & Military Operations. The historic New Deal post office in Nantucket, Massachusetts was constructed with Treasury Department funds. The building, which bears a 1935 cornerstone and opened in 1936, is still in service. This classic post office is lined by gorgeous brick sidewalks and cobblestone streets. The...
Facing Nantucket's Drinking Problem
To the editor: This is a letter I did not want to write, and I imagine that there are some on the island, maybe many, who feel that I write too much. But I do have an unusual perspective as someone who has been on the island since 1970, mostly visiting my family, and then full-time when my mother had her stroke. Those who know me know that I care deeply about the island and about its community. For me, alcoholism. or alcohol use disorder, as it is now referred to, is not a moral issue; rather, as someone trained in public health, I consider it both a behavioral health issue and a medical issue.
New Short-Term Rental Compromise Heads To Voters In September, Again Under Protest
The Select Board voted unanimously last week to approve the warrant for a September Special Town Meeting. It includes a consensus short-term rental (STR) article drafted by the sponsors of a trio of citizen warrant articles. “I support putting this article on the warrant,” Select Board Vice Chair Tom Dixon,...
AAN's Sidewalk Art Show Saturday
(June 30, 2024) The Artists Association of Nantucket will hold a sidewalk art show from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday in the Nantucket Atheneum garden on India Street. This is the first show of three this year. More than 20 AAN artist members will display their work, and the outdoor art show is free and open to the public.
Flora Fraser talk July 12 at Atheneum
(June 30, 2024) Award-winning historical biographer and former Sconset resident Flora Fraser will speak on her latest book "Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora MacDonald" at the Nantucket Atheneum Friday, July 12 at 6:30 p.m. "Pretty Young Rebel" is a biography of Fraser’s namesake, a young Scotswoman whose bold...
Veranda House guest joins neighbors in suit against hotel
(June 30, 2024) A guest staying at the Veranda House on the morning of the 2022 fire that destroyed the hotel has filed suit against its owners, for over $10,000 in loss of property and an undetermined amount in emotional suffering. John Buck Jr., of Maryland, said he fled the...
Nantucket Project returns Sept. 26-29 with “Healing” theme
(July 2, 2024) When Nantucket Project co-founder Tom Scott and his team landed on a “healing” theme for this year’s Project in January, he had no idea just how deeply personal it would become. In February, Scott traveled to the Middle East to shoot a film on...
ConCom adopts stricter wetlands regs
(July 3, 2024) It has been a long time coming, but after more than two years of debate, the Conservation Commission passed a major update to its wetlands protection regulations last Thursday by a vote of 6-1. The discussion of new regulations has been a microcosm of the larger debate...
Democracy
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. E.B. White wrote those words in 1943. He wrote all the bold-faced words in this editorial. World War II was raging. He was at his home in Brooklin, Maine when something called the Writers’ War Board decided Americans might need to be reminded of the definition of democracy and called him.
IOD action gets underway
(July 3, 2024) Nantucket’s fleet of International One Design sloops started its season Sunday in a wet and windy but briefly navigable weather window that allowed two races between thunderstorm cells. Race officer Toby Hudson-Fowler clocked gusts of at least 27 knots (31 mph), flying the “no spinnakers” signal,...
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