Nantucket News

May 21, 2013 - NANTUCKET, Mass. -- Nantucket Island, MA The Egan Maritime Institute announces "Red, Right, Returning": Present Day USCG Lifesaving Procedures and Boat Safety, at the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum from May 23 - October 14, 2013.

Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce will present "SBA Resources for Small Business" from 3:15 to 5:15 p.m. Tuesday at the chamber, Zero Main St.

Constraints in the system that delivers natural gas and an increasing reliance on it to generate electricity mean that, without drastic changes in the region's energy portfolio, New England remains vulnerable to volatile pricing and reliability issues, speakers said at an energy summit Monday.

I&M Staff Writer In selecting the culinary luminaries for this year's Nantucket Wine Festival, president Mark Goldweitz and executive director Nancy Bean hand-picked the crme de le crme of New England's chefs and complemented them with what Bean described as "rock stars" the younger generation of chefs who are currently shaking up the food scene.

The Nantucket Regional Transit Authority will kick off its 19th season of The Wave shuttle-bus service Monday, May 20 and operate through Columbus Day, Oct.

This young killdeer, one of two surviving chicks from a nest in a Nantucket beach parking lot, is less than 2 weeks old and will not be able to fly until it has grown its flight feathers, which will take about another 20 days.

At the height of a psychotic episode in which she became convinced her daughter was possessed by the devil, Dora Tejada suffocated and killed 3-year-old Nicole Garcia inside their home on Nantucket in 2011, testimony in Nantucket Superior Court revealed this week.

A Nantucket Superior Court jury found a former island man guilty of attempted rape and indecent assault and battery more than a decade after he was first arrested for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman.

Courtesy of Donald Tucker The Coral in New Bedford Harbor is loaded with 200 barrels of gasoline during the 1920s.

Dora Tejada, a house-cleaner from El Salvador accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter on Nantucket in 2011, was found not guilty of second-degree murder in Nantucket Superior Court Wednesday when a judge determined she was not criminally responsible for the girl's death due to mental illness.

WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Three months after WMVY's local music programming left the broadcast airwaves, Cape and Islands NPRA® Station WCAI will bring back the beloved MVY Music Hour, the monthly local music program hosted by Barbara Dacey, a familiar radio voice on Martha's Vineyard since 1985.

The 17th annual Nantucket Wine Festival opens tomorrow under new oversight for the first time in its history, in new venues and with an expanded program that includes a culinary marketplace and student-chef competition.

The red markings in the channel leading into Hyannis Harbor indicate areas where shoaling prevents the Steamship Authority's car ferries from entering during extreme low tides.

The downtown grocery space occupied by the Grand Union closed last November, and after some fits and starts, Stop and Shop agreed to take it over.

Astonishing news from Walvis Bay, Namibia, where scientists from the Namibian Dolphin Project on Tuesday confirmed the sighting of a grey whale .

It took longer than expected, but Jimmy Voyiatzis and his so John opened up the Hillside Grill about a month ago, and it's "been better than expected." The Hillside Grill , which sits in a building complex at 73-79 Main Street, is owned by Voyiatzis, and presently shares the lot with Boost Fitness, which moved in last year.

On April 14, SouthCoastToday printed a piece written by Miles Grant, identified by the National Wildlife Fund as a senior communications director living in New Bedford .

Active-duty military personnel and their families will receive free admission to the Nantucket Historical Association's Whaling Museum and historic sites from Memorial Day to Labor Day as part of the Blue Star Museums initiative.

A forensic psychologist indicated that Dora Tejada is not criminally responsible for the suffocation and death of her 3-year-old daughter on Nantucket in 2011 as her trial on a single charge of second-degree murder got underway Monday in Nantucket Superior Court.

Three airports on Cape Cod and Nantucket have received a total of $1.8 million in federal funding for safety improvement projects and planning.