Nantucket News

Joe Hoffman of Hyannis will sign copies of Figawi Race: Hyannis to Nantucket , from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the Captain's Table restaurant at the Hyannis Yacht Club, 490 Ocean St.

Well done. Nantucket High School culinary-arts students Casstassia Carter and Sean Fitzgibbon cooked the steak of their lives Sunday, and came out on top in the Nantucket Wine Festival's inaugural Junior Top Chef competition.

As the busiest arts season gets started, the Cape Cod Theater Coalition has added five new theaters to its member list, bringing the total to 22.

I&M Staff Writer The Nantucket Film Festival is about to become even more exciting for the dozen students who signed up for its Teen View filmmaking program this year.

"It was a great weekend," Pitcock said."We were very busy all weekend long, and were seeing people in town from Wednesday through Sunday.

Jennifer Frazee, A Safe Place's director of program services, said that this year Man Up, A Safe Place's men's group, will be the force behind the display.

The Inquirer and Mirror The Inquirer and Mirror today released the second installment of its new calendar publication, "This Week on Nantucket." The tabloid-size supplement, which debuted Daffodil Weekend, is a comprehensive pull-out calendar section chock-full of compelling editorial content, and is inserted in the I&M with additional copies ... (more)

The asphalt parking lot of the Kmart Plaza in Hyannis may not seem to lend itself to the somber reflection that marks Memorial Day.

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.