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Inside presidential politics with Susan Glasser and Peter Baker

By John Stanton jstanton@inkym.com

Susan Glasser and Peter Baker are on the phone talking about what they have seen as observers of what so far has been the strangest of presidential campaigns.

She is the Washington, D.C. columnist for The New Yorker magazine. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, and has covered presidential politics and administrations from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden.

“Today we are having this conversation, and it’s exactly a month since the debate that would prove to be the undoing of Biden’s presidency. I think it will be a month that books will be

New program aims to reduce opioid-related deaths

By Anna Popnikolova apopnikolova@inkym.com

There were four opioid-related deaths on Nantucket last year, in-

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“The chances of rehabilitating someone who’s dead are very small. If they’re occupying a plot in Prospect Hill Cemetery, we can’t help.”

– Dr. Tim Lepore Addiction Solutions

creasing the number of fatal island overdoses across a decade to 21. The opioid antagonist naloxone, more commonly known by its brand name Narcan, is being made increasingly available to the public, as a tool in efforts to bring those numbers down.

“Narcan saves their life. Every day the sun comes up even if someone is

an addict. There’s no reason for them to die,” Tim Lepore, MD, said. Lepore is the founder of Addiction Solutions of Nantucket, which offers addiction recovery treatment and support.

“I want to give people a chance, and continue giving them a chance to get past their addiction,” he said.

Rosemary McLaughlin’s goal is to bring down the number of island overdoses to zero. She said that making Narcan more accessible is an important step in reaching that goal. She is the executive director of Community Solutions for Behavioral Health, an organization focused on addressing

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Good Neighbor Agreement never intended to address catastrophic failure

Doesn’t preclude town from seeking damages

By Kaie Quigley kquigley@inkym.com

Nantucket’s so-called Good Neighbor Agreement with Vineyard Wind was never going to include language about catastrophic turbine failures and how the company would be held accountable for them, according to the law firm that negotiated the deal for the town four years ago.

“The Good Neighbor Agreement was designed to answer the question of adverse visual impacts from the appropriate construction of these things. It wasn’t designed to anticipate everything that could potentially go wrong,” said Greg Werkheiser of the law firm Cultural Heritage Partners. Vineyard Wind would not have

agreed to be liable for something that was hypothetical at the time, he said. The project was years away from putting steel in the water when the agreement was signed.

“You’d never get to an agreement on

Cancer cluster? Residents blame airport PFAS

By Dean Geddes dgeddes@inkym.com

Scientifically it can’t be determined exactly why four people, all who live within a stone’s throw of each other and a stone’s throw from Nantucket Memorial Airport, have a similar cancer diagnosis.

And lawyers might be hard-pressed to make the argument that PFAS exposure from living so close to the airport is the cause.

But to Peter McKay, it seems obvious that the toxic firefighting foam that was used for decades at the airport within sight of their homes is the reason he has prostate cancer.

“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck, but you’re never going to prove it,” he said. “My brother (David MacKay) to the right of

Photo by Karen Quigley

WINGED ROYALTY: A monarch butterfly alights on a zinnia flower last Thursday.

me, Dick (Sheehan) to the left of me, we all have prostate cancer. Three houses right next to each other, all really close to the drain (firefighting

Courtesy of Peter Baker

From left, Susan Glaser, Theo Baker and Peter Baker at the George Polk Awards. POLITICS, PAGE 6A

Photo by Bob Lyons

HANGING OUT: A family of deer make a brief daytime appearance near Long Pond earlier this month.

Photo by Ben McGrath

An aerial view of the damaged Vineyard Wind turbine blade and a support vessel two days before additional debris entered the water.

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Meri Lepore

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PFAS: Neighborhood blames cancer on firefighting foam

foam was washing into).”

Two weeks ago, the group nobody wants to be part of grew by one. Meri Lepore, who lives down the street from the other three, had a cancerous growth removed from her thyroid.

“It’s one of the types of cancer linked to PFAS,” Lepore said. “I feel very lucky, but also a little bit annoyed. Yes, there have been millions of dollars spent (by the airport and town), but I feel like more can be done. Nobody should have to fight to get clean water.”

Peter MacKay was head of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital Social Services Department for 33 years. His wife Allison was a longtime nurse at the hospital. His brother David MacKay worked in the restaurant industry for years, for a long time at the Brotherhood and now bartends at the VFW. He also coaches high school tennis.

Peter was the longtime golf coach. David’s wife Anne Phaneuf is one of the most well-known teachers at Nantucket High School, where she has taught English for decades.

Sheehan worked in the trades, and his wife Mimi Huber is a real estate agent.

The three are next-door neighbors on Monohansett Road, have lived there for decades, abutting the southern runway of the airport.

Lepore, who lives just down the street on Skyline Drive, is a school nurse and a member of the town’s Board of Health.

One day she was watching a video about PFAS exposure when a woman on the screen began talking about symptoms she had experienced prior to being diagnosed with thyroid cancer. It sounded just like what Lepore was experiencing.

She has three children and was pregnant years before anyone knew her well-water was contaminated.

“I’ll have to worry for the rest of my life because my children were exposed to PFAS at an early age. Because I (unknowingly) exposed them before they were even alive,” she said.

Sheehan’s diagnosis came much earlier, in 2000. At the time he said he assumed it was his work as a contractor and a carpenter, working with all sorts of cancer-causing materials like caulks, solvents, paint and sawdust. But that changed as more information came to light.

“When I realized my neighbors got it right around the same time I did, well it’s a cluster. It has to be something that’s looked at,” he said. “And an obvious candidate is the airport. Whatever the hell they dumped on the runway, whether it was PFAS or whatever. We would drive by sometimes and see them spraying the foam down the runway, and foam went right down a drain a quarter-mile from my house.”

Mitigation efforts underway

Use of the cancer-causing firefighting foam was mandated by the FAA, until the connection to PFAS led federal officials to cancel the practice. Since then, the town has appropriated $15 million for PFAS-related mitigation efforts.

The airport has tested private wells in the area and paid for bottled water, filtration systems and eventually bringing town water to many in the area whose wells tested high. They say, and have a good case, that they have done more than the majority of other airports and towns in the country.

The PFAS-laden AFFF foam has been used federally by airports since as early as the 1970s. Developed by the 3M company in the 1960s in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, the foam made up of synthetic chemicals was particularly effective in neutralizing fires and preventing reignition once fires had been put out.

It was almost 50 years later that the harmful effects of the PFAS chemicals in the foam were realized by the general public, and alternatives started to come to market.

“I do feel like someone gave it to me. Because I’ve been drinking the water for the entire 30 years or so that they (used the firefighting foam).

I feel like if that wasn’t done, I wouldn’t have cancer, my brother wouldn’t have cancer, Dick wouldn’t have cancer,” Peter MacKay said.

“I give the airport the benefit of the doubt, the FAA told them they had to use this foam. And (the airport) didn’t know (its toxicity) at the time. But it was firefighting foam, it had to have chemicals, and it was shortsighted to just wash it down the drains into our water table rather than scooping

it up and removing it another way.”

PFAS is a group of thousands of man-made chemicals that are found in everything from clothing to stain removers, food wrappers and beyond, although the firefighting foam had particularly high concentrations.

Not only are they associated with a series of health issues like increased risk of cancers, like thyroid and testicular, but also liver damage, thyroid disease, high cholesterol and hormone suppression.

They are also extremely pervasive, and have been dubbed “forever chemicals” as they continue to accumulate over time. It can take decades to successfully remove them from the environment and the human body.

The ubiquitous nature of PFAS – it’s everywhere – is part of the reason it’s so hard to pin down exactly how much contamination the firefighting foam caused. Well testing only came after the foam’s use had been discontinued. The testing is also limited, only giving a snapshot of a number that varies over time and doesn’t test for all the variants of PFAS, only the most common and known harmful.

At a town PFAS summit in June, Select Board chair Brooke Mohr said that compared to other towns, Nantucket is well ahead of the curve. But she acknowledged that a better job could be done supporting residents whose private well water has tested high for PFAS.

“We know it’s everywhere, the technology to deal with it isn’t moving fast enough for us to address everything,” she said. “But we are doing a lot compared to other communities.”

Lepore’s well tested the highest of the group near the airport, at 32 parts per trillion. Other wells on the island have tested much higher, in the hundreds of parts per trillion, including some in Maddequecham Valley, and a separate group of homes far from the airport on Tom’s Way. But as Peter MacKay pointed out, a single test of well water doesn’t come close to telling the full story.

“The fact the test was taken two years after they stopped dumping, they took a test in 2020 after they found out about it in 2018 and it was fi-

nal,” he said. “If we had taken the test back in say 2016, 2010, they had been using the foam since 1989, you can well imagine what the numbers would have been.”

Big corporations to blame?

In 2021, the Nantucket Select Board voted unanimously to enter a retainer agreement with the law firm Napoli Shkolnik to pursue compensation from PFAS manufacturers like 3M and DuPont that they claim have been producing these chemicals for years and not giving towns and municipalities across the country proper warning about the effects of their use.

Nantucket is one of over 500 plaintiffs from towns across the country being brought together in multidistrict litigation.

For Sheehan it’s those companies that bear much of the responsibility.

“I don’t want to do the blame game, but I’d just like to know how it got to the point where it could be used by airports the way it was, where water would flow off the runway and get into the groundwater system,” he said. “They claim they didn’t know it was dangerous, but a lot of companies deal with dangerous stuff and they keep using it because they make so much money.”

“And they deal with the lawsuits later. Look at the tobacco companies, they denied and denied and denied as long as they could.”

Lepore’s test was over 20 parts per trillion and that meant she was eligible to have the town pay for her hookup to town water. Both of the MacKays tested slightly below the state threshold at the time of 20 parts per trillion. That meant they would receive bottled water from the airport, but if they wanted to hook up to town water, they would have to pay between $15,000 and $20,000, Peter MacKay said.

The state and national thresholds continue to drop, however, signifying the evolving science. And the airport and the town have agreed to pay to hook up Peter MacKay’s home, and others in the area that tested shy of 20 parts per trillion, to town water, he said.

David MacKay says he still feels as though the airport isn’t

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FinCom reverses course on STR article

By Dean Geddes dgeddes@inkym.com

The Finance Committee has decided to back the Select Board’s compromise shortterm-rental article at Special Town Meeting after all.

Three days after a 4-3 vote against the article, the FinCom decided to revote on the matter last Thursday and it passed by a vote of 4-2.

Ultimately the voters will decide whether any of the short-term rental articles on the warrant this September pass. Each will require a twothirds majority to be adopted.

FinCom member Jill Vieth posed the motion to revote.

“I felt like we had a pretty close vote (on Monday). I felt that maybe we should discuss it again,” she said. “People who have worked on this (article) have devoted a ton of time. It would be helpful if we stand

“I think it’s too confusing and it’s not going to pass, however I think it’s important for the three committees to stand together and move forward on something.”

– Peter Schaeffer Finance Committee

united with the Planning Board and the Select Board.”

FinCom members said, even though they might have issues with the article, it was important to be united with the other groups who have supported Article 1, the compromise article, and that it was better than leaving the matter up to a judge.

Peter Schaeffer, who changed his vote, said he still believes the article won’t pass at Town Meeting but felt it was important to support other

groups involved in the process like the Planning Board and Select Board.

“I think it’s too confusing and it’s not going to pass, however I think it’s important for the three committees to stand together and move forward on something,” he said. “I am going to change my vote because I do think we need to do something. Even if it doesn’t pass it shows much more unity than we have had before.”

In the revote, Jeremy Bloomer and Rob Giacchetti voted not to support Article 1, while Vieth, Schaeffer, Joe Wright and Denice Kronau voted in favor of Article 1.

The main provisions of Article 1 include a limit of one STR property per owner, eight rental contracts in July and August and no limit on rental contracts in the offseason. It also includes some legacy protection for current STR own-

ers. Those who currently own multiple STR properties would be given legacy protection for a period of eight years.

Article 1 also limits properties acquired after the bylaw goes into effect to three changes in occupancy in July and August for the first five years of ownership.

At the first meeting reviewing the articles, Giacchetti said he felt the regulations were akin to a taking.

“To me it is a taking of property rights, and I don’t know how you can see it any other way,” he said. “I think we’ve lost the forest for the trees and I don’t think anything this is going to do is going to solve the quote-unquote problem. It looks to me like it’s just going to cause a lot more problems for the island than it solves.”

Summer of success for NRTA bus service

By Dean Geddes dgeddes@inkym.com

In the coming weeks the Nantucket Regional Transit Authority will add a new route, from the municipal parking lot on Fairgrounds Road to the ferry terminals downtown.

The new Fairgrounds ferry shuttle is aimed at alleviating parking and traffic congestion near the Steamship and HyLine docks.

The NRTA’s fare free summer has seen ridership soar, with nearly 100,000 riders in July, said Gary Roberts, the transit line’s administrator.

“Last year at this point (in July) we had 49,000 (riders) and we’re at 80,000 this year,” he said.

The state provided a $410,000 grant in order to make the NRTA buses free this summer as part of a pilot program. The hope was to get more people to ride the bus and in turn alleviate some of the traffic issues that come to a head in July and August.

Town officials announced last week that due to the availability of additional grant funding, NRTA service will remain free through at least the end of the year.

Roberts acknowledged that despite the increase in bus ridership, traffic is as bad as ever this summer, but he said

additional vehicle, so even if the buses are full, the headways are only 10 minutes between when one leaves and the next one comes along,” he said.

“We did that for the busy times, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.”

When it comes to traffic, one area he said is of particular trouble for the NRTA buses is Old South Road.

“Imagine if there weren’t that many people riding the bus. I think there’s more vehicles than ever on the island. I mean, plain and simple, there are just too many cars on the island. We’re on pace to do 150,000 rides between June and July, and if riders didn’t have the buses, they would be on the roads in some form or fashion.”

it could have been even worse.

“Imagine if there weren’t that many people riding the bus,” he said. “I think there’s more vehicles than ever on the island. I mean, plain and simple, there are just too many cars on the island. We’re on pace to do 150,000 rides between June and July, and if riders didn’t have the buses, they would be on the roads in some form or fashion.”

–Gary Roberts NRTA Administrator

The one downside of all those riders is full buses and crowded bus rides. Roberts said he hasn’t heard too many complaints about buses having to pass by riders waiting at stops because they are full, although he acknowledged that it does happen.

“We haven’t heard too many complaints because what we did on the mid-island and Miacomet routes is we added an

“The Old South route, next year we’re going to have to look at changing the frequency because they just can’t stay on time. It’s basically backed up from Nobadeer Farm Road all the way into town, in the morning and then in the afternoon,” he said.

The NRTA is also adding five electric powered vans to the fleet in the coming weeks. Two will replace the existing Island Ride vans that provide pickup and drop-off service for the elderly and disabled, and the other three, which were funded through a state grant, will assist with busy routes, like the new ferry shuttle, and be part of some new projects that NRTA is working on but not yet ready to announce, Roberts said.

The electric vans join a fleet that already includes several electric buses that have replaced the more traditional gasoline or diesel-powered vehicles.

Photo by Dean Geddes

Nantucket Regional Transit Authority shuttle buses, including two new electric models, outside the downtown bus terminal Wednesday morning.

Wind: Agreement not intended to address blade failure

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that because it’s so far ahead of the concept of construction and execution,” Werkheiser said.

But that doesn’t mean the town is straitjacketed now that a crisis has happened, he said.

“The absence of something in a contract doesn’t mean that you’re giving up your rights. In fact, it frequently means that you’re not,” Werkheiser said.

“So, could the town sue for damages if they needed to? Our conclusion is yes.”

That doesn’t mean the town is obligated to sue, however.

Shore-related businesses that saw a loss of revenue due to the floating debris that washed ashore in late July, such as surf schools and charter fishermen, might be compensated by Vineyard Wind and the company responsible for the defunct blade, GE Vernova, without the need for a suit, he said.

The companies have said they plan to set up a financial claims system, but it has not yet been established.

The first blade debris entered the water July 13, and began washing ashore three days later. An additional portion of the blade detached July 18 and remains on the sea floor.

Town officials said the damaged turbine blade shed more fiberglass into the ocean 14 miles southwest of the island Monday and could reach south shore beaches by yesterday or today.

Roger Marzulla, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental attorney, told The Inquirer and Mirror last week he was concerned about a provision of the Good Neighbor Agreement that appears to exempt the wind farm from any liability for potential damages.

Werkheiser said last week he believes that only applies to damages resulting from the town or Vineyard Wind breaching the agreement, not equipment failures.

While recognized as a crisis by the town, the blade disaster does not qualify as a breach of the Good Neighbor Agreement because no parts of it address potential mechanical failures or environmental impacts from debris or other chemicals.

The Select Board is considering renegotiating the agreement, but members have not said what they want changed, added or removed from the current contract.

They have been meeting in executive session to discuss the idea, and Cultural Heritage

Partners met with lawyers from Vineyard Wind and GE Vernova this week.

“We’re not going to be able to replace the federal regulations in place to deal with some of these things, but we could have an understanding of what the process for reimbursement looks like, what the communication protocols are. There’s nothing saying that the town can’t ask for more stringent, high-level, immediate communication, and that the company can’t agree to that, for example,” Werkheiser said.

There’s a long list of topics and questions to be discussed with the wind farm companies, he said.

“We don’t just want to talk to Vineyard Wind about dealing with this one particular blade that fell. We want to have a better understanding going forward of, if a second blade falls, what’s the circumstance and how do we deal with that?”

Werkheiser said.

“Projects go wrong all the time and yet they still sometimes move forward, so we have to deal with those realities and make sure the standard for that, if in fact it’s going to happen, is as high as we can possibly get it,” he said.

The Good Neighbor Agreement allows the town to work closely with Vineyard Wind and its partners, Werkheiser said. If the deal wasn’t in place, the companies would only answer to the federal government and wouldn’t be obligated to make things right with islanders.

Federal agencies, including the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, that shut down Vineyard Wind following the blade failure, enforce regulations for wind farms but do not broker compensatory deals on behalf of small towns.

When the town was negotiating with Vineyard Wind in 2020, BOEM was on the brink of approving Vineyard Wind, Werkheiser said. If the project was approved without the agreement in place, Nantucket would have received a total of $230,000 over 30 years to compensate for adverse visual impacts from the turbines.

The Good Neighbor Agreement requires Vineyard Wind to pay a total of $16 million over a 10-year period and minimize how visible the turbines are from the island’s south shore. Payments started when the company began construction last year. The town has received $4 million so far.

The only alternative to the

agreement would have been a federal lawsuit against BOEM claiming its review of the project was inadequate. That type of case was unprecedented at the time, however, and would not have garnered any better outcome, Werkheiser said.

“The only thing the court can actually order, if you win, is more processes,” he said.

Cape May versus wind farms

That didn’t stop Cape May County, on the southern New Jersey shore, from suing Danish wind farm developer Orsted when the company proposed a pair of projects nine miles from its beaches.

The county started off willing to sign a Good Neighbor Agreement of its own with Orsted in late 2020, but those talks quickly soured. Then a state bill was pushed through that prevented municipalities from opposing offshore wind projects just days after county officials met with wind farm executives.

The executives didn’t mention any restrictive legislation in their meetings with Cape May, said Michael Donahue, Cape May legal counsel for offshore wind.

“Elected officials, from the local to the state level, got very upset about this. It really tainted the relationship, it undermined the trust that people were trying to build with Orsted,” Donahue said.

Then came concerns about the environment and impact on the local tourist economy.

“All of those things over a fairly brief period of time, I think convinced county commissioners to take a different approach,” Donahue said. “We still tried to find common ground (after that), but it just wasn’t there.”

The county and nonprofit organizations protested the wind farm, saying it would industrialize the ocean and pose a threat to marine life, namely North Atlantic right whales. The same argument was made by island nonprofit ACK for Whales in its suit against Vineyard Wind.

They also said the turbines would be detrimental to the view shed of their tourist community. That was also a primary concern of the town when negotiating the Good Neighbor Agreement.

Cultural Heritage Partners helped represent Cape May County for over three years in

litigation against the proposed wind farms, called Ocean Wind, until Orsted pulled out of its proposal last year.

Werkheiser said his firm was happy with that result but recognized that several factors played into the company’s decision to retract its bid for the projects aside from Cape May’s litigation, including supply chain disruptions and inflation.

Several other projects, including some proposed off the coast of Massachusetts, also pulled out of their contracts at that time with the intent to rebid at a later date with more updated cost estimates.

Cape May County commissioners claimed victory when Orsted pulled out last year, and Donahue maintained that sentiment this week.

“Which straw breaks the camel’s back, I’m not sure, but it takes every piece of straw to do it. We were part of that effort, and I believe we played a role in ultimately convincing them that they couldn’t make that project profitable,” Donahue said.

Nantucket Select Board chair Brooke Mohr said last week that town administration’s primary focus is the crisis at hand and not what could have been done four years ago when negotiating the Good Neighbor Agreement.

“For now, I’m spending a ton of time trying to deal with the situation that’s still unfolding,” Mohr said. “The matter at hand is the debris, the impact on our environment. The turbine blade is still hanging. Those are the immediate, pressing problems. Some of these bigger questions will come down the road.”

First signs of beech leaf disease detected

Staff from the Nantucket Conservation Foundation ecology team have detected the first instances of beech leaf disease in Nantucket forests at Squam Swamp.

Beech leaf disease primarily affects the American beech (Fagus grandifolia), but it can also affect European, Oriental and Chinese beech species as well, according to the Foundation.

The disease is caused by tiny nematodes (worms) which infest the buds and leaves of a tree, thinning the canopy cover rapidly, and ultimately killing a tree within two to seven years.

The Conservation Foundation will monitor affected trees and manage them around trails to ensure public safety.

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Unfortunately, no largescale management treatments currently exist for beech leaf disease. Scientists had hoped that

the island’s isolation would protect its beech trees longer, but now that it is established, they can only track the spread of the disease.

Beech leaf disease can be identified by dark stripes appearing on leaves, or heavily striped, shrunken and crinkled leaves with a thickened, leathery texture.

Homeowners who find evidence of the disease in trees on their property should contact their local tree experts to find out what can be done on a small scale in landscape plantings.

Some options include destroying infected plant material after removal and possible chemical treatments for individual trees.

Navy accepts delivery of USS Nantucket

The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of its latest combat ship, the USS Nantucket, Monday, following successful completion of operational trials late last year.

The Nantucket will be commissioned later this year, and homeported in Mayport, Fla.

The Nantucket is an LCS Freedom-class warship, a fast, mission-tailored vessel that can operate in both nearshore and open-ocean waters to counter 21st-century coastal threats, according to a Navy press release.

“The future USS Nantucket serves as a shining example of the perseverance of the United States maritime industrial base and shows that the partnership we have with industry is built to last,” said Capt. Matthew Lehmann, program manager of the Navy’s littoral combat ship program office.

Nantucket is a testament to the enduring connection between the ship’s namesake

community and the Navy, honoring the rich heritage and maritime legacy that the island represents, Lehmann said.

Nantucket is the fourth Navy ship to be named in honor of the island. The last USS Nantucket was commissioned in 1862 to serve during the American Civil War.

“Together, the Navy and in-

dustry will continue our work to prepare her for commissioning and fleet operations, delivering combat capability across the globe,” Lehmann said.

The Nantucket was christened in August 2021. Town manager Libby Gibson and harbormaster Sheila Lucey attended the ceremony at shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wis.

Summer resident Polly Spencer, ship sponsor and wife of Richard V. Spencer, the 76th Secretary of the U.S. Navy from 2017 to 2019, christened the ship.

The LCS-class consists of two variants, Freedom and Independence. The Independence is a trimaran and the Freedom a monohull.

Courtesy of Nantucket Conservation Foundation

Members of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation ecology team

samples of trees believed infected by beech leaf disease.

Courtesy of U.S. Navy

The USS Nantucket, the Navy’s latest warship.

Politics: Glasser, Baker at Dreamland

written about, and we can’t even really understand it yet,” Glasser said.

That televised debate, on June 27 between President Joe Biden and former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump, sent Biden into a political tailspin. A trickle of murmurs that the 81-yearold Biden was too diminished to run for a second term and should step out of the race quickly grew to a steady flow, which included both heavy-hitter financial donors and elected officials.

“What I have really been struck by is that the threat of Trump is what gave Biden the presidency in 2020. It’s the reason he won the Democratic nomination in 2020,” Glasser said.

“He was seen as the most effective opponent against Trump, and in a way it was his undoing as well. Democrats reluctantly, and you could say belatedly, came to believe that he was no longer in the best position to defeat Trump.”

In the weeks after that debate, Trump lived through an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania, picked his running mate and accepted his party’s nomination at the GOP convention.

Biden, in several high-profile interviews, stood firm that he was not stepping down from the campaign.

Then on Sunday, July 21, Biden announced in a written statement that he was withdrawing from the race. Glasser only needed a paragraph to outline the previous few weeks.

“It was hard to know what to expect in advance of this swan song from a defiant 81-yearold who had, until this weekend, demanded that his party ignore the polls and the very visible evidence of his decline to keep him on the ballot,” she wrote in her “Letter from Biden’s Washington” column.

It appears that even Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice president and now the Democrats’ nominee for the White House, did not know what he was going to do.

“What was learned was she was not really in his inner circle,” Baker said. “She was being a loyal soldier, telling everybody that he only had a bad night (at the debate), but that he was a great president, and she was sticking with him.

“She learned the same time we all did. He makes his announcement (in a press release) and soon after he endorses her. Boom. She is off to the races.”

It was a curious political

month in a campaign that is only expected to get curiouser and curiouser. And there are now less than 100 days to election day.

Glasser and Baker met 25 years ago in the Washington Post newsroom. They were married a year later. Both spent time working the Moscow bureau for the Post , but mainly their beats have always been national politics. In fact, Baker grew up just outside D.C., in northern Virginia. They have co-authored nonfiction books, including “Kremlin Rising,” about Vladimir Putin and “The Man Who Ran Washington,” about James Baker III, and “The Divider” about Donald Trump’s presidency.

Glasser calls the parallels of their careers and their life together “a 25-year-long ongoing conversation.”

“We share a great interest in the news and we lived this life in Washington in a way that we were lucky to have a chance to do it together,” Baker said.

They will let an audience in on that conversation Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Dreamland Theater.

Their son Theo, himself an award-winning journalist, will moderate the discussion. Theo Baker is still a student at Stanford and the youngest person ever to win the George Polk Award for Journalism, for investigative reporting for The Stanford Daily that led to the resignation of the university’s president. Washington, D.C. is a place where legacy and power shift with the winds. Asked when Biden became a lame duck, Glasser answered with the exact day and time.

“The second that press release went out, on 1:45 p.m. on Sunday. Washington is a tough place. It is unsentimental,” she said. “Power and focus and attention move very quickly. I think Biden still has an agenda, but it is unrealistic to think he can get transformative proposals through Congress in the next few months.”

Glasser called out Biden in her column for what she called his “hubris and folly” in even beginning his campaign, but she also sees it in the bigger frame of history.

“Still, it’s a really remarkable thing to voluntarily give up power, even if he was pushed to do it,” she said. “It hasn’t happened since 1968 (President Lyndon Johnson) in this country. Democrats are understandably eager to look ahead and to look forward and campaign against Trump.”

In a week in which Demo -

crats have rallied around Harris, former political strategist James Carville went on television and suggested there might be too much giddiness around the vice president’s campaign.

“They’re giddy because they haven’t had anything to be excited about for so long. If you talk to Democrats, like we do all the time, until the last week they’ve been in a kind of depressive state for about a year and a half or so. They were never really excited about a Biden candidacy,” Baker said.

“I was at all his speeches, throughout his presidency and through the 2022 mid-terms and the beginning of the campaign this year. There was never the kind of electricity you feel in a Trump rally or now at a Harris rally. Whether she can sustain that is the question.”

Glasser’s magazine column is a different platform than Baker’s newspaper reporting. His centers on straightforward news and analysis. Hers allows her the freedom to “call it as I see it.”

“What I have seen is a remarkably fast closing of the ranks last week that wasn’t there before. The money people will have their qualms about Harris, but the hunger to take on Trump is so palpable,” she said.

“What will be interesting is when tough times surface in the campaign, and all campaigns go through adversity, will there be second-guessing, recriminations, or will she be able to surmount that? They are united right now, but we don’t know how deep and enduring that support is from those Democrats who weren’t necessarily in love with this idea.”

Baker responds with a New York Times survey of Democratic delegates in which 89 percent said they were satisfied with Harris as the candidate, 10 percent said they didn’t know and 1 percent said they were against her.

“Now her campaign is starting, and it is not a fractured party,” he said. “She doesn’t have the divided party people were afraid of.”

Both Glasser and Baker agree that Trump will approach the Harris campaign in much the same way he did against Hillary Clinton.

“They are doing it already. Some of it is just crude racism and sexism, the kind of attacks they launched against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton,” Glasser said. “But the question is whether it is going to work. In many ways, Trump doesn’t want to move on from running against Biden.”

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gaps in resources and behavioral health services on Nantucket.

“The guess is that usually the reported numbers are less than actual. The goal is to go from four to zero. Massachusetts has over 2,000 overdose deaths a year, and the goal for Massachusetts is zero,” she said. Narcan can be used to reverse an overdose in emergency situations. Lepore said anyone who has opiates around them, for any reason, needs to also have Narcan on hand.

“The only antidote is Narcan. Anybody who’s on opiates should have Narcan in the house. Anybody who’s buying drugs on the street should have it,” he said. “Nobody really knows what they’re getting from their dealer.”

Community Solutions’ newest project to reduce opioid-related deaths is called the Community Naloxone Project, an effort to make Narcan more accessible to the public.

McLaughlin has set up a distribution location at the Family Resources Center, at 1B Freedom Drive, where people can go on weekdays, pick up a free Narcan kit and receive information from the trained staff on proper use.

They can also call (508) 2210193 for information. On Aug. 29 and Sept. 26, McLaughlin and the Family Resource Center will host info sessions, but kits will be available prior to that.

“It’s no secret or surprise that there is a pretty significant opioid problem everywhere in the country. We have a consistent number of opioid-related deaths or overdoses on the island,” said Jerico Mele, the town’s human services director, who has been helping

“The guess is that usually the reported numbers are less than actual. The goal is to go from four to zero.

Massachusetts has over 2,000 overdose deaths a year, and the goal for Massachusetts is zero.”

– Rosemary McLaughlin Community Solutions for Behavioral Health

McLaughlin with this project.

Anyone struggling with addiction can give him a call at (774) 563-1907.

“Nobody comes out of third grade and says, ‘I want to be a drug addict’,” Lepore said. “The chances of rehabilitating someone who’s dead are very small. If they’re occupying a plot in Prospect Hill cemetery, we can’t help.”

The kits contain a box with two doses of Narcan nasal spray, a breathing mask for rescue breaths and a few instruction sheets, some with different hotline numbers, and one with the steps to responding to an overdose.

Those steps begin with identifying that someone is unconscious, then calling 911, and afterward administering one dose of Narcan and beginning rescue breaths. If, after three minutes, there is no effect, administer a second dose of the Narcan and roll the person on their side, or continue rescue breaths until paramedics arrive.

The kit also contains a fentanyl test strip that can be used prior to use to test various pills, with instructions on testing. The Family Resource Center will also distribute the test strips separately from the

Narcan kits.

“You can use it for dope, coke, pills, meth, Adderall and Ecstasy. If you test and your drugs are positive (for fentanyl), maybe you take a whole lot less,” McLaughlin said.

“In the overdose deaths that have a toxicology report, 90 percent of those have fentanyl. There’s no pretending it’s not dangerous, but it could help and that’s what we’re trying to do here.”

There is an existing Narcan distribution program at Health Imperatives, a reproductive and family health clinic on Vesper Lane, alongside their medical treatment programs for opioid users.

Addiction Solutions also distributes Narcan, Lepore said. Doses can also be purchased from Nantucket Pharmacy, Dan’s Pharmacy and the Cottage Pharmacy at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, with no prescription necessary.

Even though Narcan was already available on the island, McLaughlin hopes that providing additional free access can save even more lives.

She is working with other organizations on the island to train their staffs and create more distribution sites. Local businesses, even if they aren’t going to become distribution centers, can reach out to Community Solutions and acquire naloxone kits for their workplace first aid.

McLaughlin also mentioned that there are no negative effects of receiving Narcan when not having an overdose, and that an individual administering Narcan is protected under the Good Samaritan law.

“Dead people can’t get beyond their addiction,” Lepore said. “We want to give everybody a chance.”

The 27th Annual Boston Pops on Nantucket is on Saturday, August 10th at Jetties Beach. Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops on Tour will be joined by Super Diamond, the Neil Diamond Tribute. Best-selling author and island resident Elin Hilderbrand will host the island’s largest fundraiser, Amanda Mena will perform the National Anthem, and Erin and Jamie Siminoff will serve as co-chairs. A drone light show will cap off the event at approximately 9:00 p.m.

ENTRY INFORMATION

General Admission tickets are available to purchase online at NantucketHospital.org/Pops. Adult tickets are $30, children are $10. Tickets are not available at the gate. Information about Reserved Seating is available at NantucketHospital.org/Pops.

General Admission gates open on Saturday, August 10th at 4:30 p.m. at the corner of Bathing Beach Road and Hulbert Avenue at the entrance to Jetties Beach. Lining up and congregating on Hulbert Avenue and Charles Street will be allowed beginning at 3 p.m. The General Admission line will queue down Hulbert.

Security staff will scan tickets and perform contactless bag checks at the gate. The following items are prohibited:

• Alcoholic beverages

• Glass bottles

• Beach umbrellas including canopies and shade structures

• Bicycles inside the concert (free bike parking is available)

• Cordoning off your chairs with tape/rope

• Drones or any other remote flying device

• Firearms, explosives, and weapons of any kind (including pocketknives, pepper spray, fireworks, etc.)

• Tarps larger than 8×8 feet

• Pets (except service animals)

• Any other items deemed as a possible threat

PUBLIC ADVISORIES

• Jetties Beach, Bathing Beach Road, the Sandbar Restaurant and restrooms will be closed to the public on Friday, August 9 and Saturday, August 10.

• Jetties Beach tennis courts will be closed to the public all day on Saturday, August 10.

• Parking at Jetties Beach is prohibited on Friday, August 9 and Saturday, August 10, with the exception of Nantucket Community Sailing students on Friday morning.

• On Saturday, August 10, North Beach Street will be open to motor traffic for concert drop-offs only (at intersection of North Beach Street and Bathing Beach Road). Hulbert Avenue, Bathing Beach Road and the dirt portion of Charles Street will be closed to traffic on Saturday, August 10.

• To ensure public safety, we ask that no unauthorized drones be operated over the event for the duration of the concert.

DRONE SHOW

A drone light show will cap off the event and launch from the Jetties tennis courts at approximately 9:00 p.m.

LIVE STREAM

The event will be live-streamed to Our Island Home, Sherburne Commons, and the Saltmarsh Senior Center. For information about viewing the event at the Saltmarsh, please contact the Saltmarsh directly at 508-228-4490.

FOR GUESTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ASSISTANCE

Handicap accessible shuttle service is available to accommodate General Admission guests who need wheelchair accessibility and special assistance. Two companions can ride the shuttle service with the elderly or disabled guest. Transportation on the shuttle must be pre-arranged. The shuttle will depart from a mid-island location at 5:15 p.m. For guests who use the shuttle service, there is a dedicated beach section with ramped wheelchair access; two staff attendants will assist guests up onto the ramped seating platform. Return shuttle service will be provided after the concert at approximately 9:45 p.m. If guests need to leave early, the shuttle can be arranged to provide early departure. It is suggested that you bring comfortable beach chairs, water and food. Please call the Nantucket Cottage Hospital Development Office at 508-825-8250 for more information and to sign up for the handicap accessible shuttle service. A courtesy golf cart is also available to pick up guests at the top of Bathing Beach Road both before and after the event at the intersection of North Beach Street. Assisted Listening Devices will be available at the event in the Information Tent on Bathing Beach Road.

Motor vehicle, assault charges top court docket

By Kaie Quigley kquigley@inkym.com

It’s been a busy two weeks in Nantucket District Court, with motor-vehicle violations and assault charges topping the list of dispositions.

Robert Ackerman, 52, of Southport, Conn., will have a June 15 charge of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol continued without a finding for one year on the condition he forfeit his license for 45 days, complete a driver-alcohol education program and pay $600 in fees.

Arlin Gonzalez, 44, of 12 Orchard Place, Apt. 2B, will have May 26 charges of negligent operation of a motor vehicle and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle continued without a finding for two months on the condition he pay $150 in court costs.

Vincent Benoit, 19, of 77 Easton St., will have a May 19 charge of negligent operation of a motor vehicle continued without a finding for one year, and a charge of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license continued without a finding for six months on the condition he complete his probation without a violation.

He is also serving a year of probation stemming from a Jan. 7, 2023 charge of using a motor vehicle without authority, and violated that probation by committing another crime. If he violates his probation again, he could spend up to 60 days in jail.

Samantha Brownell, 36, of 9 Surfside Drive, will have a May 27 charge of leaving the scene of property damage continued without a finding for 90 days on the condition she pay $550 in court costs and fines. Charges of operating a motor vehicle with her license suspended and operating an uninsured motor vehicle will be dismissed if she pays an additional $750 in court costs.

Daniel Burrell, 45, of 3 Brewster Road, had a default warrant issued for his arrest for failure to appear in court to face June 17 charges of shoplifting over $250.

Shannon Gonzalez, 31, of 11 Somerset Road, was arraigned on an April 21 charge of operating an uninsured motor vehicle. The charge will be dismissed on the condition she pay $100 in court costs.

Eric Gotay Rodriguez, 26, of 3 Cow Pond Lane, had a default warrant issued for his arrest for failure to appear in court to face June 17 charges of receiving under $1,200 worth of

District Court Report

stolen property. Henrry Lopez, 20, of 17 Evergreen Way, had Oct. 3, 2023 charges of assault and battery, and three counts assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, dismissed due to a lack of prosecution.

Thomas McDonagh, 30, of Garden City, N.Y., was arraigned on July 24 charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop or yield and a marked lanes violation. Not guilty and not responsible pleas were entered on his behalf, and he was ordered to return to court Sept. 16 for a pretrial hearing.

After being continued without a finding for one year and completing her probation without a violation, Cassandra Bustos, 34, of 36A Macy’s Lane, will have an April 30 charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon dismissed.

Michael McInerney, 30, of 5 Sasemin Way, will have two Jan. 6 charges of assault and battery on a person 60 or older and one count of malicious destruction of property over $1,200 continued without a finding for eight months on the condition he complete his probation without a violation.

McInerney will also have two Jan. 7 counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and two counts malicious destruction of property over $1,200 continued without a finding for eight months on the condition he complete his probation without a violation.

Greg Moore, 61, of 8 Meadow Lane, will have Nov. 15, 2023 charges of violating hunting and fishing regulations and carrying a firearm without an identification card continued without a finding for one year on the condition he surrender all of his firearms and items seized to the environmental police.

Moore allegedly illegally killed several deer last season and kept their remains in his yard. Investigators said they found at least six dear heads on his property last fall, according to the police report.

Patrick Gardner, 35, of 5 Sconset Ave., was sentenced to one year in the Barnstable House of Corrections for a Feb. 21 charge of possession of a Class B drug. His sentence will be suspended for two years on the condition he complete probation without a violation and agrees to random drug and alcohol testing.

He also had Feb. 21 larceny and identify fraud charges continued without a finding for one year on the condition he stay away from the store he allegedly stole from, Marine Home Center. Gardner had impersonated one of his employers to buy construction materials at the store, according to the police report.

Toni Amaral Da Estrela, 44, of Fall River, had a default warrant issued for his arrest for failure to appear in court to face May 10 charges of operating a motor vehicle with the wrong license class, driving with an unsecured load and an equipment violation.

Dwayne Anglin, 34, of 1A Manchester Circle, had a default warrant issued for his arrest for failure to appear in court to face April 22 charges of operating a motor vehicle with his registration suspended and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

Jerson Calderon Benavides, 30, of 18 Pine Grove Lane, will have an April 27 charge of unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle dismissed on the condition he pay $100 in court costs.

Lorena Contreras, 46, of 8 Nobadeer Ave., was arraigned on May 23 charges of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration and operating an uninsured motor vehicle. Not guilty and not responsible pleas were entered on her behalf, and she was ordered to return to court Sept. 3 for a pretrial hearing.

After completing his probation, James Egan, 36, of 16 Pine Crest Drive, will have a March 29, 2022 charge of assault and battery on a family or household member and two May 15, 2022 charges of an abuse prevention order dismissed.

Barbosa De Souza, 23, of 3 Weatherly Place, had a default warrant issued for his arrest for failure to appear in court to face March 2 charges of unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and failure to stop or yield.

Gotay Rodriguez, 26, of 5 Wappossett Circle, had a default warrant issued for his arrest for failure to appear in court to face May 29 charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and June 7 charges of receiving stolen property.

Sean Kearns, 26, of 2 Blue Stem Lane, was arraigned on July 17 charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and a marked lanes violation. Not guilty and not responsible pleas were entered on his behalf, and he was ordered to return to court Aug. 19 for a

pretrial hearing.

Ingrida Rascius, 42, of 10 Nanina Drive, was arraigned on a May 6 charge of using a motor vehicle without authority. Not guilty and not responsible pleas were entered on her behalf, and she was ordered to return to court Sept. 3 for a pretrial hearing.

Natalia Shurigina-Orlando, 52, of 4 Wamasquid Place, was arraigned on a May 6 charge of malicious damage to a motor vehicle. Not guilty and not responsible pleas were entered on her behalf, and she was ordered to return to court Sept. 3 for a pretrial hearing.

Angel Deras Mejia, 30, of 30 Appleton Road, was arraigned on July 21 charges of assault and battery on a family or household member and disorderly conduct. Not guilty and not responsible pleas were entered on his behalf, and he was ordered to return to court Sept. 3 for a pretrial hearing.

Alumnae, Current Parents, Past Parents, Grandparents, and Friends are invited to join Head of School Jennifer Galambos for an evening of connection on Nantucket! Thursday, August 15, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. For address details and to RSVP contact

Lainey Segear Senior Director of Community Engagement, at segearl@kentplace.org; (908) 273-0900, ext. 335; or https://www.kentplace.org/alumnae/alumnae-events

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Celebrating Photographer Frederick Clow Wednesday, August 7 6:00 pm This Cultural Lecture Series is sponsored by The Inquirer and Mirror

The gallery will feature images by Fred Clow, longtime photographer for The Inquirer and Mirror, the Associated Press and many other publications. Photographs by Larry Cronin and Anne C. Jennings will also be on display. Complimentary catered lite bites will be o ered in the Silo Gallery 23 Wauwinet Road. Lecture begins at 7:00 pm All NISDA Events are alcohol-free.

Fishing tourneys kick off first week of August

By Christy Bassett Baker Contributing Writer

The water temperature in the harbor has dipped slightly, to 74.5 degrees. The sun will begin to set before 8 p.m. by the week’s end and the moon is currently a waning crescent, often visible in the early-morning skies.

The daylight hours are decreasing and the August autumn glow is already casting a different color across the water. The month of August is the waterfront’s way of saying, “Summer, let’s get this final party started,” as events fill the calendar both onshore and off. During the next three weeks there is something for everyone down on the waterfront.

Aug. 1 begins the second annual August Blues fishing tournament, a month-long bluefish tournament that donates proceeds to Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. There are weekly prizes for the longest bluefish caught during the week for beach, boat and junior, and grand prizes at month’s end for seven different categories, the grandest of all being the greatest combined length of three bluefish.

The tournament is sponsored by 24 different businesses, both local and from afar, providing participants with a plethora of great prizes. Unlike most summers, bluefish have been sparse locally this year, but recent reports are heating up as the end of the month nears.

The 23rd annual Big Game Battle fishing tournament will also kick off Thursday, bringing together world-class sportfishermen to fish the offshore waters around the island.

A wide variety of game fish are sought, including bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna, albacore, big eye, mahi mahi, marlin and swordfish.

Not only about fishing, the tournament is a “FUNdraiser,”

Courtesy of Christy Bassett Baker

Jonas Baker with yellowfin tuna on a recent offshore trip. Yellowfin are one of the target species for this weekend’s Big Game Battle.

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each year selecting a charity to donate to. Since its inception, the tournament has raised and donated over $1 million to charities, including the Jimmy Fund, Boys & Girls Club of Dorchester and the Nantucket STAR program, to name just a few.

This year the tournament will raise money for the charity Good Sports, whose mission is to provide equitable access in youth sports and physical activity to children in high-need communities.

The weekend forecast for the event is by tradition a battle, and this year looks no different. But fierce skies won’t stop this group of anglers on their search for feisty finned fireballs and a good time.

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Pops will fill the evening sky with symphonies and a drone light show, both of which will echo over the harbor. Many boats will pack fancy hors d’oeuvres and picnic dinners, to enjoy along the water’s edge, while anchored inside the west jetty.

The evening segues nicely to the start of Nantucket Race Week, nine days of sailing regattas for everything from kiteboarding to youth Laser and Opti Regattas, Hobie catamarans, Indian sailboats and Alerions; and of course the grand finale of the week, the Opera House Cup, will take place Sunday, August 18.

As the sun sets earlier and fluorescent lights fill the Boat Basin in the evening, a palpable energy will fill the harbor during the weeks ahead. The bioluminescence will soon appear, igniting the waters below much like the stars overhead.

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Time is already thinning, don’t forget to get on the water and enjoy Nantucket’s sublime summer magic.

As they say, “tan lines may fade but memories will last forever.”

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Angered by nudity in art gallery window

To the Editor: Once again, I found myself aghast at the multiple photographs of nude women’s backsides in the window of an art gallery on Main Street. I love art, and can find the beauty of the human body. In today’s world, however, can we not just preserve some sort of clothed decency on Nantucket’s historic Main Street?

There is an epidemic of pornography in today’s homes. It literally destroys families. I am a pediatrician and mother of four. While walking down the historic streets of Nantucket, do we need to be faced with nudity without any warning? Even X/Twitter gives a warning before an explicit image is shown.

Nantucket’s history is colored with people doing good work for equality. Nantucket native Lucretia Coffin Mott was a progressive women’s rights activist and abolitionist. She helped organize the first women’s rights convention in 1848. Frederick Douglass came to speak in 1841 at the Atheneum about the abolitionist movement. Centre Street was formerly known as Petticoat Row due to the unique number of female shopkeepers while many Nantucket men were out to sea on whaleboats in the 1800s. And let’s not forget that the first female astronomer, Maria Mitchell, was born and raised on Nantucket.

As we look toward the Aug. 1 birthday celebration of Maria Mitchell, can we imagine what these forward-thinkers and champions of justice and equality would think of the objectification found in these nude photos displayed in Nantucket’s historic Main Street windows?

It’s interesting that a historic district with such tight regulations about paint colors and how many panes a window must have is fine with outright nudity in its Main Street windows.

JENNIFER ROBINSON, MD

Why we need a new Our Island Home

To the Editor:

Take a moment, close your eyes and envision one of your loved ones, of any age, suddenly needing 24/7 nursing care. You try to care for them at home with private duty 24/7. You discover that private nursing care on-island is difficult to find. Suddenly you realize, you can no longer care for your relative or friend. Hopefully, many of you will not need this level of care.

But if you do, what will you do?

Now, envision having to take your loved one to the mainland for long-term care. Trying to find a long-term care facility can be a challenge. Trying to find one that gives loving care and is not too far away is also a challenge.

This is what will happen if we lose our beloved Our Island Home. Also, think of the cost of the travel involved. Gener-

ations of Nantucketers have found a safe haven for the care of our families and friends. That safe haven is Our Island Home.

The loving care my mother received for the four years she was a resident was a godsend to our family. I was able to visit her as often as I wanted to without leaving the island. I’m not saying it’s perfect. Nothing is perfect.

An example of the outstanding level of care is in the early days of COVID-19. The staff was able to keep COVID out of OIH. Their dedication went above and beyond. They were our heroes.

Today, we are moving forward. We are asking the town for a new Our Island Home, one that will give the residents and staff a place to comfortably live and work. We know the cost is high, but think of it as an insurance policy for you and your family.

Whether you agree or disagree with the location or the design, the bottom line is to save Our Island Home for ourselves and future generations of Nantucket. Let’s look forward, not back.

KATHY GRIEDER

Grieder is a member of Friends of Our Island Home

The neighborly thing to do

To the Editor:

As our island population expands, we look for ways to create communities within our community, based on what we do, where we go and who we see in the course of our daily routine.

We may not know the people we see, but we recognize them enough to say hello. Folks on Nantucket greet strangers in passing, making them feel welcome to the island. I know my immediate neighbors, but not everyone on the street.

For years I drove an old Honda SUV I inherited from my daughter. I loved its size and spunk. Three years ago, it needed work and my neighbor Ryan across the street needed an island car. I sold it to him for a reasonable price and bought a slightly newer Jeep from another neighbor, but always missed the Honda. Over the next three years I saw it parked across the street.

“If you ever sell that car,” I told him, “I’ll buy it back.”

A month ago, Ryan wanted a beach car and bought a used car from a neighbor down the street. I bought back the Honda and sold the Jeep to someone across town. When changing my car insurance, I told this story to the woman at Geico who, when I asked where she was located, said she lived in New York City. She then said, “I can’t imagine neighbors trusting each other enough to buy cars from one another.” I couldn’t imagine it any other way.

LESLIE LINSLEY

Swim Across America the best of Nantucket

To the Editor:

If you were fortunate enough to be at Jetties Beach last Saturday you witnessed the best of

Nantucket.

The annual Swim Across America raised more than $800,000 for funds that will stay on-island to support our cancer patients and their families.

While the funds are vitally important, more significant was seeing our community work, share, enjoy and challenge ourselves. A large number of volunteers set up and worked the event, some arriving at 5 a.m. Without their efforts the event would not be possible.

Our lifeguards participated, ensuring a safe event. Leaders Jill Roethke and Jim Pignato coordinated a huge, detailed event. Children as young as five swam 50 yards. A significant number of kids as young as 10 swam a quarter-mile.

One of our largest number of swimmers this summer took on the challenge of a half-mile or a mile. Many island businesses sponsor the event with large donations.

All these efforts showed Nantucket at its best. Sure, the island is changing and some think not for the better. However, this event shows what dedication and love for the island and its residents can do year after year.

So, next year think about volunteering, participating or donating to this important cause. A big thank you and well done to all who made this possible.

You all are the best of Nantucket.

MARIA ZODDA

Skilled nursing a Nantucket imperative

To the Editor:

I was disappointed to see the July 18 editorial about “How Much is Too Much?” for Our Island Home.

There should be no question. I have had a steady stream of family members in Our Island Home since the mid-1990s. We have needed upgrades on the existing building since that time, and I can tell you, it is time for a new building. We have kicked the can down the road for way too long.

Let me tell you what it would be like not having a skilled nursing facility on-island.

My mother has late-stage Alzheimer’s. We kept her at home until we couldn’t for her own safety and our own. My parents have been together since high school, they are now 85. The longest I think they have been separated was when my dad was in boot camp in the 1960s. Without Our Island Home, we would have to place my mom in a nursing home off-island that had an opening. There is no guarantee where that is.

I would then have to close my business, and/or rent it out, and my father and I would move off-island and rent something close to where my mother was located. We would be away from our friends and our support system, and I’m not sure how good that would be for my 85-year-old father. It would mean getting him new doctors, we would both need new den-

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tists and my 14-year-old dog would need a new vet. So many moving pieces and so much stress.

We are lucky to have Our Island Home. I can see my mom daily, or several times a day. I meet with her care team regularly, and can see how she is cared for and if she is having a bad day or a good day. I can join her for events, for dinner and for holidays. We are fortunate my mom knows us both and enjoys seeing us.

The price tag for Our Island Home includes more than just building it. Although, I admit, I was not on board with moving the location, the truth is we need a new building, period. One that will function well for years to come. The price tag includes moving, I believe, two existing buildings to a new location on the site. This building is designed to meet all the codes that were not in place in 1980 when the present one was built.

It is also designed with expansion already incorporated into the plan. We have learned from the past municipal projects to look forward and plan for the future. We have Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers coming up on the heels of the new building, and that foresight has already been set within this plan, and is included in the price tag.

The community should realize this is a skilled nursing facility that offers rehab and physical therapy. OIH has an in-house medical doctor and an outstanding PT staff. Currently, residents are the ages of 60s to 102 years old. There are many needs that OIH caters to.

Our community has no problem paying for new schools, playing fields and anything that benefits the children of this community. But we should start taking care of the elders of this community who paid for all those projects previously.

SALLYANNE AUSTIN

At what cost success?

To the Editor: I think June and July have been banner months in terms of the weather, with many warm sunny days. On the other hand, the traffic has been horrible. Spending so much idle time in traffic has given me the opportunity to reflect on Nantucket, its recent past, as it is today and a possible future.

When I say recent past, I mean the time since I first visited, 56 years ago this summer. Nantucket has lots of history and most of it was before I found this place, but in the last 50 years I have seen many changes. But, in some ways Nantucket has not changed. For the most part it has maintained most of its natural beauty, culture, arts, individual characters and the allure of an island. Some people arrive here and after spending a short time on-island say, “I want a piece of the rock.”

And why not? Nantucket is a beautiful place, with miles of beaches and bike paths, lots of history, a natural paradise, some great restaurants, etc. I

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call it Disneyland for adults. But there are problems. It is expensive. Everything from bread and milk to rental rates and house prices can produce sticker shock. But Nantucket still appeals to many people who want to visit for a week or two, spend the summer or become residents.

But I wonder if we may be close to the point where we are starting to compromise the ACK values. I am thinking about the congestion: traffic, grocery shopping, dining out, going to the beach, etc. Some of these activities are not enjoyable anymore.

I remember a conversation I had with Bill Klein. He was the director of the Nantucket planning department in the 1980s. At that time, he was bemoaning what he called “the lunch box brigade,” workmen who commuted on the ferry to Nantucket. Bill said they arrived in the morning with their lunch boxes and left in the evenings with empty lunch boxes, except on Fridays when they left with a lunch box full of money.

Bill thought that these workers were taking too much money off the island. He felt that the money earned on Nantucket should be for people who live on the island. I asked Bill, if these workers moved here, wouldn’t they bring a wife and a couple of kids? That would mean more kids in the schools, more trash at the landfill, more traffic and probably numerous other indirect costs. He did not seem concerned. We still have the working commuters, but we have a much larger population and many more houses. If 50 years ago, even 20 years ago, you had told me that in 2024 I could stand in front of Valero’s on Old South Road and look west and see what has been built across the road, I would have said “never, it would not be Nantucket.” If developments like that can be built on the island, who knows what the future holds?

As the Land Bank and conservation interests continue to acquire properties, the available land for additional housing becomes scarcer and more expensive. The day may come that the only space for more housing is to build upward. I don’t know that if the structures being built on Old South Road were four or five stories high, they would look much worse than what is being built now. I realize that my other concern may not be popular with some people, but this insatiable desire for affordable housing may be the beginning of the end. Housing on Nantucket was a big issue 50 years ago. I believe you can never have enough affordable housing. If you are subsidizing or giving something of value away, there will be no end to the demand. Nantucket is a beautiful place to visit or live, and a lot of people would like to be here.

I read recently that the Nantucket Housing Authority gave an estimate of $3.5 billion for the funding to satisfy the affordable housing needs on Nantucket. I don’t know the rationale for that estimate,

but it probably had something to do with the current average house price of $3 million. If we divide $3.5 billion by $3 million it would be 1,167 additional housing units. Assuming three people to a unit (which is probably on the low side), we would have an additional 3,500 residents. What would that impact be on the schools and landfill? More importantly, 1,167 housing units (at 2.5 cars per unit) would be 2,917 more autos on the road. These figures do not include the new houses and traffic for the seasonal people. No one knows what the future will bring, but I believe we need to consider what we are doing to Nantucket. For me, Nantucket is like a 30-passenger lifeboat. Currently we have 28-32 people in the boat, but there are another 30 people wanting to board the boat. What are we going to do?

ROBERT WESTBROOK

ZBA getting it wrong on STRs

To the Editor:

The way Lisa Botticelli was attacked at the recent ZBA hearing was shameful. Why should a person serving on the board of an organization trying to help islanders find housing be the target of an attack based on conflict of interest?

Lisa went to bat for the Lease to Locals program on multiple occasions and helped with the go-forward funding. Lisa was serving as a community volunteer and received no direct or indirect financial benefit. Lisa had no conflict and the ZBA members knew that. Not to be outdone, members of the Finance Committee last week lashed out at Charity Benz, accusing her of involvement with ACK•Now. Clearly, the pro-investor STR lobby is trying to paint anyone who opposes them as an ACK•Now collaborator. They are trying to tell the voters that ACK•Now means “outsider” and trying to tell locals what to do.

This all started at a Town Meeting four years ago and continues on social media, but voters know that all ACK•Now ever wanted was to help the community and, on the STR issue, to support the right of homeowners to rent while opposing businesses in residential zoning districts. Zoning should not be ignored because it is profitable to do so. Most of our board members are islanders. Attacking ACK•Now hasn’t worked for five years and won’t work this time. Voters also know that most of the ZBA, Finance Committee, Planning Board and Select Board members have never disclosed their involvement in the real estate business, including short-term rental properties. Real estate lawyers and brokers, decorators for STRs, STR investors or businesses with STR customers are the real conflicts of interest. With 18,000 year-round residents, why can’t Nantucket find people without conflicts to serve?

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In last week’s article “FinCom rejects all STR articles,” a quote was incorrectly attributed to FinCom member

Peter Schaeffer. The quote that begins “To me it is a taking of property rights . . . ” was by FinCom member Rob Giacchetti.

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doing a public service, but my research indicates that only two of the seven ZBA members serve on any of the boards of Nantucket’s largest nonprofits (Lisa on one and another on the Boys & Girls Club). I can’t say what the motive to serve is for these folks, but, if it was public service, one would think there would be more activity with nonprofits.

There is an element in the community which is trying to extract as much money as they can regardless of the impacts on attainable housing, infrastructure, the environment and the quality of life. This element doesn’t take into consideration the plight of police officers, nurses, teachers and others essential to our community who can’t afford to live here. They don’t take into consideration the fact that many people can no longer enjoy their homes or neighborhoods because of mini-hotels nearby. They control the town government and ignore our zoning bylaw for their financial benefit at the expense of the community.

In addition to ignoring zoning, they ignore the intensity of use that comes with STRs (five additional people in each dwelling), which has an enormous cost. These mini-hotel properties generate more trash, more cars on the road, more noise, more water consumption, more sewage and more demand for municipal services. The federal tax code subsidizes the (mostly off-island) investors, and Nantucket taxpayers will be left holding the bag for the cost of ignoring zoning.

At the Ward hearing, the ZBA members presented the weakest of arguments in support of their desire to promote investor-owned STRs. They ignored the plain meaning of words in the English language (incidental, subordinate, minor) and the opinion of Judge Vhay which cited cases explaining the meaning of accessory use. Their indicated position mocks Vhay, a respected Land Court judge, and will re-

sult in another reversal and rebuke just like the one he gave the ZBA in March. And this isn’t just about the Land Court. Most of the board members are also ignoring the fact that voters have rejected their indicated position on four occasions in the last four years. Why? Because voters know that things have turned for the worse on Nantucket. They know people who struggle to find a place to live. They see the impacts from STR intensity of use. They can’t drive across the island. They see the trash, hear the noise, wait in the lines and watch as their neighborhoods become hotel districts.

Voters want the protection of residential zoning and don’t want the consequences of ignoring it. Why aren’t these things important to the ZBA members?

The purpose of the Zoning Board of Appeals is to enforce Nantucket’s zoning bylaw. It is not to make new laws. In the Ward case, the board might consider a reasonable interpretation of the zoning bylaw and leave it to the voters to decide at Special Town Meeting in September.

PETER MCCAUSLAND Founder, ACK•Now

Environmental safety on back burner?

To the Editor: Thank you to the Select Board and town administrators and staff who have provided excellent communication and have been dealing with the ongoing fallout from the Vineyard Wind blade failure.

Understandably, the urgent priority is to deal with the immediate safety and environmental issues from this major pollution event and I appreciate the significant efforts to do that.

This event has underscored the need for a better understanding of the very limited environmental oversight and protection being provided to Nantucket by state and federal agencies. This blade failure event happened early in the construction phase of offshore wind that is likely to take

many years and ultimately consist of 1,400 turbines in our immediate ocean environment. Oversight of these projects has shifted to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. On April 24, the department released its Renewable Energy Modernization Rule to ensure safe and responsible domestic energy production. This rule allows developers to self-monitor, self-audit and self-report with regard to important safety management systems.

As developers race to build these projects, I am concerned that environmental safety has been put on the back burner. Moreover, on both the state and federal level, an “all of government approach” to get these massive projects built has put pressure on timelines over proper study and procedure.

The small community of Nantucket has been exposed to great environmental harm and future risk without adequate protections in place. The environmental review of these projects was inadequate. The emergency response plans are inadequate and do not even conceive of pollution events such as blade failures. For pollution events, the construction and operating plan for Vineyard Wind is two sentences and reads, “Pollution incidents will be reported in accordance with 33 CFR 146.45. The approved Vineyard Wind Oil Spill Response Plan will be followed for specific pollution response actions.”

In the project’s “Oil Spill Response Plan,” Nantucket is not even considered as a municipality to notify.

The environmental assessment of the incident is being coordinated not by an independent government agency but by GE Vernova, the blade manufacturer. The firm they have hired, Arcadis, gets significant revenue from the offshore wind industry and is certainly not independent.

It is great to learn that the town has been contacted by state Sen. Julian Cyr and the Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Rebecca Tepper, with offers of assistance. However, we

implore our administration and Select Board to call for congressional hearings on this matter in Washington, D.C. The community of Nantucket needs to understand: no one in the federal or state government is looking out for our best interests. If we want environmental laws and procedures followed, the Nantucket community needs to force the issue.

The Nantucket community has significant resources and connections in the environmental, government and legal worlds. I hope that conversations regarding offshore wind

will remain in the public domain and allow for these extensive knowledge and resources to flow toward the continued conservation of our beautiful and special island.

VERONICA BONNET Bonnet is a board member of ACK for Whales

Deaths

Jane Anzovino, 75, of Nantucket, died Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at Our Island Home.

A graveside service is planned for 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6 at Prospect Hill Cemetery. A reception will immediately follow at Faregrounds Restaurant.

Barbara Daunheimer, 79, of Newburyport and formerly of Nantucket, died Saturday, July 20, 2024 at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport. Visiting hours will be 5-8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5 at Twomey, LeBlanc & Conte Funeral Home, 193 High St., Newburyport. Her funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6 at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 893 Main St., West Newbury, followed by burial at Belleville Cemetery in Newburyport.

Memorial Services

A celebration of life for Ruth H. Bodge will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 at Brookside Congregational Church in Manchester, N.H.

Graduates

Samantha Gray , a 2015 graduate of Nantucket High School, graduated Friday, May 10, 2024 from the Kansas State University School of Veterinary Medicine, earning a doctor of veterinary medicine degree. She is the daughter of Angela Gray of Nantucket and Chris Gray of Prairie Village, Kan.

Sydney Jane MacKeigan, of Nantucket, graduated cum laude Sunday, May 19, 2024 from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., earning a bachelor’s degree in international business and management. She was also named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester. She is the daughter of Daniel and Sheila MacKeigan of Nantucket.

Achievements

Meredith Broadus , of Nantucket, was named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2024 semester at Tufts University in Medford.

Stefano Chiampo , of Nantucket, was named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2024 semester at Tufts University in Medford.

Annecy Kagan , of Nantucket, was named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2024 semester at Tufts University in Medford.

Joel MacVicar , a 2020 graduate of Nantucket High School, was named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2024 semester at Tufts University in Medford. He is the son of Angus and Melissa MacVicar of Nantucket.

Marriage Intentions

Emma Deneault , 28, of Brooklyn, N.Y., to Michael Bossidy, 30, of Brooklyn.

Alexa Grott, 28, of Encinitas, Calif., to William Platt, 29, of Encinitas.

Alicia Reggiannini , 30, of Clermont, Fla., to Daniel Hatcher, 34, of Clermont.

Here and There

By Marianne Stanton mrstanton1215@gmail.com

The sun rose at 5:34 this morning and will set at 7:58 this evening.

For the first time in five years we have had a respectable display of daylilies in the front yard, all due to more strategic use of the chemical spray Bobex which has been successful in keeping the deer at bay.

Only one morning, after a heavy rain washed away the Bobex overnight, did I find daylily buds nipped off by deer.

The reason I am so excited about this is that the daylilies that flank the front door, yellow Hyperion and a clear orange variety, Evergold, bloom at the same time that my blue lacecap hydrangeas are at their peak. The color combinations are just stunning.

Another happy garden occurrence this season is in one of my small south-facing gardens where all of the flowers have grown into each other, just like the photos in my English Garden magazine.

Foxglove, salvia, cosmos, snapdragons, day lilies, columbine (yes, blooming again in July) and Shasta daisies are all combining in such a lovely way.

My focus on planting flowers which attract pollinators is paying off. Our yard has attracted many butterflies this summer. Mostly it’s the little white ones, but there are a few monarch butterflies as well. What I haven’t seen in decades are the tiger swallowtail butterflies, which used to be common on Nantucket.

I have to say it’s quite enjoyable sitting on the back porch, watching the butterflies flitter around, seeing the goldfinch strafing the lawn looking for insects, and hearing the highpitched cry of the hawk that’s been hanging around the bird feeder lately.

The busyness level of the island has dropped off as July comes to a close. We’ve found the beaches less crowded, parking more available at the Stop & Shop and the roads not as congested. But August is coming. Will this moment last?

Sitting outside at the end of the day Friday, I felt a chill in the atmosphere that usually portends autumn. Not yet, please. I still have more beach days on my schedule.

Starting next Monday, for the next three weeks, the Nantucket Musical Arts Society will host its free Monday night Meet the Artist series from 5:30-6:30 in the main sanctuary of the Methodist Church on Centre Street. This event is a preview to the Tuesday night classical music concert at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church on Fair Street, a beautiful venue to hear music.

Eva Maria Tausig is the driving force behind these summer concerts, which began in 1959 and continue to bring worldclass artists to our island. I just went online and bought tickets for the Aug. 6 concert when Anna and Dmitri Shelest from Ukraine will be playing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”

To see the full schedule of concerts, hear the artists and buy tickets, go to nantucketmusicalartssociety.org.

Earlier last week I joined a group from the Nantucket Conservation Foundation for a guided tour of the wetland restoration efforts at the Windswept Cranberry Bogs off Polpis Road.

When the Foundation decided to abandon cranberry-growing at this location, for a variety of very good reasons, it embarked on a multi-year plan to restore these man-made bogs to their natural state of wetlands.

Just a portion of the restoration was completed this winter and spring, and the results are beautiful. New trails and boardwalks have been completed in some areas.

Wildflowers from seeds long dormant in the layer of peat under the sand that was applied annually during the cranberry-growing years have begun blooming again. Kelly Omand, NCF botanist, estimated there are seeds from nearly 400 plants in this seed bank.

Karen Beattie, head of the science department at the Foundation, led the tour with commentary from other members of the science staff.

If you want to see the results of the first phase of the restoration, drive out Polpis Road and take the first right after the Wauwinet Road turnoff. You’ll end up in the parking lot of Windswept. Hit the trail, and about five minutes in, you’ll see a restored wetland on your left.

Town manager speaking to non-voting taxpayers Saturday

Town manager Libby Gibson is scheduled to speak at the Saturday, Aug. 3 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Non-Voting Taxpayers at the town meeting trailer, 131 Pleasant St., at 10 a.m. Gibson will discuss current town issues and answer ques-

Pools of blue water surround bright green native grasses and plants with a few little islands of green, created for the flora and fauna that inhabit this wetland. It is a big change from the flat cranberry bog that used to occupy this space. More to come.

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tions. The meeting will also be available on Zoom.

Upcoming meetings this summer are scheduled for Aug. 24, with police chief Jody Kasper scheduled to speak; and Sept. 14. All meetings are open to the public.

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listening to the neighbors even after all that has happened. He points to the new expansion project that clear cut a large portion of trees that acted as a natural border between their homes, to build an expanded parking area for private jets.

“The newest expansion, whether you have cancer or not, they’re cutting down three-fifths of the trees that border (Dick’s house), right

by our house, and that’s clean, good trees, and we’re just going to have tarring and jets there,” he said.

“It’s just emotionally stressful for Dick and all of us, and it just seems like they are tonedeaf to everything that has happened to us with PFAS and cancer. Dick has much more advanced prostate cancer, he’s right on the airport fence, and what they’re doing just seems inhumane, it’s just cruel.”

Thursday, August 1, 2024

Compiled by John Stanton jstanton@inkym.com

1849-175 Years Ago

One of the most dreadful accidents that ever occurred at Nantucket, took place last Tuesday at Madaket. A large party of young gentlemen and ladies from town were spending the day at Capt. Nathan Chase’s, between 10 and 11 o’clock in the forenoon, some of the company – six ladies and three gentlemen – went out on a boat bluefishing. About noon, when off Eel Point, something more than a mile from the shore, in coming about, the sheet of the sail got caught and the boat upended and sunk. The three young men, being all whalemen and used to similar accidents, succeeded very soon in cutting away the mast, rolling the ballast out, getting the ladies onto the bottom of the boat . . . Two of the young ladies drifted away from the boat and perished before rescuers could reach them.

1874-150 Years Ago

(Editor’s note: A squantum is old island slang for a picnic on the beach)

On Tuesday no less than five large squantum parties started away for a day’s enjoyment. They disposed themselves in sundry and various vehicles, went off in great hilarity with flags flying, to Surf-Side, where they pitched their tent and spent the day in sports and song, enjoying the dashing breakers on the south side of the island and the healthful breezes of the Atlantic.

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Day after day our boats bring between 70 and 100 pleasure seekers. Never were we in better condition to receive and care for all who come. New houses have been opened for the reception of guests, at which summer board can be procured at prices from six to eight dollars a week in boarding houses, and from two to three dollars a day in our hotels.

1899-125 Years Ago

Here and There – The brick sidewalks already laid and those in the process of construction will be a delight to pedestrians. The west side of Winter Street is a continuous brick walk; another has been laid beside the Atheneum . . . Parties who made a recent fishing excursion to Sesachacha Pond report a scarcity of perch there. The alleged reason is that several hundred barrels of fish were taken from the pond last winter by seines and shipped to Boston . . . It was a great day at the Nantucket Golf Links, last Saturday. The club-house was used for the first time.

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The Selectmen have instructed chief of police Holland to cause to be killed all dogs running at large that are not wearing collars marked with the owner’s name and a license number.

1924-100 Years Ago

The annual race for the Yankee class which is sailed from Edgartown to Nantucket, after the Edgartown Regatta, was held Sunday morning. The fleet left Edgartown at 10 a.m. and a good breeze prevailed until the boats neared Cross Rip Lightship, where it dropped almost to a flat calm. The loss of wind meant the times the race was completed were between four-and-a-half and five hours.

1949-75 Years Ago

Here and There – While at the scene of a fire last week, Engine No. 4 of the Fire Department stripped its clutch and had to be towed to town. A new clutch for the engine was sent to the island on Thursday . . . The Fire Department had a chance to try out their new pumper Friday afternoon, when the fire blazed up again, this time near Fairgrounds. From all appearances it performed satisfactorily, although it had the assistance of the off-island forest fire trucks and the airport fire truck. The fire burned briskly for a while but was soon extinguished. ***

After last week’s uncertain fishing, you can spot the gleam in every fisherman’s eye. Why? The bluefish are here again. Joe Souza landed the first bluefish on the beach July 27 and Walter Pollak got a 3-3/4 pound blue from a boat the same day.

Lifestyle

Stand-up comedian Wendy Liebman at Dreamland

Takes stage Tuesday in double bill with Jane Condon

By Anna Popnikolova apopnikolova@inkym.com

Wendy Liebman’s 50th birthday present wasn’t a gold watch. It was a comedy special. Her husband, Jeffrey Sherman, a director and producer, offered to produce her special, “Taller on TV,” which he then sold to Showtime.

“Instead of throwing a 50th birthday party, I threw a special,” Liebman said.

Since then, she has released a second special, “It’s Wendy” and participated in a special with Teri Hatcher called “Even More Funny Women of a Certain Age.”

It’s been four decades since Liebman has set foot on Nantucket. She will be reunited with the island for a comedy performance with her friend Jane Condon Tuesday at the Dreamland.

“We actually graduated from the same college, different years,” Liebman said. “She has since given the commencement speech. I, on the other hand, have not. I think if I were to give a commencement speech I would say two things as advice: pick a job

based on what you want to wear to work, and make sure that the thing you plugged in to charge is charging, otherwise you’ll be really pissed.” Liebman and Condon attended Wellesley College, but during those years comedy wasn’t the plan for Liebman. In an oral history called “Americans Facing 50,” she said she didn’t have a sense of humor, and her junior prom date told her that she wasn’t funny in high school. In college, she was studying to be a therapist. “I did go into therapy, myself. Instead of becoming a therapist I went into therapy,” she joked. What took

Garden Club tour hits historic Pleasant Street

By Lucy Apthorp Leske Contributing Writer

The Nantucket Garden Club will host its annual House and Garden Tour Wednesday, Aug. 7 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., this year in the historic Pleasant Street neighborhood.

All six of the private homes on the tour as well as the Nantucket Historical Association’s Hadwen House –open to the public but not on the tour – were originally built in the late 18th or early 19th century and have been lovingly enhanced and decorated.

Every one of the properties will also

treat tour-goers to stunning meticulously maintained and artistically designed gardens, sure to delight and surprise at every turn.

Keep an eye out for the neighborhood resident osprey which you may see perched on a roof ridge, overseeing all the proceedings.

While tour-goers can begin and end their tour at any one of the eight properties, the route is laid out in a

Kevin Flynn revisits his “Fear of Heights”

Reworked one-man show opens Tuesday at White Heron

By Anna Popnikolova apopnikolova@inkym.com

The very first time Kevin Flynn performed his one-man show, “Fear of Heights,” it was at White Heron Theatre, and he wasn’t even off-book yet, as actors call the ability to say their lines without looking at a script.

Finally finished and much improved, Flynn’s play will be White Heron’s last show of this summer season, opening Tuesday and running through Aug. 15.

“White Heron asked me if I would bring it back this summer as the last show. I couldn’t refuse. They’ve been so good to me. They gave me a place to perform this play when I was developing it, so I owe them. And, I get to go to Nantucket,” Flynn said.

“Fear of Heights” is a dramatic recollection of Flynn’s life, career and family history. His grandfather, an Irish immigrant, was one of the men in the famous 1932 photo “Men at Lunch,” which shows iron workers on the high steel in Manhattan sitting on girders to eat their lunch.

The photo is at the heart of Flynn’s story, but in the first iteration of the play he held off pointing out his grandfather until well into the show.

“The actress Judith Ivey saw the show and she said, ‘You wait about 20 minutes into the performance before you show the picture of your grandfather up on that beam. It needs to be right away,’ she said. Now, it starts on that and I go from there.”

Flynn has been making tweaks like this for the past four years. He has been taking audience feedback and spending time adding stories, changing their order and developing the storyline.

In its original form, the show was 55 minutes long, per requirement of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where he first performed it. Now, it’s 90 minutes.

“As its developed it’s gotten much more dramatic. There is some comedy in there but there’s also some drama,” Flynn said. “There’s parts that are funny but it’s really my story, and the choices we make in life and balancing my career and family and fatherhood.”

Flynn is mostly known as a standup comedian and co-founder of the Nantucket Comedy Festival. People keep showing up to his play and waiting for jokes.

“Sometimes when people come see

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Wendy Liebman

Photos by Lucy Apthorp Leske

Left: A microclover lawn in the foreground highlights this updated Pleasant Street garden. Right: A dwarf Japanese maple hangs over a waterfall.

Gardening by the Sea

Courtesy of Kevin Flynn

Stand-up comedian and actor Kevin Flynn will bring his largely dramatic one-man show “Fear of Heights” to White Heron Theatre this month.

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Olympics inspired: Frenchified summer fare

By Sarah Leah Chase Contributing Writer

Somehow, I managed to miss celebrating Bastille Day this summer on July 14 by marking it with a festive French dinner.

The combination of watching the incredibly orchestrated opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and spending a recent rainy night at the cinema to watch

“The Widow Clicquot” over the past week has made me crave armchair travel to France via immersing myself in preparing some favorite French recipes.

Since we are currently savoring warm and sunny summer vibes in New England, my culinary instincts prompted me to revisit my own “Pedaling Through Provence Cookbook” (Workman, 1995), researched and written when I was working for Butterfield & Robinson Travel guiding posh adult bicycle trips in regions of France and Italy back in the 1990s.

In the introduction to this cookbook, I described the process of creating my Provençal recipes as follows:

“Inspired as I am by Impressionist painters who have so memorably depicted the South of France, I have found myself infusing my Provençal-derived cooking with a bit of their technique, first making rough

vy-olive butter, a finishing flourish I had noted to be “a welcoming and almost exotic taste treat in the midst of a cuisine so devoted to olive oil.”

The cut of beef used in bistros in Provence is known as onglet, but stateside, skirt steaks – commonly sold for making Tex-Mex fajitas – are a good alternative that offer a similar chewy texture.

sketches of an appealing image (a flavor in my case) and embellishing it later from memory. Unlike the artist, I don’t retreat to a lonely atelier to complete and personalize my work; rather, I retreat to my cheerful kitchen and its ocean view on poetic Nantucket Island to find whole new waves of inspiration to be layered upon and fused into my original taste sketches.”

My travels in Provence made me become both an olive and anchovy aficionado. While I remain the sort of person who

Dressing:

1 tablespoon sherry wine vinegar

Sea salt to taste

3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

2 shallots, minced

Salad:

10 grape or cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered

Sea salt to taste

1 pound haricots verts, or tender young string beans, stem ends trimmed

3 tablespoons fresh parsley or cilantro leaves, chopped

1. About an hour before serving, prepare the dressing: In a small bowl, whisk together the vinegar with a pinch of salt. Set aside.

2. In another bowl, combine the olive oil and shallots. Set aside, uncovered, to mellow for about an hour. Just before serving, combine the vinegar and oil mixtures, and stir to blend.

1 skirt steak, 1-1/2 to 2 pounds

1-1/2 tablespoons olive oil

2 tablespoons herbes de Provence

Sea or kosher salt, to taste

Anchovy-Olive Butter:

8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature

8 anchovy fillets, drained and minced

1/3 cup imported black olives, pitted and chopped

1-1/2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves Thyme or lavender blossoms, for garnishing

1. Prepare a charcoal or gas grill for grilling.

2. Place the steak on a platter and rub it on both sides with the olive oil. Sprinkle evenly on both sides with the herbes de Provence

would never order anchovies on a pizza and who will always remove a garnishing anchovy fillet or two from a Caesar salad served to me in a restaurant, I learned to marvel at the way minced anchovies would be incorporated into dips, red meat marinades, savory pastries and compound butters in traditional Provençal cuisine.

No wonder I eagerly decided to revisit the recipe for Grilled Skirt Steak with Anchovy-Olive Butter from my “Pedaling Through Provence Cookbook.”

The steak is abundantly seasoned with herbes de Provence prior to grilling and then sliced and dolloped with the ancho -

Patricia Wells has long been one of my go-to cookbook authors and my favorite book of the many she has written is “Patricia Wells at Home in Provence” (Simon & Schuster, 1996). I’ve cooked from this book so frequently that the pages have begun to come loose from the book’s binding.

One of the recipes that recently fluttered into my lap is for the skinny French green beans known as haricots verts combined into a summer salad with bright red tomatoes.

Wells called the combination Red & Green Salad in her cookbook, exclaiming, “For pure, appetizing color appeal, give me fresh green food with flecks of red! Green beans prepared in this manner are ideal with any vibrant, full-flavored dressing.”

They also happen to be an excellent accompaniment to my Grilled Skirt Steak with Anchovy-Olive Butter.

Taste for seasoning. Set aside.

3. Place the tomatoes in a fine-mesh sieve and sprinkle lightly with some salt. Set aside to drain.

4. Fill a large pot with 3 quarts of water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add 2 tablespoons of salt to the boiling water and the beans. Boil, uncovered, until the beans are crisp tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Immediately drain the beans and plunge them into ice water to cool them down as quickly as possible. The beans will take 1 to 2 minutes to cool. After that they begin to lose flavor. Transfer the beans to a colander, drain and wrap in a thick towel to dry.

5. To finish: Combine the vinegar and oil mixtures and stir to blend. Taste for seasoning. Transfer the beans to a shallow bowl, pour the dressing over them and toss to coat evenly. Add the drained tomatoes and chopped cilantro or parsley, tossing to blend. Serve at once as a side dish or salad.

Serves 4.

and some salt. Let stand for 10 to 15 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, make the anchovy-olive butter: Place the butter in a small bowl and use a fork to mash the anchovies, olives and thyme leaves into it. The butter should be somewhat coarsely textured rather than smooth and homogeneous.

4. When the grill is hot, grill the steak over medium-high heat for 3 to 4 minutes per side for medium-rare. Let the steak rest for a few minutes and then thinly slice it, arrange on a serving platter and immediately dollop the steak slices with the anchovy-olive butter, then garnish with the thyme or lavender blossoms. Serve at once. Serves 4.

Looking: Night flying the Cape & Islands

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1974-50 Years Ago

Letter to the Editor – As always it is a pleasure to visit your beautiful island. It is, however, necessary to note that the island is now grossly over-populated by the automobile. Except for the employed islander, it seems difficult to justify the necessity of cars. No visitor should be allowed to bring a car to the island. No

seasonal resident should be allowed to bring more than one vehicle of any type. All traffic should be banned from Main Street. Also, the beach buggy is completely senseless and poses serious environmental threats to the dunes.

1999-25 Years Ago

Robert Garrabrant is a longtime pilot with more than 20 years of experience and thou-

sands of hours in the air. Yet, he says he would not have flown to Martha’s Vineyard on Friday night, as John F. Kennedy Jr. was doing when his aircraft plummeted into the Atlantic with his wife and her sister aboard. Garrabrant is one of several local pilots who say flying in and around the Cape and Islands, especially at night, is unlike flying in any other area of the country.

PUBLIC HEARING

Please be advised that the Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 12, 2024, at 11:00 AM to consider a utility petition from Nantucket Electric Company, for Plan #30945056 to install a new hand hole and approximately 120’ of 2-3” conduit to provide electrical service to 10 Newtown Road. The hearing will be held via Zoom Webinar. Please see meeting posting for remote participation and viewing links. For further information, please email TownManager@nantucket-ma.gov

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SELECT BOARD

Please be advised that the Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 12, 2024, at 11:00 AM to consider a utility petition from Nantucket Electric Company, for Plan #30993064 to install 140’ of 2 (3)” conduits, one new hand hole, and one new transformer at 2 Nobadeer Way. The hearing will be held via Zoom Webinar. Please see meeting posting for remote participation and viewing links. For further information, please email TownManager@nantucket-ma.gov

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CITATION

ON PETITION FOR ORDER OF COMPLETE SETTLEMENT

The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Nantucket Division Docket No. NA24P0010EA In the Estate of THOMAS J. BARNOTH

Date of Death February 25, 2023

A Petition for Order of Complete Settlement has been filed by Robert Dimler, Esq. Plymouth, MA requesting that the court enter a formal Decree of Complete Settlement including the allowance of a final account, of the Special Persona Representative and other such relief as may be requested in the Petition.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this court before: 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 08/16/2024.

This Is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection If you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an affidavit of objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.

WITNESS, HON. DENISE L. MEAGHER, First Justice of this Court, July 16, 2024 . Sarah E. Maxwell R01 Register of Probate Court

Red and Green Haricots Verts Salad

Photo by Sarah Leah Chase

Grilled skirt steak with anchovy-olive butter and red and green haricots verts salad. Good Dish

Grilled Skirt Steak with Anchovy-Olive Butter

Seen on the Scene: Stargazer Gala

The Maria Mitchell Association held its annual Stargazer Gala last Thursday on the shore of Polpis Harbor, where attendees enjoyed light bites, rum drinks and festive music to benefit the island science organization founded in the spirit of astronomer Maria Mitchell.

Seen on the Scene: DreamBig

The Dreamland Theater held its annual DreamBig fundraiser Sunday at a private Tom Nevers home, honoring best-selling island author Elin Hilderbrand and presenting Aunt Leah’s Fudge owner Leah Bayer with its Fred Rogers Good Neighbor Award.

Please be advised that the Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 12, 2024, at 11:00 AM to consider a utility petition from Nantucket Electric Company & Verizon New England Inc., for Plan #30944545 to replace/ relocate a joint owned pole & install approximately 30’ of conduit, a proposed hand hole & splice box on Quidnet Road. The hearing will be held via Zoom Webinar. Please see meeting posting for remote participation and viewing links. For further information, please email TownManager@ nantucket-ma.gov

Please be advised that the Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 12, 2024, at 11:00 AM to consider a utility petition from Nantucket Electric Company, for Plan #30976297 to install approximately 12’ of 3” conduit from existing pole 1 to proposed hand hole HH 1-1 on Candlehouse Lane. The hearing will be held via Zoom Webinar. Please see meeting posting for remote participation and viewing links. For further information, please email TownManager@nantucket-ma.gov

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

In accordance with MGL Chapter 131, Section 40, and pursuant to Regulation 310CMR10:05, et seq., and with Nantucket By-Law Chapter 136, Section 3D, the Nantucket Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Thursday August 8, 2024, at 5:00 PM to consider Amending an Order of Conditions filed by 13 Commercial Street LLC to include a newly proposed addition with associated landscaping, grading, and utilities installation within buffer zone to resource areas at 13 Commercial Street; Map: 42.2.4 Parcel: 10. The meeting will be held in hybrid format, inperson at 4 Faregrounds Road in the community room with remote participation via Zoom. Information on viewing or attending the meeting can be found at https://www. nantucket-ma.gov/138/Boards-Commissions-Committees R07 NANTUCKET CONSERVATION COMMISSION

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

In accordance with MGL Chapter 131, Section 40, and pursuant to Regulation 310CMR10:05, et seq., and with Nantucket By-Law Chapter 136, Section 3D, the Nantucket Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Thursday August 8th, 2024, at 5:00 PM to consider the Notice of Intent filed by Nantucket Islands Land Bank to perform invasive species management within buffer zone to resource areas at Consue Springs; Map: 55 Parcel: various. The meeting will be held in hybrid format, in-person at 4 Faregrounds Road in the community room with remote participation via Zoom. Information on viewing or attending the meeting can be found at https://www.nantucket-ma. gov/138/Boards-Commissions-Committees

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PUBLIC HEARING

Please be advised that the Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 12, 2024, at 11:00 AM to consider a utility petition from Nantucket Electric Company, for Plan #30950657 to install approximately 125’ of 2-3” conduit from an existing handhole to proposed handhole (88-3) along Hummock Pond Rd to provide service to 190 Hummock Pond Road. The hearing will be held via Zoom Webinar. Please see meeting posting for remote participation and viewing links. For further information, please email TownManager@nantucket-ma.gov

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PUBLIC HEARING

Please be advised that the Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 12, 2024, at 11:00 AM to consider a utility petition from Massachusetts Electric Company, for Plan #30802041 to install underground facilities, to include two new hand holes & 2-3” conduit at Pole 9 on Easton Street. The hearing will be held via Zoom Webinar. Please see meeting posting for remote participation and viewing links. For further information, please email TownManager@nantucket-ma.gov

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

In accordance with MGL Chapter 131, Section 40, and pursuant to Regulation 310CMR10:05, et seq., and with Nantucket By-Law Chapter 136, Section 3D, the Nantucket Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Thursday August 8, 2024, at 5:00 PM to consider the Notice of Intent filed by Danielle E. DeBenedictis to replace an existing septic system with an I/A septic system within buffer zone to resource areas at 17 Sesachacha Road; Map: 21 Parcel: 18 & 19. The meeting will be held in hybrid format, in-person at 4 Faregrounds Road in the community room with remote participation via Zoom. Information on viewing or attending the meeting can be found at https://www. nantucket-ma.gov/138/Boards-Commissions-Committees

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TOWN OF NANTUCKET INVITATION FOR BIDS

BULK HAULING OF MATERIALS

The Town of Nantucket, through its Town Administration, is requesting qualified bidders to submit applications for Bulk Hauling of Materials. IFB documents will be available online beginning on July 30, 2024 at 2PM at https://procurement. opengov.com/portal/nantucket, via OpenGov Procurement, a web-based procurement system. Applications will be accepted until 2PM on August 16, 2024. The Town of Nantucket reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The Select Board must approve this contract.

NOTICE OF CONSERVATION COMMISSION VACANCY

The Select Board is accepting applications for a vacant seat on the Conservation Commission, term ending 2026. Information on the responsibilities of the Conservation Commission may be obtained from the Town’s website at https://www.nantucket-ma.gov/326/ConservationCommission. Interested individuals may obtain a “Committee Interest Form” at https://www.nantucket-ma. gov/DocumentCenter/View/105/Standard-CommitteeApplication?bidId=. Completed applications can be mailed to Town Administration, 16 Broad Street, Nantucket, MA 02554 or emailed to emooney@nantucket-ma.gov. Applications must be submitted by Friday, August 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM. Applicants will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and review their applications at the September 25, 2024 Select Board meeting, and appointments will be made.

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From left: Lindsey and Tyler Hardy; John Lancaster, Regina Jorgenson and Gail Walker; Eric Savetsky and Pat Levesque.

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From left, David Tribble and Rebecca Bartlett; Sofie and John Maraganore and Romania Hunter; Rebecca Becker, Grace Hull, Pepper Frazier and Courtney Cotter.

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Flynn: Brings reworked show to White Heron

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The Trial Court

Of course, he said, the show has some laughs, but it’s not a laughing matter. He decided to write the play about his life because he wanted to create something meaningful.

“I had to write this, it had to come out of me,” he said. “It was

it they think they’re coming to see comedy, and I say, come see me do stand-up when I’m doing stand-up. This is a play,” he said. “With comedy, if I’m telling a story it has to be funny. That’s the criteria. In stand-up you scratch the surface. This gets a lot deeper into why we make the choices we make and how you live with the consequences of those choices.”

a chapter of my life that was just about over and I was looking back and it was something I felt I had to write.”

The turning point of the story takes place after Flynn was robbed at gunpoint. He began rethinking his life goals and his idea of success. He had been looking for fame and fortune since he was young, but

suddenly, fame and fortune seemed superficial.

“I started thinking, what’s important in life? What am I waiting for? I was always pursuing this goal of fame and fortune that could be over in a minute and what do you have to show for this life you’ve lived? That’s where the drama

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Liebman: Stand-up comedian at Dreamland Tuesday

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her from therapy to comedy, and back to therapy, was misplaced mail.

“I was planning on being a therapist and one day, I took the mail in from the wrong apartment. In it was a catalog for night school, and one of the classes was how to be a standup comedian. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt an “aha” moment, but when I saw it I heard angels and bells and I thought, ‘I need to do that’,” she said.

“Don’t worry, I gave the course catalog to the correct apartment after that.”

Liebman began to do open mics in Boston, and started getting paid gigs. A booker from “The Tonight Show” saw her act and invited her to perform on the show, where she appeared in 1991. She has since performed on David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon

and Johnny Carson. In 1996, she won the American Comedy Award for Female Stand-up Comedian of the Year.

“I never really thought of myself as a female comedian. I know I am, but when I started, since I didn’t reduce myself to that, I didn’t let the audience do that,” she said.

“The person on stage is the quote-unquote leader. The audience has to decide, do they want to follow that person? I think the same with politics, the audience has been reluctant to let a woman be the leader, but I don’t think that way. I have confidence, so the audience should have confidence.”

Liebman said she doesn’t like limiting her act or audience, whether to a gender or to an age group. She wants her comedy to be funny and accessible across demographics.

“I’ve been told that generations can come to the show to-

gether. People bring their kids and they also like me. The kids, meaning, in their 20s. I don’t have a target demographic. In the same way that I feel like I don’t just appeal to women,” she said.

Liebman’s act is based in wordplay and witty, regular life observations. She comments a lot on her relationship with her husband, her family and her domestic life, from household chores to dieting.

She also runs a comedy Facebook account, where she posts new material and joke prompts every day. She also wrote a book called “Swear on Lily,” which she didn’t publish but posted on her website. The book is like a diary of the mundane, hilarious and existential parts of her life.

Her writing moves very quickly between a quip about the shallowness of LA – “when we got our dog the people told

us he was 4 but the vet said that based on his teeth and his bones, he was at least 8. I thought WOW! They even lie about their dog’s age in Beverly Hills!” – to “The only good thing about losing a dog is, you know they were loved by you until the end,” in the span of a page.

Still, Liebman’s true love is performing in front of a live audience.

“When I’m having a great show, I feel like a puck on an air hockey board. I just feel ebullient,” she said.

“I once got to open for Bob Hope, in Indianapolis, for 5,000 people. But then I performed for eight people once in the basement of an Italian restaurant and it was joyful. It’s not the size of the audience, it’s the experience.”

Wendy Liebman and Jane Condon, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Probate and Family Court Department

Nantucket Division Docket No. NA15P0015EA

Estate of: Edward A Woolley Date of Death: 08/09/2014

CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE

To all interested persons: A Petition has been filed by: David Woolley of Yorktown Heights NY requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order that David Woolley of Yorktown Heights NY be appointed as Successor Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond and for such other relief as requested in the Petition.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 09/12/2024.

This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

WITNESS, Hon. Denise L Meagher, First Justice of this Court. July 24, 2024

Sarah E. Maxwell R03 Register of Probate Court

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Grueling but worth it: Nine islanders cycling Pan-Mass this weekend

By Jamie Cushman jcushman@inkym.com

When Roger Hobby first began riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge over two decades ago, he didn’t know the full extent of the impact that cancer would come to have on his life.

“I didn’t know my mother was going to have cancer 23 years ago, and my sister has had skin cancer, my father currently has brain cancer,” he said. “It seems that as we sort of age, the likelihood of people that we know, love and care about that are going to be impacted by it is significant.”

Now in his mid-50s, Hobby, who has been visiting Nantucket for over a decade, lived on-island year-round for the past two years and recently retired as an executive vice president at Fidelity Investments, will participate in his 23rd Pan-Mass Challenge this weekend.

He was initially inspired to join the annual long-distance bike ride to fund cancer research when he witnessed a friend’s recovery from breast cancer, before the disease touched his immediate family.

“I started to think to myself that there was this amazing progress that had been made such that breast

cancer wasn’t a death sentence,” he said. “It was an experience sadly that people have to go through, but with the right treatment, caught the right way, like lots of things it can actually be cured and/or eliminated from the body.”

Each year the Pan-Mass Challenge attracts nearly 7,000 cyclists to a twoday ride that spans anywhere from 25 miles to over 200 miles and traverses nearly 50 towns across the state.

The charity bike ride is a fundraiser for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and amounts to about half of the organization’s annual fundraising, generating $972 million since 1980.

“There’s something about suffering on a bicycle, and I don’t always suffer anymore now that I’m 23 years in, it’s kind of a nice sort of ride, but there’s something about really working hard on a bicycle, knowing that you’re suffering,” said Hobby, who personally has helped raise over $400,000 over his 23 years participating in the PMC.

“It’s hard, but you’re raising money for people that are suffering far worse than you are, and it’s a great honor to be able to ride your bicycle, to be outside, to do those things, to have that life.”

Mleczko brings Ice Out ALZ back to Cisco Aug. 8

By Jamie Cushman jcushman@inkym.com

Sometimes the disease robs you of your equilibrium and leaves you in the gathering dusk. That is true of both sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease and the family members who take care of them.

“This disease is so treacherous and it’s so heavy that it’s hard to see through the murk when you’re in it like we are with my mom,” said Olympic gold and silver medalist AJ Mleczko, whose mother Bambi was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s eight years ago. But as efforts to combat Alzheimer’s disease progress, she continues to spread a message of hope for families in the midst of the fight with the neurodegenerative disease.

“The crux of it to me is that we’re obviously raising money, but we’re celebrating hope and optimism,” she said.

Mleczko’s annual Ice Out ALZ fundraiser is next week. The event will be held Thursday, Aug. 8 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Cisco Brewers.

“When you can take a step back and work with organizations that are researching and fighting this disease like the Alzheimer’s Association, I think it gives people like me, my children and other families that are affected by this disease that ever-critical optimism that we need to keep moving forward,” Mleczko said.

Last year the event was held just a few days after the FDA approved Leqembi, the first drug to treat the devastating progressive disease by targeting the amyloid plaques that build up in the brain, the main characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease.

Since then, a similar drug, Kisunla, also received FDA approval early last month and a new study in the medical journal JAMA last week found that blood tests can about 90 percent of the time correctly identify if a patient’s loss of memory is due to Alzheimer’s.

While blood tests are not yet widely available, their potential to identify the disease earlier, before a patient begins to show symptoms, could be critical in the fight against Alzhei -

Viselli steps down as volleyball coach

By Jamie Cushman jcushman@inkym.com

For the first time since the Whalers volleyball team was formed in 2015, Andrew Viselli will not be on the sidelines when the season begins this fall.

The island’s first and only varsity girls volleyball coach, Viselli took the Nantucket program from a club team to a squad that reached the state tournament every year since 2017, including a run to the Div. 4 quarterfinals in 2022 and a Cape & Islands League Lighthouse Division championship.

“I learned from a very young age in my first coaching stop, I’m not coaching a team. I’m not coaching 10, 12, 15, 18 kids as a singular team, my job is to build a program,” he said.

Viselli will retire from coaching after 30 years in the Massachusetts high school and collegiate ranks, a career that led to him being inducted into the Massachusetts Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2022. He became heavily active in the practice of meditation and breathwork in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. He now holds multiple certifications and is leading private classes in the techniques, along with a course at Nantucket High School.

He said the challenges of balancing his newfound passion for meditation

Courtesy of AJ Mleczko

AJ Mleczko, left, and her mother Bambi, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease eight years ago.

Photo by Jamie Cushman

Swim Across America-Nantucket held its annual open water swim Saturday at Jetties Beach, raising a record $825,000 to support on-island cancer services. Log on to ack.net for more photos.

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Photo by Jamie Cushman Whalers varsity girls volleyball coach Andrew Viselli is retiring from coaching after 30 years in the Massachusetts high school and collegiate ranks, including the past nine on Nantucket.

Courtesy of Roger Hobby

Island resident Roger Hobby, second from left, will participate in the Pan-Mass Challenge route from Bourne to Provincetown Sunday.

Viselli: Island’s first and only varsity volleyball coach retires after 30-year career

with coaching factored into his decision to retire.

“Just trying to really weigh all of it in terms of can I do a full season of coaching and continue doing what I love?” Viselli said.

“Don’t get me wrong, I love coaching, but as the end of the school year progressed and as we got halfway through the summer, it was like I really need to start thinking about this.”

Viselli said he met with athletic director Travis Lombardi last week to explain the situation.

“After that conversation I had with him, I left and I was walking home, and it just felt right in my body. There wasn’t any stress, so I guess at that point I just knew it was the right decision,” Viselli said.

“I talked to one of my mentors who’s been coaching for probably 50 years in some capacity or another. We were talking about it and he said, ‘Coach, there’s no timeline. When you know, you know’.”

Lombardi said the head coaching position was posted Monday, and he hopes to fill

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the vacancy soon. The first day of practice for the upcoming volleyball season is Aug. 19, less than three weeks away.

“Coach Viselli’s dedication, passion and leadership have not only led his teams to numerous wins, but have also built a strong foundation for the program’s future. Beyond the wins and his team’s success, coach Viselli created an environment where his players thrived both on and off the court, forming lifelong friendships and developing skills that extend far beyond the game,” Lombardi said.

Viselli began his coaching career in 1994 at St. John’s Prep in Danvers when he was still a senior on the Salem State College team, starting the team’s boys volleyball program that won multiple state titles under his tenure. Before coming to the island he also had stops at Reading Memorial High School, Salem State and Endicott College.

“It comes back to having great athletic directors, parents and the kids who show up every day and dedicate themselves to it, that’s how you have the success,” Viselli said.

“I feel blessed to have been

able to start the program here, bring volleyball to the high school and allow these kids to experience this great sport that they continue playing for the rest of their lives.”

The Whalers’ immediate success on the volleyball court came despite not having any organized youth program for the sport on the island. Viselli said that aside from one or two

players, the athletes joining the Whalers each fall were new to the sport of volleyball outside of gym class.

“People have always said through the years, ‘Oh, you lost so and so, you’re not going to be as good as you were.’ The year we lost Malika (Phillip) and that whole graduating class, people were like, ‘Oh, you’re not going have as good a year.’

That was the year we won the league. That was the year we had our best record,” Viselli said.

“It’s not the loss of them, it’s the trust in who’s stepping up. It’s not talking about what you lost, it’s saying now is your time to shine.”

Throughout all the wins and losses in various tournaments and postseason runs, Viselli said his favorite moments always came at practice, putting in the work when the bleachers were empty.

“Practice is the time when you’re building those relationships, when you’re seeing the growth in these players. Not just in volleyball, but maturing emotionally, socially, physically,” Viselli said.

“You’re laughing, you’re crying, sometimes they hate you,

sometimes they love you. It doesn’t matter, we have a job to do as a coach. It never once felt like a job coaching for 30 years and however many, probably like 58 seasons of volleyball through the years.”

Viselli said he presented Lombardi with a list of qualified candidates to succeed him and offered his assistance and expertise to his successor, should they want any help from him.

“I’m just really grateful, grateful to the island because I know the island is a little slow to accept change sometimes, and to bring in a brand-new sport is a challenge,” Viselli said.

“I’m grateful for the people who put their trust in me getting this program up and running, athletic directors Chris Maury, Travis Lombardi and Matt Hunt. I’m just full of gratitude and I’m really looking forward to watching the continued growth of the players and this program.”

PUBLIC NOTICE

A HYBRID PARTICIPATION PUBLIC HEARING of the NANTUCKET ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS is scheduled for 12:00 PM on Thursday, August 15, 2024, in the Public Safety Facility Building at 4 Fairgrounds Road, Nantucket, MA, 02554 and remote participation via Zoom Webinar. Information about viewing the meeting can be found at https://www. nantucket-ma.gov/138/Boards-Commissions-Committees. A complete copy of each application is on file with the Zoning Board of Appeals at the office of Planning and Land Use Services at 2 Fairgrounds Road, Nantucket, MA 02554. Requests to review an electronic copy of the complete application materials may be submitted via e-mail to wsaad@nantucket-ma.gov. Written comments for the August 15, 2024, meeting received by 3:00 PM on Thursday, August 8, 2024, will be provided to the Board in advance of the meeting.

NEW BUSINESS (INITIAL PUBLIC HEARINGS AND VOTES MAY BE TAKEN): K22S, LLC

File No. 21-24

The Applicant is requesting relief by Special Permit pursuant to Zoning Bylaw Section 13933.A(1)(a). Specifically, the Applicant is seeking to renovate and relocate the garage structure within the nonconforming easterly side yard setback area, reducing the setback encroachment from its current position of .0 feet from the easterly side yard lot line to approximately two (2) feet at its closest point. The use will remain a garage with an added interior studio. Locus is situated at 126R Main Street and shown on Assessor’s Map 42.3.3 as Parcel 98.1. Evidence of the Owner’s title is recorded in Book 1942, Page 74, and shown as Lot 2C in Plan No. 202329 with the Nantucket County Registry of Deeds. The site is zoned Residential Old Historic (ROH).

Nancy Thornton, Successor Trustee of the SE Catcher Trust File No. 23-24

The Applicant is seeking Variance relief pursuant to the Zoning Bylaw Section 139-32 to validate the location of the studio/accessory structure. The structure is currently sited as close as 3.6 feet from the side yard lot line in a zoning district that requires a minimum of five (5) feet and was constructed without the necessary permits. Locus is situated at 6 West Dover Street and shown on Assessor’s Map 55.4.1 as Parcel 191. Evidence of owner’s title is recorded in Book 1926, Page 183 with the Nantucket Country Registry of Deeds. The site is zoned Residential Old Historic (ROH).

Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, as Trustee of Ocean Avenue Nominee Trust File No. 24-24

The Applicant is requesting relief by Special Permit pursuant to Zoning Bylaw Section 13933.A(1)(a). Specifically, the Applicant seeks to remove and reconstruct the existing bicycle shelter currently sited in the westerly front yard setback, increasing the setback distance from the front yard lot line from three (3) feet to approximately eleven (11) feet in a zoning district that requires a minimum of 35 feet. Additionally, the Applicant proposes to alter the principal dwelling which will result in the closest point of the structure being sited as close as 28.5 feet where 35 feet is required. To the extent necessary, the Applicant seeks relief by Variance pursuant to Section 139-32. Locus is situated at 20 Ocean Avenue and shown on Assessor’s Map 73.2.4 as Parcel 20 and as Lot 12 upon Land Court Plan No. 9595-H. Evidence of Owner’s title is registered on Certificate Title No. 19945 with the Nantucket County District of Land Court, and recorded in Book 703, Page 115 with the Nantucket Registry

Photo:

Photo by Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office

The state champion Whalers boys lacrosse team visited the State House in Boston last Thursday, meeting with Gov. Maura Healey, Rep. Dylan Fernandes and Sen. Julian Cyr. All Massachusetts high school state champion teams are invited to Beacon Hill to meet with the governor and receive a special citation for their victory. Nantucket defeated Sandwich 7-6 in the Div. 4 boys lacrosse state championship June 15. Log on to ack.net for more photos.

July 30 Brant Point Runners

Photo by Jamie Cushman

Whalers head coach Andrew Viselli and libero Vicky Todorova on the sidelines last fall.

Two Little Blue Heron sightings this week

By Ginger Andrews Contributing Writer

An adult Little Blue Heron is the featured bird this week. One was seen at Eel Point July 24 and it, or another, delighted birders at the Creeks Saturday. Although relatively common across the southeastern U.S. from Massachusetts to Florida and around the Gulf, they are not always easy to spot.

Southeastern Massachusetts is the northern end of their range. The first state record was in 1852. Considered a rare vagrant on Nantucket up until the 1940s, they increased notably after the passage of legal protection for birds.

The first local record is from August 1922 and there were no further reports until 1939, when one adult was followed by four single immatures, spaced a few days apart. Since the plumages of adults and immatures are strikingly different, the initial lack of records may have come simply from misidentification of firstyear birds. Juvenile plumage is white and they look remarkably like Snowy Egrets until they start to get some of the charcoal gray or bluish tint coming in.

The “piebald,” or “calico” in-between stage is dramatically different from both adults and young. Adults in their dark blue and purplish tones melt into the shadows, where they easily disappear in dense vegetation.

They forage slowly in shallow wetlands, swamps and marshes, salt or fresh. They eat a variety of small fish, amphibians such as frogs, crayfish and crabs, and insects like grasshoppers or drag-

Island Bird Sightings

onflies.

In their first season their resemblance to Snowy Egrets gives them an advantage. They are less likely to be ostracized or attacked when they appear so similar. It turns out they eat better when palling around with Snowies.

Snowies are more active feeders, dancing around in the water, stirring up the bottom with their yellow feet, uncovering or attracting bait. So immature Little Blues catch more fish – or whatever the going morsel-du-jour happens to be – with less work.

Little Blue Herons do not have yellow feet. So in 1983, when a bird looking somewhat like an adult Little Blue but with yellow “slippers” turned up, it was very confusing to local birders. Was it some kind of hybrid? A mutation? Strange color-morph? It took a couple of months before

an expert in African birds recognized it as a Western Reef Heron, the first one to appear on this side of the Atlantic.

Chances are, such a discovery would not take so long today. But it shows how attention to detail can pay off in new discoveries.

Little Blue Herons were not themselves hunted for the infamous plume trade in the late 19th century. But they nested in colonies along with Egrets and Night Herons, which meant that the disturbance caused by gunners’ wholesale slaughter affected them too.

But their hold in Massachusetts as a breeding species is still tenuous. It is surprising in a way, because both Great and Snowy Egrets made consistent increases until recently.

Great Egrets began breeding in the state in 1954, snowy egrets in 1955. The first Little Blue nest was found in Marshfield in 1940, but they were not established until the 1970s.

They were confirmed breeding in four blocks in the first Breeding Bird Atlas, but only in one during the second survey, completed in 2011.

So, their decline is significant, while both Egrets seem relatively, cautiously, stable. It is interesting, however, that they have a noticeable northward dispersal in the post-breeding period.

They have a large year-round presence in South America, and are found along coasts in North America.

A Merlin put up all the shorebirds and then tussled with a female Northern Harrier in the evening at the Creeks July 22.

An early Pied-billed Grebe was of interest at the lagoon at Great Point July 23. We usually expect them at the end of August.

A flock of 14 Greater Yellowlegs was also notable. Two Ruddy Ducks – a pair – continued in Long Pond. Apparently, they just decided not to migrate at all. A Great Blue Heron continued in Madaket.

Twenty-two American Oystercatchers were counted at Eel Point July 24, along with five Ruddy Turnstones and a Spotted Sandpiper. Eighteen Willet congregated on the harbor flats.

An early White-winged Scoter was a surprise in Madaket July 25. They will be common in October, remaining all winter.

Twenty-five Willet and 35 Sanderlings were counted at Esther’s Island Friday.

A pair of Belted Kingfishers were of interest at the Creeks Saturday, and 14 Laughing Gulls were notable at Sesachacha Pond Sunday.

What’s next? Crazy fishing year rolls on

By Cam Gammill

Contributing Writer

This continues to be the craziest year of fishing I can remember. We just aren’t following any of the historic patterns and continue to guess what is coming next.

Right now, we have so much small bait it is incredible, while still having mackerel and squiddos throughout our fishery. Last week I let you know about the explosion of sand eels in our fishery. I also mentioned how bonito love sand eels and we should get ready for this fishery to heat up.

Heating up might be the understatement of the year because our bonito fishery is on fire. It’s at a level that I have not seen in years. These fish seem to be surrounding the island and are crashing bait on the surface, so it’s never a surprise where they are.

I had a tide with a friend last week where we caught more than 30 bonito in just two hours. Even more impressive was a group of guys who caught 17 from the beach at Great Point. We’ve seen the fish in the harbor, on the Bonito Bar, out west, on the south side of the island, in the southeastern rips and at Great Point. So yes, they are surrounding the island. The first push of fish was quite small, but the current fish seem to be a class bigger. These fish are active and eating. They are not too picky, but use a small metal or a small swimming plug for your most action.

Here is where we are seeing the bigger bait. Mostly squiddos, but we also have butterfish and some mackerel.

in actuality there are prizes for all fish being caught, so there is no reason for everyone not to enter, especially when all of the proceeds go to an incredible cause.

Check it out at augustbluesnantucket.com. Selfishly, I love any excuse to get more people on the water.

Perhaps the biggest surprise in my eyes last week has been the activation of striped bass. When the wind turned north this week, it felt like our water temperatures cooled instantly and the bass became extremely activated.

We had full blitzes in Madaket last week on the surface and caught fish up to 35 inches. It’s August, this is not what should be happening.

The most common spots to find these fish are in Madaket on the Bonito Bar or at Great Point. Madaket has historically been an east (or an incoming tide) fishery. These fish have been there on both tides, but that may change.

My favorite way to target these fish though, has been to keep my eyes open for actively feeding birds. In fact, this is my favorite way to fish in general. When you see birds diving on the water, they are on bait and hopefully fish are on that bait as well. Look for slashes in the water and you’ll be rewarded with bonito.

We are still light on bluefish, but we had another push of fish in the last week. Mostly, we are seeing more and bigger fish on the east side of the island.

We also have some bluefish mixed in, in all of the edges, but not the historic numbers we are used to and the south shore has been very slow. That has historically been a world-class fishery.

Speaking of bluefish and since we are now in August, the August Blues tournament is so much fun. It was a new tournament last year and the response was phenomenal. It was so great to see incredible participation.

And why shouldn’t there be?

The goal of the tournament is simply camaraderie while catching a species of fish that has become synonymous with Nantucket in August.

While the focus of the tournament is on catching bluefish,

These fish are sprinkled around the island and the eastern rips have been activated again. I’m not sure this will last, but if you are usually only here for a few weeks in early August, go enjoy this anomaly. These fish are also off the beaches, so everyone should be able to enjoy them.

This has been a fun but unpredictable year. That is what I love. Go enjoy it, wet a line and catch something new.

Cam Gammill is co-owner of Bill Fisher Tackle.

Photo by Trish Pastuszak

An adult Little Blue Heron like this one was a treat for birders at the Creeks Preserve Saturday.

Courtesy of Cam Gammill

Capt. Cam and his daughter Mo with a bonito on the west end. Fish Finder

PMC: Charity bike ride across state scheduled for Saturday

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Hobby said he has completed just about every different route the PMC offers, and this year he will be making the 77mile ride from Mass Maritime Academy in Bourne to Provincetown Sunday, Aug. 4. No matter which route you take, Hobby said, riders are always greeted by people cheering them on and offering water bottles.

“It’s an amazing weekend because you’re just surrounded by positive energy, he said. “You’re surrounded by people that are volunteering, people that are riding their bikes, people that are cheering on the sidelines. There’s not a grumpy, grouchy, bad-vibe person in the mix, because it just wouldn’t make any sense.”

Other Nantucketers registered to participate in this year’s Pan-Mass Challenge include Paula McQuaid, Lauren McShay, Ellie Olsen, Zach Place, Douglas Sheare, Blaise

Sheppard, Jamie Strang and David Troast.

“One of the true blessings of being on Nantucket is that we have this amazing bike path system and you can ride your bike as long as you’re paying attention to driveways and stuff without worrying about being run over by a distracted driver,” Hobby said.

“We didn’t have people texting as much 20-something years ago. The only downside to training on Nantucket is you’re not really ready for the hills. There aren’t a lot of hills on the island, so I have to go off-island to do a couple of weekends with some friends and do some hills, or just not be prepared for this hills, which is the case this year.”

For more information or to donate, visit www.pmc.org. To support Hobby’s fundraising campaign directly, use rider code RH0058.

ALZ: Alzheimer’s fundraiser returns next week

mer’s down the road.

“Right now, the science will not allow us to regrow brain matter. Once it atrophies, it’s gone, so it’s important to stop it in its tracks at whatever level it is. The markers in the blood that you can test for are exciting,” Mleczko said.

Mleczko’s mother Bambi, an active member of the island community who owned a clothing and jewelry store on Main Street, was diagnosed about a decade after her mother Priscilla “Wink” Gifford died following her own battle with the disease.

Bambi now lives off-island at Adelaide of Newton Centre, an assisted-living facility specializing in care for patients suffering from memory-related conditions.

“She’s in great hands, but it’s difficult. She doesn’t remember us. I mean there are moments, back to having optimism and hope, I have to believe that there are moments of clarity where her eyebrows go up and she maybe recognizes us,” Mleczko said.

“But she lost her ability to speak several years ago, so it’s really hard to gauge where she

is and what’s going on. Physically she’s been of good health, which is great, but it’s sort of a steady state for her until she sort of takes a big fall off of the cliff, if you will.

“I think that her not knowing us when we visit or not knowing my dad is heartbreaking, especially so with my children. My youngest who’s 12 doesn’t remember the vibrant grandmother she was. My oldest children have to work hard to remember the way she was, but they still do have some memories of that.”

Bambi, along with her parents Clarence and Priscilla Gifford and siblings Dun, Jock and Chad were among the 1,700 people on the ocean liner Andrea Doria when it sank after colliding with the MS Stockholm in fog off the coast of Nantucket in 1956. The event is just one of many in Bambi’s life that AJ said she wishes she could discuss with her now.

“It’s a horrible process to watch somebody you love so dearly just go into this hole of no memories. In some ways you think about who are we, what are our personalities if we don’t have memories?” Mleczko said.

“There’s so many things I wish that I had asked her

about before she succumbed to Alzheimer’s, so many stories I want to hear the details on. There are so many things I want to ask her now, advice in my life, so it’s really hard.

“On the flip side, I know plenty of people my age that have lost their parents completely, so I know I can still go in and see her and give her a hug and at least be in her presence.”

Ice Out ALZ will be held at the home of Triple Eight Distillery and falls on Aug. 8 on the calendar this year. There will be a toast at 8 p.m.

The event will once again include food, drinks, a cornhole tournament and a call to action to raise money to support the Alzheimer’s Association.

Mleczko, who won gold with the United States women’s hockey team at the 1998 Winter Olympics and silver in 2002, will be joined by family and friends from the hockey community including former NHL players Hal Gill and Andrew Raycroft and ESPN broadcaster John Buccigross, who have attended in previous years.

Mleczko’s bad luck bringing out current Bruins players continues once again, as this

THE NANTUCKET INTERFAITH COMMUNITY WITH IMAM ABDULLAH ANTEPLI OF DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESENTS

In partnership with the Nantucket Interfaith Council, Congregation Shirat HaYam, the Nantucket Muslim Community, and Nantucket Communities of Color SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

All are welcomed to attend any/all events. Advance registration is requested through tinyurl.com/interfaithnantucket

*Wednesday, July 31 at 7:30 pm via Zoom: Confronting Hate and Uplifting Humanity:

A Moral Call for Action

Introductory lecture with Imam Abdullah Antepli in advance of the in person programing.

Saturday, Aug. 10 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am: Strategies to Combat Antisemitism

Hosted by Congregation Shirat HaYam

Great Hall: The Atheneum, 1 India St.

Saturday, Aug. 10 from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm :

Strategies to Combat Racism

Hosted by the Nantucket Communities of Color African Meeting House, 27 York St.

Sunday, Aug. 11 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am: Strategies to Combat Islamophobia

Hosted by the Muslim Community

Greater Light Museum Building, 8 Howard St.

Sunday, Aug. 11 from 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm: Can We Come Together as a Community to Combat Hate of All Kinds?

Hosted by Clergy of the Interfaith Council

Summer Street Church, 1 Summer St. Imam Abdullah Antepli

year’s event overlaps with David Pastrnak’s wedding. NHL players have just a handful of weeks outside of the season and training camp to schedule their nuptials, and Ice Out ALZ conflicted with Charlie McAvoy’s wedding last year and Tuukka Rask’s in 2022.

“It’s awesome to get those guys because I know people enjoy meeting them, but we have a great crowd there. To me it almost doesn’t matter. If we get some hockey players, great, and if not, we still have a lot of fun people,” Mleczko said.

To purchase tickets to the event or make a donation, visit iceoutalz.givesmart.com

If

and Sunday

“There’s something about really working hard on a bicycle, knowing that you’re suffering. It’s hard, but you’re raising money for people that are suffering far worse than you are, and it’s a great honor to be able to ride your bicycle, to be outside, to do those things, to have that life.”

- Roger Hobby

23-time Pan-Mass Challenge cyclist

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

The Trial Court

Probate and Family Court Department

Nantucket Division Docket No. NA24P0037EA

In the Estate of KARIN L. BAERE

Date of Death December 15, 2023

CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION

To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Geoffrey Baere of Nyack NY requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that: Geoffrey Baere of Nyack NY be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before: 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 08/15/2024. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an affidavit of objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.

UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM

PROBATE CODE (MUPC)

A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including the distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

WITNESS, HON. DENISE L MEAGHER, First Justice of this Court, July 18, 2024.

Sarah E Maxwell R02 Register of Probate Court

in blues and bass, bonito and false albacore…

Captain Cam Gammill has always had a passion for the water. He started fishing ponds and rivers before he came to Nantucket.  He started charter fishing on the island 25 years ago and earned his captain’s license 20 years ago. Cam has worked on charter boats downtown and guided trips out of the west end of Nantucket for the past 20 years.

In addition to fishing, Cam and a couple of partners purchased Bill Fisher Tackle in 2005, with the intention of keeping the tradition alive. The relationships formed around the fishing world have been the most special part about the experience.

Courtesy of Roger Hobby Island resident Roger Hobby is taking part in his 23rd PanMass Challenge ride Sunday.

Horoscope: As the Worlds Turn

Thursday, August 1

Strap on your safety belts, because August’s planets promise a wild ride. The new moon Aug. 4 heralds a Mercury retrograde cycle, making all major decisions and purchases off-limits. Instead, plan a vacation or take a sabbatical to focus on and develop/heal your inner personal life. Today the Cancer moon continues active travel, highlighting home and family. A 90-degree alignment of Venus to Uranus, however, takes center stage, generating a restless, careless mood. Steer clear of relationship dramas. Think before you act.

Friday, August 2

The Venus/Uranus alignment continues to dominate this morning, warning you to be more sensitive, tolerant and forgiving. Others may be moody, argumentative or depressed. Fortunately, this alignment culminates at 9:27 a.m., and the plus side of the Cancer moon takes over as the day goes on. Productivity

potential runs high. A harmonious interaction of the Cancer moon to Uranus and Neptune sets the stage for a pleasant family gathering this evening.

Saturday, August 3

Gear up for a hectic morning. At 6:31 a.m., the Cancer moon becomes inactive. The final windup to this month’s new moon begins at 7:10 a.m. when the moon enters Leo. A lunar polarity to Pluto at 8:19 a.m., however, can trigger emotional explosions. Keep it light and don’t act any more than you have to. Find time for yourself today for quiet reflection or meditation. Let go of past hurts, failures, relationships and beliefs that have lost their relevance. Strive for greater spiritual vision.

Sunday, August 4

At 7:13 a.m., this month’s new moon culminates when the sun and moon conjoin at 12.5 degrees of Leo. The moon continues active travel in Leo, encouraging you to kick back and enjoy the day. New moons

are ideal times for new beginnings. Because Mercury travels in retrograde motion, this month brings a time for beginning new programs to enhance your personal and spiritual life, rather than focusing on external or professional efforts.

Monday, August 5

The planet Mercury, now standing at 4 degrees of Virgo, begins retrograde travel from 12:56 a.m. until Aug. 28. In this time period, all major purchases, decisions and signings are off-limits. In addition, a lunar alignment to Uranus can make for a rough start to this day. Slow down. Allow extra time to get where you are going. Unexpected delays, breakdowns or obstacles are likely. This alignment culminates at 11:16 a.m., and the Leo moon becomes inactive until 5:17 p.m. when it enters Virgo.

Tuesday, August 6

Because the sign Virgo is ruled by the retrograde planet Mercury, be prepared for unexpected challenges or set-

backs today. All major decisions, negotiations and signings are off-limits. Instead, go on a cleanup campaign. Get rid of the clutter. Sell or recycle items that are gathering dust. Get your life in order. A harsh lunar alignment to Mars at 4:15 p.m. encourages you to lighten up. Avoid the temptation to get caught up in selfpity, resentments or worries. Meditate for inner peace.

Wednesday, August 7

Yesterday’s advice remains in effect because the moon continues active travel in Virgo. Harmonious alignments of the sun/Jupiter and retrograde Mercury to Venus, however, support a lighter mood and urge you to maintain a busy schedule. Influences are prime for handling projects that require renovation, remodeling or repair. On a personal level, now is the time to begin new self-improvement strategies, diets and physical fitness. Take better care of yourself.

Word Search Answers on Page 7B

TOWN OF NANTUCKET Department of Public Works (DPW) Maintenance Technician

The Department of Public Works (DPW) of the Town of Nantucket seeks qualified candidates for the two open Maintenance Technician positions, one in Central Fleet and one in Operations.

The successful applicant should have the ability to perform a wide range of skilled work. Operates a variety of light and heavy motor equipment, including but not limited to: dump trucks, sanders, snow plows, bulldozer, compactor, frontend loader, and backhoe. Services and maintains trucks and equipment. Operates and maintains a variety of power and hand tools including but not limited to a jackhammer, chipper, and chainsaw.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Must have a High School diploma or equivalent, and up to three (3) years of experience in grounds and roadway maintenance; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Class D Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Operator’s license at time of hire. Hoisting License (2A, 4E or 4G per 520 CMR 6.10) and CDL Class B with tanker endorsement required within two (2) years of date of hire. This is a 40 hour per week AFSCME M-4 Union position. Starting hourly rate $34.68.

The Town of Nantucket offers a retirement pension through Barnstable County Retirement, 90% employer-sponsored health insurance plan options, and a diverse selection of supplemental insurance policies.

Application deadline: August 4, 2024, at 4pm.

The Town of Nantucket (www.nantucket-ma.gov) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, a D.E.I. community, and encourages women, minorities, and veterans to apply.

Visit https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/nantucket/ to apply online.

If you have any questions, reach out

Tony Sarg, Nantucket and a Sea Monster

The Nantucket Historical Association

Tony Sarg is possibly most well-known for his invention of the giant balloons used in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but his work in puppetry and illustration also had a major impact on 20th century American culture. He was always looking for new ways to express himself and make his work engaging for an audience of children “from 6 to 60.”

In New York City, Sarg built his reputation as a commercial artist and designer full of wit and whimsy. He also began performing with his own marionette company in 1917 and soon established Tony Sarg’s

Marionettes, a national traveling troupe that popularized the art form through annual performances in theaters, schools and civic spaces across the country until 1939.

During this time, Sarg’s reputation rose as the artist responsible for reviving the marionette theater in America. As his company toured, he taught classes and wrote instructional publications to inspire others and worked with manufacturers to produce commercial lines of puppets and theaters branded with his name.

In the 1920s Sarg started working with Macy’s Department Store in New York for its extravagant Christmas marketing efforts.

He designed animated store

windows, “Toyland” displays, parade floats and eventually, balloons. The first holiday parade hosted by Macy’s took place in 1924.

Three years later, Sarg contributed his first giant balloons to the parade line-up. That year, the balloons were a kind of hybrid between puppet and balloon, filled with air instead of helium and held up on poles. They were very heavy and hard for onlookers to see. It wasn’t until 1928 that the colossal, helium-filled balloons that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade still floats every year were included in the parade.

Sarg and his family began summering on Nantucket in 1920. Sarg sketched and painted across the island and

accepted a few local decorating commissions.

He also employed his considerable artistic talents to benefit island charities and before long, the island’s landmarks, history and folklore found their way into Sarg’s children’s books and wider commercial work.

When his wife, Bert Sarg, opened a seasonal gift shop in town, Sarg developed island-specific products to sell in it, including decorated boxes, maps, books, prints, textiles and toys.

This led to the creation of a series of Tony Sarg shops, with locations in Nantucket and Marblehead, New York City and New Hope, Pa.

A prankster at heart, Sarg staged an ultimate hoax in 1937 when the green sea mon-

ster balloon that he created for the 1936 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade made its way to Nantucket’s South Beach.

For nearly a month, he made and photographed big threetoed footprints on the beach and staged mysterious sightings of the monster in the harbor. He even collaborated with The Inquirer and Mirror to include articles about the sightings of this sea monster.

On Aug. 19, 1937, everything was revealed. The footprints were planted by Sarg’s daughter Mary and other accomplices, and the spectacular inflatable “sea monster” was an elaborate publicity stunt designed by Tony Sarg to bring attention to Nantucket and the Tony Sarg Shop, the artist’s is-

land store. Children and adults alike frolicked on the beach, thrilled by the silliness and magic of Sarg’s creation. Shortly after, Tony Sarg’s Nantucket sea monster was painted red for its reappearance in the 1937 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, where it floated down the concrete canals of Broadway as gracefully as a sea monster might swim through the waters of a little island 30 miles at sea. Join the Nantucket Historical Association Monday, Aug. 5 to meet the modern-day recreation of Morton the Sea Monster balloon during his visit to Children’s Beach for Sarg Community Day, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., free and family-friendly. Learn more at NHA.org.

Tour: Garden Club event showcases historic Pleasant street homes Wednesday

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rough oval bracketed at one end by the Hadwen House at the corner of Main and Pleasant streets and at the other by the Garden by the Sea, the Nantucket Land Bank’s public garden at 14 and 16 Candle House Lane.

Like most of the gardens on the tour, the Land Bank garden was designed by a local landscaper and designer. Once the private home of the late Jane Stroup, librarian at the Maria Mitchell Association, and the late Joan Manley, horticulturist and landscape gardener for Sherburne Associates, today’s garden was formerly a heath and heather nursery that Stroup and Manley created after they retired.

The gardens have since been reimagined and repurposed to showcase lush fruit trees, native perennials and pollinator plants. Situated across from the Eleanor Ham Pony Field, this garden provides a peaceful respite yearround off the beaten path.

Four properties on the tour are clustered on Pleasant Street, one of which once belonged to my late husband’s family in the 1950s. They would be very pleased to see it now.

The once simple back yard has been transformed into a quiet, contemplative split-level patio and garden space with several water features.

A dwarf Japanese maple hangs over a bubbling waterfall among begonias, ferns, hellebores and Japanese holly while in the corner a large stone basin surrounded by hydrangeas is filled with water plants. Hinoki cypress, birch, a miniature rhododendron and pots of herbs fill out the scene.

Across the street, a garden that was on the tour some years ago has been updated and enhanced to include sustainable, low-impact practices, including replacing half the sod lawn with microclover this spring.

Tour-goers will see how lush and pleasant microclover can be. Hopefully they will be in-

spired to do the same. Meanwhile, the owner has widened the white-themed flower beds where you can see a native and pollinator palette of mountain mint, polygonum, hollyhock, lilies, astilbe, brunella, fig trees and espaliered fruit trees hanging with ripening fruit.

Up a few stone steps through a low stone wall sits a terraced lawn shaded by mature trees, complete with wooden swing and garden shed. This garden is always a treat and such a pleasure to see this time of year.

A few houses away on the tour is another beautiful backyard garden, accessed by a narrow flagstone path through lush cypress, rhododendron and hosta. The yard is framed by a covered porch surrounded by dozens of healthy roses of all kinds that are at their peak bloom in late June.

Not to worry. There are other marvelous flowers mixed into a lush border of shrubs, trees and the iconic, ever beautiful Nantucket hydrangea.

Cypress, hellebores, boxwood and an ivy-covered fence provide privacy and a sound barrier in this bustling neighborhood, while a large pinwheel sculpture provides a bit of whimsy. Through a side gate, tour-goers can access the adjacent garden which belongs to the children of our pinwheel gardeners. Originally created by the same local designer and now tended by the same gardener as the parents’ garden, this back yard celebrates the sun, with big beds full of lavender, white, pink, yellow and blue flowers like Russian sage, sedum, kniphofia, shasta daisies, purple cone flower, allium and lilies.

On the outdoor coffee table sits a wonderful planter stuffed with succulents, reflecting a new design approach to container gardens that we are seeing in window boxes and planters across the island.

Two additional properties on the tour are around the block. The first is a sumptuous gar-

Flynn: Brings reworked show to White Heron Theatre

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From that point on, the narrative follows his choices of fatherhood, divorce, balancing family and career and figuring out priorities. Flynn hopes the audience will be able to relate his story to their own lives.

people had seen the play was that people draw from their experiences after hearing yours,” he said. “It really touches on the commonality we have with each other and the questions we raise like, how do you raise a child? How do you keep the good and push out the bad?”

al tour might be in his future, but first the show must go on in New York City’s Origin Theatre Festival.

“The LA run went really well, but NYC is a big one. It all matters when you get to New York,” he said.

professional soccer player, who also hosts a soccer podcast, is especially excited about the role, particularly being on screen with the Brazilian soccer great Neymar and the legendary Argentine player Lionel Messi.

den on Mill Street that has been on tours before and can be easily viewed from the street over a low fence. Highlights include healthy antique fruit trees, stewartia and glossy magnolia dotting a broad lawn rimmed by curving flower beds.

The lime green foliage of Japanese aralia provides brilliant contrast to an array of native plants, ferns, boxwood, hydrangeas, catmint, rose mallow, rose of Sharon, abelia, astilbe and daisies.

The sixth private garden sits on New Dollar Lane and includes a charming lawn surrounded by a mature blue atlas cedar, twisting juniper, white hydrangeas and birch with beds of shade-loving sweet woodruff, hosta, meadow rue and pulmonaria at their feet.

A rope swing dangles from a gracious shade tree, French provincial ceramic pots from the owners’ travels are filled with begonias and antique English stones dot the yard. Around the corner, a cutting

garden overflowing with gaura, lavender, coneflower and lady’s mantle dances in the wind. Tour-goers can wrap up their tour in the garden at the Hadwen House where refreshments will be served. Proceeds from the tour fund the Nantucket Garden Club’s many programs including the annual Daffodil and Green Thumb Shows, maintenance of the Hadwen House garden, Saltmarsh Center garden, grant support to Nantucket nonprofits and community organizations, and annual scholarship awards to Nantucket High School graduates.

Tickets for the House Tour may be purchased at any one of the properties on the tour including the Hadwen House and Garden by the Sea. More information can be found at the Nantucket Garden Club’s website, nantucketgardenclub.org. This is one house tour not to be missed. Send questions or comments to LucyLeske35@gmail.com.

PUBLIC HEARING

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“As you’re writing it, sometimes you think, who cares? Is it egotistical to write about yourself? But what I realized after

“Fear of Heights,” the 90-minute version, premiered at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles, and Flynn was satisfied with the reviews. A nation-

In the meantime, he will be playing a sports announcer in the upcoming film “Balls Up” with Mark Wahlberg and Sasha Baron Cohen. The former collegiate All-American and

NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage dated July 18, 2023 given by 12 Atlantic LLC to RD W SPV LLC, said mortgage recorded with the Nantucket County Registry of Deeds in Book 1943 Page 1, and which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 11:00 a.m. on the 26th day of August, 2024 on the premises at 12 Atlantic Avenue, Nantucket, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage.

To wit:

Property Address: 12 Atlantic Avenue, Nantucket, Massachusetts

The land, with the improvements thereon, in the Town and County of Nantucket, Massachusetts, situated at 12 Atlantic Avenue and bounded and described as follows: NORTH by land formerly of Paulina B. Elliott and by land now or formerly of Sarah R. Viera; EAST by land now or formerly of Joseph L. Perry; SOUTH by land nor or formerly of John and Mary Brown, formerly of Mary Cabral; and WEST by Atlantic Avenue.

For title reference, see deed recorded herewith [Book 1942, Page 326].

Premises to be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens and rights of any tenants and parties in possession, if there be any, or existing encumbrances of record which are in force and are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed. The successful bidder will pay all costs of recording the foreclosure deed and any other foreclosure documents including, without limitation, all state and county excise stamp fees, and shall also be responsible for any Title 5 inspection and repair requirements.

Terms of sale: A deposit of Fifty Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($50,000.00) by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by certified or bank check to Baker, Braverman & Barbadoro, P.C., 1200 Crown Colony Drive, Suite 610, Quincy, MA 02169 within thirty (30) days from the date of sale. Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the purchase price. In the event of an error in this publication, the description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control.

Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale.

RD W SPV LLC

Present holder of said mortgage

By its Attorneys, Baker, Braverman & Barbadoro, P.C.

1200 Crown Colony Drive, Suite 610 Quincy, MA 02169

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Kevin Flynn, “Fear of Heights,” 7:30 p.m. Aug. 6-8, 13-15, White Heron Theatre, 5 North Water St., www.whiteheron.org for tickets.

Please be advised that the Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 12, 2024, at 11:00 AM to consider a utility petition from Nantucket Electric Company, for Plan #30892642 to install a new hand hole and approximately 20’ of conduit to provide electrical service to 59 Polpis Road. The hearing will be held via Zoom Webinar. Please see meeting posting for remote participation and viewing links. For further information, please email TownManager@nantucket-ma.gov

PUBLIC NOTICE

A HYBRID PARTICIPATION PUBLIC HEARING of the NANTUCKET PLANNING

BOARD is scheduled for 4:00 PM, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2024, in the PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY at 4 FAIRGROUNDS ROAD and via Zoom Webinar and live streamed on the Nantucket Government TV YouTube Channel. The complete application materials detailing the proposals and the requested waivers are on file with the Planning Board at 2 Fairgrounds Road, Nantucket, MA, and may also be reviewed digitally. Requests to view any related documents digitally can be emailed to wsaad@nantucket-ma.gov. Written comments for the meeting must be received by MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2024, to be provided to the Planning Board in advance of the meeting and may be addressed via email to wsaad@nantucket-ma.gov.

n Richard Joseph Leider and Jane Leider, Trustees of the Richard and Jane Leider Revocable Trust – 64 & 62 Sankaty Road

The Applicants are requesting an approval of a Definitive Subdivision plan pursuant to Chapter 41 of the Massachusetts General Laws (also known as the Subdivision Control Law) for a four lot, (three-buildable lot) subdivision. A complete list of waivers and a detailed proposal is on file with Planning and Land Use Services. The site is shown as Nantucket Tax Assessor’s Map 49 Parcels 80.1 and 80.2, and as Lots 3 and 4, on Plan File 49-S. Evidence of Owner’s Title is in Book 1901 Pages 339 and 341.

n Charles A. Ernst III, Trustee – 166 Cliff Road

The Applicants are requesting a Special Permit pursuant to Section 139-8F of the Nantucket Zoning Bylaw and Chapter 40 of the Massachusetts General Laws (also known as the Zoning Act) to create a Rear Lot Subdivision. The site is shown as Nantucket Tax Assessor’s Map 41 Parcel 69, Lot 25 Land Court Plan No. 9455-L. Evidence of Owner’s Title is shown as Certificate of Title 25353 on file at the Nantucket County District of the Land Court.

n Nantucket Safe Harbor for Animals, Inc. – 1 Evergreen Way

The Applicant is requesting a Major Commercial Development (MCD) Special Permit pursuant to Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Laws (also known as the Zoning Act) and Sections 139-11 and 139-30 of the Nantucket Zoning Bylaw to develop the property by constructing three new commercial structures that would service NiSHA operations. Additionally, the Applicant requests waivers for an exterior lighting plan, exterior sign plan, and inclusionary housing. The file with a copy of the complete description of the proposal is available for review at Planning and Land Use Services. The site is shown as Nantucket Tax Assessor’s Map 68 Parcel 727 and on Land Court Plan 16514-16, Lot 447 (portion of).

Evidence of Owner’s Title is shown as Certificate of Title 29228 on file at the Nantucket County District of the Land Court.

n Great Harbor Tennis and Swim Center - Great Harbor Yach Club, Inc. – 19 & 23 Nobadeer Farm Road

The Applicant is seeking a Modification to a previously granted Major Commercial Development “MCD” Special Permit pursuant to Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Laws (also known as the Zoning Act), Sections 139-11, 139-18, and 139-19 of the Nantucket Zoning Bylaw. The Applicant proposes to combine the lots at 19 and 23 Nobadeer Farm Road to expand the racquet sports facilities and construct a 12’x18’ storage shed, two shade structures, four pickle ball courts, parking lot, and a foot path. The file with a copy of the complete description of the proposal is available for review at Planning and Land Use Services. The site is shown as Nantucket Tax Assessor’s Map 69, Parcels 81 and 83, and as a portion of Lots A & B on Plan File 2013-2 and as Lot 15 on Plan File 55-M.

Evidence of Owner’s Title is shown in Book 1082, Page 335, and Book 1949, Page 29, on file with the Nantucket Registry of Deeds. Q68 DAVID IVERSON, CHAIR

Dining Out

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45 Surfside Bakery, 45 Surfside Rd., (774) 333-3981, Pastries, sandwiches, smoothies and more! Mon-Sat 6:30 am to 2:00 pm • Sundays 7:00 am to 2:00 pm • Order online via: 45Surfside.com • Deliveries: delivery.com

167 Raw, 167 Hummock Pond Rd., (508) 228-2871, Open daily from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm • Food Truck Open from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm • Cisco Brewery Raw Bar Open Saturday, Sunday & Monday • 167raw.com

American Seasons, 80 Centre St., (508) 228-7111, • Dinner: Daily 5:30 pm to close• Bar open until late • americanseasons.com

Bartlett’s Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Rd., (508)228-9403, Market Open: Daily 8:00 am to 7:00 pm • Garden Center Open: Daily 8:00 am to 5:00 pm • Offering coffee and pastries, fresh prepared foods and daily lunch and dinner specials • bartlettsfarm.com

Bla eyed susans Black Eyed-Susan’s, 10 India St., (508) 325-0308, Breakfast walk-in only: Thurs-Tues 7:00 am to 1:00 pm • Closed on Wednesday mornings for breakfast • Accepting dinner reservations up to 2 weeks in advance • 3 dinner seatings available @ 5:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 8:45 pm • Closed on Tuesdays for dinner blackeyedsusansnantucket.com

Boathouse, 2 Sanford Rd., (508) 228-8226, Open: Daily 10:00 am to 9:00 pm • Online orders & deliveries via: delivery.com, delivery app or boathousenantucket.com • touch less payment option • Kiosk available inside • Eat-in, take-out and outdoor seating.

Born & Bread, 35 Centre St., (508) 228-3700, • Offering freshly baked bread, sandwiches, pastries and more • Open: Tue-Sat 8:00 am to 3:00 pm • bornandbreadnantucket.com

Breeze at The Nantucket Hotel, 77 Easton St., (508) 228-4730, A la Carte Breakfast: Daily 7:30 a.m to 10:00 a.m. • Brunch: Sundays 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. • Lunch: MonSat 11:30 am to 2:00 pm • Dinner served on either the Sailor’s Valentine front porch or in Breeze: Tue-Sun 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm • Old Fashioned New England Clambakes: Every Summer Monday (June 17 – August 26) Seatings between 5:30 pm and 7:00 pm • thenantuckethotel.com/dining/

Brant Point Grill at The White Elephant, 50 Easton St., (508) 445-6574, Breakfast: 7 days 8:00 am to 11:00 am • Lunch: Mon-Fri 11:30 am to 2:00 pm • Dinner: 7 days 5:30 pm to 10 pm thenantuckethotel.com/breeze

The Brotherhood, 23 Broad St., (774) 325-5812, Kitchen: 11:30 am to 10:00 pm daily • Bar: 11:30 am to 12:00 midnight daily • Full menu available for take-out at brotherhoodnantucket.com

Casa Real, 16 Macys Lane, (774) 485-2027, Offers breakfast, lunch & dinner • Open: Mon-Fri 11:30 am to 9:00 pm • Sat & Sun 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm • Breakfast: Sat & Sun 8:00 am to 1:00 pm • Bar stays open until 1:00 am • casarealrestaurant.com

The Chanticleer, 9 New St., Siasconset, (508) 257-4499, • Lunch: Daily 11:30 am to 1:30 pm • Dinner: Daily 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm • chanticleernantucket.com

Club Car, 1 Main St., (508) 228-1101, Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner • theclubcar.com

The Corner Table Cafe, 22 Federal St., (508) 228-2655, Open: Daily 7:00 am to 5:00 pm • cornertablenantucket.com

Cook’s Cafe, 6 South Beach St., (508) 228-8810, Open: Daily 8:00 am to 3:00 pm • cookscafenantucket.com

Counter on Main, 45 Main St., (508) 680-1225, • Breakfast, lunch & ice cream: 8:00 am to 8:00 pm daily • Order take-out at nantucketislandkitchen.com

August 1 - August 8, 2024

Crosswinds, 14 Airport Rd., Nantucket Memorial Airport (508) 228-6005, • Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner: 6:00 am to 9:00 pm daily Offering affordable dinner specials 7 nights a week • crosswindsnantucket.com

Downyflake, 18 Sparks Ave., (508) 228-4533, Breakfast: Thurs-Tues 6:30 am to 2:00 pm • Lunch: ThursdayTues 11:00 am to 2:00 pm • Sunday: Breakfast ONLY from 6:30 am to 1:00 pm • Closed on Wednesdays • Take-Out Window is now open! • thedownyflake.com

Dune 20 Broad St., (508) 228-5550, • Dinner: daily 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm • Bar opens at 5:00 pm to late • dunenantucket.com

Faregrounds, 27 Fairgrounds Road, (508) 228-4095, Kitchen Opens: Tue-Sat 11:30 am until 9:00 pm • Sundays: Kitchen closes at 3:30 pm • Bar stays open until last call and on Sundays from 11:30 am to 5:00 pm • Closed: Mondays • Inside, outside dining and take out available • thefaregrounds.com

Fusaro’s, 17 Old South Rd., (508) 228-4100, • Dinner: Mon-Sat 4:30 pm to close • Order take-out at fusarosrestaurant.com

Galley Beach, 54 Jefferson Ave., (508) 228-9641, Open: MonSat 11:30 am to 9:30 pm • Sundays: 10:30 am to 9:30 pm • galleybeach.net

Island Kitchen, 1 Chin’s Way, (508) 228-2639, Breakfast & lunch: 7:00 am to 2:00 pm daily • Dinner: 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm daily • Ice Cream Counter Open: Daily 7:00 am to 10:00 pm • Order take-out at nantucketislandkitchen.com

Millie’s, 326 Madaket Rd., (508) 228-8435, Restaurant open: Daily 8:00 am to 9:30 pm • Market open: Daily 8:00 am to 9:30 pm • milliesnantucket.com

Millie’s at the Rotary, 1 Sparks Ave., (508) 514-5200, Open: Daily 8:00 am to 9:30 pm • milliesnantucket.com Moors End Farm, 40 Polpis Rd., (508) 228-2674, Open: Daily 8:00 am to 6:00 pm • Farm grown produce including: lettuce, arugula, herbs, cucumbers, peppers, carrots, beets, tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, Swiss chard, summer squash cheeses & other grocery items and of course our vast array of cut flowers • moorsendfarm.com

Nantucket Bake Shop, 17 Old South Rd., (508) 228-2797, Open: Mon-Sat 6:30 am to 3:00 pm • Closed: Sundays • nantucketbakeshop.com

Nantucket Lobster Trap 23 Washington St, 508.228.4200 Lunch: Daily 11:00 am to 3:00 pm • Dinner: Daily 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm • Take out available from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm • nantucketlobstertrap.com

Nantucket Tap Room, 29 Broad St., (508) 228-2117, Lunch: Daily from 11:30 am to 3:00 pm • Dinner: Daily from 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm • No food from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm • Bar open all day • nantuckettaproom.com

Noemi’s Dumplings, Authentic Homemade Traditional Dumplings, Available: Tue-Sat 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm • Saturdays: 8:30 am to 12:30 pm @ Farmers Market • View our menu and order online at noemidumplings.com or text (508) 901-3476 or, The Whale 38 Main St., (508) 825-5897, Dinner: Daily from 5:00 pm • Lunch: Mon - Sat 11:30 am to 2:00 pm • Brunch: Sunday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm • otwnantucket.com

The Pearl, 12 Federal St., (508)228-9701, Open: Wed-Sun 5:00 pm to close • Closed: Mondays and Tuesdays • Boarding House extension Open: Thurs-Sun 5:00 pm to close • Closed: Mon-Wed pearlnantucket.com

Pizzeria Gemelle, 2 East Chestnut St., (508) 901-5958, Open: Tues-Sun 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm • pizzeriagemelle.com

The Proprietors, 9 India St., (508) 228-7477, • Dinner: ThursTues from 5:00 pm • Closed: Wednesdays • proprietorsnantucket.com

Salvadoreña Food & Market, 63 Old South Rd., (508) 3324770, Offers breakfast, lunch & dinner • Open: Mon-Fri 6:30 am to 8:00 pm • Saturdays from 6:30 am to 7:00 pm • Sundays from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm • Call ahead to order take out • facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063594129278

Sandbar at Jetties Beach, 4 Bathing Beach Rd., (508) 228-2279, Open: daily from 11:30 am to 8:00 pm • Hours are weather dependent • jettiessandbar.com

Sea Grille 45 Sparks Ave., (508) 325-5700, Dinner: Daily 5:00 pm to close • Take out starts at 5:00 pm • theseagrille.com

Ships Inn An American Brasserie Ships Inn 13 Fair St., (508) 228-0040, • Dinner: WedSun 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm • Closed: Monday and Tuesday • shipsinnnantucket.com

Siam to Go, Nantucket Ice Rink, 1 Backus Ln., (508) 228-siam (7426), • Lunch: Mon-Fri 11:00 am to 2:00 pm Dinner: Mon-Fri 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm • Order take-out at SiamToGoNantucket.com

Sister Ship at the Faraway Hotel, 29 Centre St., (508) 203-6889, • Dinner: 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm daily • Courtyard open: Thurs-Sun 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm farawayhotels.com

Something Natural, 50 Cliff Rd., (508) 228-0504 , Open daily from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm • Bread (including Pink Salt sourdough), cookies, cookie dough, SN drinks, homemade soups, and dough balls delivered daily to island markets • somethingnatural.com

Straight Wharf, 6 Harbor Square, (508) 228-4499, Dining room: Daily 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm • Bar grill dining: Daily 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm • Bar: Daily until 1:00 am or “The Summer Wind,” whichever comes first • straightwharfrestaurant.com

The Summer House, 17 Ocean Ave., Siasconset, (508) 257-9976, Dinner: 5:00 pm to close • Last dinner seating at 10:00 pm • Bistro Lunch: 11:00 am to 8:00 pm • Last Bistro lunch seating at 7:00 pm • Sunday Brunch 11:30 am to 3:00 pm thesummerhouse.com

Surfside Taco Stand, 2 Broad St., (508) 960-7070, Open: Daily 8:30 am to 2:00 am • surfsidenantucket.com

Topper’s, at The Wauwinet, 120 Wauwinet Rd. (508) 228-8768, Breakfast : 7 days 8:00 am to 10:30 am •Lunch Daily 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm • Dinner: Daily 6:00 pm to close • Deck menu: Daily 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm • Brunch: Sat & Sun 11:30 am to 2:00 pm • wauwinet.com/dining

Ventuno, 21 Federal St., (508) 228-4242, • Dinner: Tues-Sun 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm • Closed: Mondays • ventunorestaurant.com

Via Mare, 17 Broad St., (508) 228-6100, Dinner: Tue-Sat 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm • viamarenantucket.com

Wicked Island Bakery, 7 Bayberry Ct., (508) 901-5797, • Open: Mon-Fri 6:00 am to 12:00 pm • Sat & Sun 7:00 am to noon • wickedislandbakery.com

Yummy, 63 Surfside Rd., (508) 228-2712, Open: Mon-Sat 7:00 am to 8:30 pm • Sundays from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm • yummynantucket.com

Want your restaurant listed in our Dining Out Guide? Contact Alexandro Sforza at 508.228.0001 ext. 38 or asforza@inkym.com • Deadline, Tuesday by 10:00 am

THE ART OF LIVING

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Beds: 6,

TOWN | $4,495,000

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Baths: 6

Gary Winn, Morgan Winn, Susan Lazarus

Baths: 4f/1h

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CLIFF

Beds: 6, Baths: 6f/3h

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BRANT POINT

Baths: 5f/1h

Gary Winn

SURFSIDE

Baths:

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TOWN

Beds: 5, Baths: 5f/1h

Gary Winn, Morgan Winn, Susan Lazarus

BRANT POINT

Beds: 5, Baths: 5f/1h

Gary Winn, Morgan Winn, Susan Lazarus

MADAKET

Beds: 4, Baths: 2

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CISCO

Beds: 5, Baths: 5f/1h

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CISCO

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MONOMOY

$4,495,000 Beds: 6, Baths: 5f/1h

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TOM NEVERS | $2,595,000 Beds: 3, Baths: 2 Gary Winn

10 | 8 full, 2 half

$4,850,000 | Penny Dey

SHIP SHAPE

5 | 5.5

$7,250,000 | Meg Ruley 4 | 4.5

$3,200,000 | Penny Dey

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Angel Conrad Frazier

Mary D. Malavase, GRI, ABR, SRS, RSPS

Jane B. Miller, ABR, RSPS

VACANT LAND

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5 ROSEBUD LANE

Centrally located, this Residential Commercial lot allows 50% ground coverage with town water and town sewer available. Great for a small business, shop, duplex or single family home.

$850,000 | Peter DuPont

Meg Ruley, ABR, RSPS

Lisa Sherburne, ABR, RSPS

Melinda Vallett Geri Walker, RSPS, SFR

Mary O’Donnell, Office Manager

Erikka Perkins, Rental Manager

Yesenia Valer, Office Assistant

Penny Dey, Principal Broker, GRI, ABRM

Linda Bellevue, GRI, CBR

Heidi Drew, ABR, RSPS, SRS

Peter DuPont

Alison

Forsgren, e-Pro, NAR Green, SRES

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Property Transfers

The following property transfers were recorded in the Registry of Deeds from July 19-July 25, 2024:

Davkim Smiley LLC to DXD SS Fund II Nantucket Propco LLC: 10 and 12 Davkim Lane, vacant land, 1.22 acres, $9,500,000.

Karpowicz Family Revocable Trust to Scott W. Briggs Revocable Trust: 49A Madaket Road, dwelling, .49 acres, $4,137,500.

Nancy Thornton, trustee, SE Cacher Trust, to CBR ACK Holdings LLC: 6 West Dover St., dwelling, .14 acres, $2,130,000.

Capital Property Investments LLC to Kristy Bentley: 49 Red Barn Road, dwelling (2 percent), 3.79

acres, $1,440,900.

Christopher O’Neill, trustee, 2008 O’Neill Family Revocable Trust, to Laura McCalla-Anderson: 19 Arkansas Ave., Interval 12F, timeshare, $22,000.

The following transactions were exempt from the Land Bank transfer fee:

James Allen Egan Trust to James Allen Egan: 15 Pine Crest Drive, $1.

Eleanor Weller Reade to Lucy Pearl LLC: 41 India St., $0.

Adele Hobby to Adele C. Hobby Family Trust: 31 Bartlett Road, $0.

Adam Glick and Denise Scruton to Zoe Glick, trustee, 31 Eel Point Road Nominee Trust: 31 Eel Point Road, $0.

Land Bank revenue for July 19-July 25, 2024 was $344,608. Year to date revenue is $10,817,695.

Land Bank income is derived primarily from the collection of a 2 percent transfer fee on real estate transactions, subject to certain exemptions.

Unique Pocomo Retreat

FEATURES • Two Bedrooms • One Bathroom • Water Views • Newly Renovated • Outdoor Shower

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This circular-style home provides buyers with a rare opportunity to view the water from nearly every corner of the property, both inside and out. The large lot also offers year-round peace and serenity.

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Built in 1970, the home was completely renovated this year and includes new oak floors, kitchen cabinets, countertops, high-end appliances, light fixtures, a tile shower and floor, bath vanity, built-ins and shiplap ceilings throughout, new windows and doors, new sidewall and a new roof.

The interior of the home has an open concept layout, with the living, dining and kitchen spaces connected.

A wall of windows provides a panoramic, 180-degree view of the harbor, Coatue and Great Point lighthouse in the distance.

The completely updated galley-style kitchen has high-end appliances including a Sub-Zero refrigerator, GE Profile induction cooktop, Bosch

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This home has thoughtfully designed built-in cabinetry throughout, including a pop-up lift TV console that currently holds a 55-inch TV that rises from and rests inside the built-ins.

The primary bedroom has a king-sized bed with custom closets and pullout shelving below, in addition to a private work space and desk.

A second bedroom has bunk beds with Jack and Jill access to a full bathroom that is shared with the master bedroom. The bathroom has a custom vanity with Waterworks fixtures, Thassos floor and shower tile, a Toto toilet and a glass shower door.

The exterior of the home has a beautiful dining table, ideal for al fresco dining, as well as a custom-made outdoor shower. This home also comes with an alarm system and central air conditioning.

The neighboring property at 7 Lauretta Lane is also available to buyers who may be interested in creating a larger, more complete waterfront compound.

Courtesy of Jordan Real Estate

The kitchen of this completely-renovated home includes plenty of storage and high-end appliances by Wolf, Sub-Zero, Bosch and GE.

The dining area of the home looks out over the pristine waters of Nantucket Harbor.

The home’s two bedrooms, including this bunk room, top, share a bathroom with new fixtures.

The living room of this circular home has panoramic views of Nantucket Harbor and a vaulted ceiling.

This custom-built wooden table and deck are the perfect place to entertain during Nantucket’s idyllic summers.

An aerial view of the home and its unspoiled stretch of shoreline with views of Coatue.

How to Help Your Neighbor

Food Assistance & the Food Pantry

The Food Pantry provides supplemental groceries and food staples to no and low income individuals and families. The Pantry, located in the Greenhound Building at 10 Washington Street and is open year-round.

The Pantry is currently open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 3-6 p.m. There is also home delivery available for clients not able to leave their homes due to illness or injury.

Rental Assistance

The Rental Assistance Program provides lower income island residents with a short term rental subsidy to keep them housed during periods of financial need including help with rent to move them out of substandard housing, loss of housing due to the sudden sale of the property, to avoid eviction depending upon the circumstances.

Applicants must be year-round Nantucket residents having lived here a minimum of 2 years, unless special circumstances warrant an exception.

Shelter Assistance for the Homeless

The Warming Place Program, now under the operations of the NFFRA provides both a day

Volunteering:

We have volunteer opportunities mainly at the Food Pantry, and Warming Place. If you are interested please go to www.assistnantucket.org/volunteer and fill out the form.

Donations:

Donations can be made online

www.assistnantucket.org or to mail a check please use Post Office Box 2597, Nantucket, MA 02584

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and overnight shelter for the homeless adults of Nantucket. For more information contact ackhomelessnessteam@gmail.com

Fuel/Utility Assistance

The Fuel/Utility Assistance program assists residents, both renters and homeowners, to apply for benefits under the Federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program or the Salvation Army Home Energy Program for heat.

For those residents not qualifying for these benefits, and for those requiring assistance with other utility assistance (electric, water) we will assist with a minimum payment to prevent shut-off until a more permanent financial arrangement with the vendor can be made.

Medical Travel

The Medical Travel Assistance program assists low-middle income Nantucket residents who have to travel off-island for medical appointments and treatments that they would not otherwise be able to afford to go to.

To apply for Medical Travel and Related Services Assistance go to www.assistnantucket.org or email Janis Carreiro at nffra@assistnantucket.org

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2597, Nantucket, MA 02584 Website: assistnantucket.org

Janis Carreiro, Executive Director Email: nffra@assistnantucket.org Phone No: (508) 901-1320

Thomas M. Dixon, Assistant Executive Director

Email: tom@assistnantucket.org Phone: (508) 680-3942

Ruth Pitts, Food Pantry Manager

Email: food@assistnantucket.org

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Jamie Dickinson, Administrative/Development Assistant Email: adminassistant@assistnantucket.org

Phone No: (508) 680-3559

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This Week on Nantucket

August 1 - August 8

Published by

Inquirer and Mirror

– In This Issue –

• Island Calendar

• Delicious: The SeaGrille

• MusACK: Cranberry Alarm Clock

• Walk with Neil: Smooth Hummocks

Thursday, Aug. 1

Women’s Walking Network

Aug. 1-8 Calendar Highlights

7:30 a.m. Thursdays. E-mail for this week’s location. Open to all. Trails are chosen to fit the needs and abilities of the group. Intended for marginalized genders including women, women-identifying individuals and non-binary and gender non-conforming people who are comfortable in a space that centers on the experiences of women. E-mail meg@ snowandblair.com to sign up.

NanPuppets

9:45 a.m. Atheneum garden, 1 India St. Join Lizza Obremski and her puppet friends for a half-hour of fun. Bring a blanket. Canceled in the event of inclement weather.

Trunk Show: Oscar Heyman

James Robinson Inc., 2 South Beach St. A trunk show featuring antique and fine jewelry by Oscar Heyman and other jewelers. Through Aug. 3. Visit jrobinson.com to preview selections.

Historic Downtown Walking Tour

10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. Walk through historic downtown Nantucket with a museum guide and discover the unique history of the island. The tour transports visitors on a journey through Nantucket’s past and tells the story of the rise and fall of the whaling industry, the rise of tourism and the impacts the island’s economy had on social and racial development on Nantucket.

Author Afternoon: Steve Sheppard

1 p.m. Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, 158 Polpis Road. Island author Steve Sheppard will discuss his book “Tourist Town.” Refreshments. Tickets at eganmaritime.org/events

Maria Mitchell Association Birthday Celebration

1-4 p.m. Maria Mitchell Association, 33 Washington St. Celebrate Maria Mitchell’s 206th birthday with astronomy and natural-science activities, live animal displays, research demonstrations, refreshments and live music. Free.

THURSDAY, PAGE 16

CHILDREN’S BEACH, SUMMER 2024

Yoga on the Bandstand

Monday – Saturdays, 7:30-8:30am thru September 2

Barre Classes with Rachel Benson Sundays, 8:00am & 9:00am thru September 1

Nanpuppets with Lizza

Saturdays, 10:00 am thru August 17

Sunday Night Concerts @ 6:00 pm

August 4 - Bad Dads Band

August 11 - The Dunbars

August 18 - La Tulipe

August 21 - NCMC Jazz Band (Wednesday)

August 25 - Rebecca Chapa

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Singer-songwriter and surfer Donovan Frankenreiter will perform at The Chicken Box Sunday, Aug. 4. See listing, page 21, for details.

Old favorites, new classics at tried and true SeaGrille

By Marianne R. Stanton mrstanton1215@gmail.com

When they opened the place 30 years ago, EJ Harvey and his late wife Robin understood what people who live on an island or are visiting a seaside resort in the summer wanted.

Thus the name: SeaGrille.

Oysters, swordfish, tuna, salmon, lobster, shrimp, mussels, scallops, clams, caviar. Today the menu still revolves around seafood.

The restaurant, now run by the younger generation of Harveys, is as popular and delicious as ever.

Kari Harvey Lindsay and her husband Zach run the front of the house and this summer EJ’s oldest teenage granddaughter, Maddy Lombardi, daughter of Adriene Harvey and Travis Lombardi, is hostessing, just like her grandmother, Robin, used to do.

Tucker Harvey, son of Robin and EJ and a 2007 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, is the chef and has cre-

ated a menu that builds on the legacy of the SeaGrille, but brings his own creative riffs to old favorites, using his experience cooking in Charleston and Hawaii to inform some of his flavors.

You cannot go wrong by beginning your meal with a selection from the raw bar menu. The seafood tower offers something for everyone: oysters, shrimp, clams, poke tuna and lobster tail.

Or, if you’re feeling fancy, the SeaGrille has added caviar service to its menu this year, with four different ways to enjoy these delicate pearls of the sea.

The SeaGrille has always been famous for its clam chowder and lobster bisque, and for good reason.

The chowder is thick and creamy and studded with potatoes and clams. The bisque is my favorite with all the flavors of lobster with chunks of the tender meat swimming in a smooth and comforting soup and topped with a disk of puff pastry.

Photo by Marianne Stanton Fried calamari with sweet and spicy peppers.

Photo by Marianne Stanton

Swordfish frites with hand-cut fries and an au poivre sauce.

Photo by Marianne Stanton Grilled lobster with house-made fettuccine.

There are a couple of salads on the menu as well, with my favorite being the roasted beet salad with candied pecans and fried goat cheese. Others in my family like the burrata with fried eggplant and tomatoes.

One of the most popular dishes at the SeaGrille is the linguiça-crusted cod with lobster mashed potatoes. The Portuguese sausage adds an interesting spicy note to the cod, an otherwise bland fish, while chunks of lobster folded into the potatoes is pure indulgence.

It’s also a nod to Nantucket’s past. Sixty years ago, a large portion of the yearround community were descendants of Portuguese from the Azores and Cape Verde who came to the island for jobs and a better life. Some of their culinary heritage remains.

A favorite menu item of mine is the baked stuffed shrimp. Stuffed with crabmeat and laced with lobster sauce, it’s a very rich dish, and one which I enjoy immensely.

If you love lobster, it is present in multiple ways throughout the SeaGrille menu.

Of course there is the traditional boiled lobster dinner, served with corn and potatoes. It’s a menu staple and the simplest way to enjoy this crustacean, dipping the sweet meat in melted butter.

But there’s more. Consider the following. Grilled lobster with house-made fet-

tucine and roasted tomatoes features a pound and a quarter lobster extracted from the shell and tossed with a tangle of pasta.

The lobster tortellini are purses of house-made pasta filled with lobster and served in a creamy sauce with peas, carrots, leeks and Parmesan cheese. I like this dish a lot, but can never finish it and end up taking the leftovers home.

The free form ravioli features sheets of pasta layered with lobster, scallops and shrimp and enriched with dollops of ricotta and savory mushrooms.

If you want lobster, but not just lobster, consider the seafood brodo. Call it Nantucket’s answer to bouillabaisse, in which seven kinds of fish and shellfish, including lobster, are steeped in a tomato-fennel broth and served with a garlic crouton and aioli.

Another favorite dish is the swordfish frites, an ocean-side play on traditional steak frites featuring two thin pieces of swordfish that are nicely grilled and served with excellent hand-cut French fries and an au poivre sauce.

The nice thing about the SeaGrille is that there truly is something for everyone on the menu here. If someone in your party doesn’t like seafood, there are options.

The SeaGrille offers several prepaDELICIOUS, PAGE 22

Seaside Stroll: Smooth Hummocks Coastal Preserve

By Neil Foley Contributing Writer

Where is your go-to beach? Do you prefer the lively crowds at Jetties or the sleepy quietness of Madaket Harbor?

Like many, I head to the south shore as my easy escape because it holds a special sprawling endlessness of both the beach and the horizon that I find comforting.

I love to look south toward the edge of the continental shelf and watch waves roll in steadily, crashing with clouds of spindrift.

Although south shore beaches have seen unfortunate debris washing ashore from the Vineyard Wind calamity, it is important to enjoy this wonderful stretch of the island and advocate for its continued protection.

Take a drive with me to experience the habitat among the salt-sprayed Smooth Hummocks Coastal Preserve.

Drive Hummock Pond Road and turn down Bartlett Farm Road, following it past the farm and out into the sandy

roads of the preserve.

The Nantucket Land Bank started purchasing parcels out here in 1985 while it was still within its first year of operation.

Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, the Land Bank has grown this preserve to over 400 contiguous acres of beautiful habitat protection and remarkable beach access.

The preserve stretches between Cisco and Miacomet, where the grid of sandy roads and good climbable dunes enclose fields of healthy sandplain grassland with a diverse array of species.

Northern harriers glide low over the open fields and hunt through shallow wetlands and coastal heathlands. Bayberry, blueberry, huckleberry and more grow in an interwoven patchwork of salt and sand-tolerant vegetation.

Early summer asters are popping up in tufts of sickle-leaved golden aster and slender sprigs of toothed white-topped

Courtesy of Neil Foley

The Smooth Hummocks Coastal Preserve encompasses more than 400 contiguous acres on the south shore between Cisco and Miacomet.

Courtesy of Neil Foley Yellow chain-dotted geometer caterpillars are everywhere this time of year.

Walk with Neil

aster.

As you walk the wide sandy roads, look for late-blooming roses and wild indigo, both setting seed as August opens into late summer.

Moth and butterfly diversity in this part of the island is spectacular and bountiful in shape, size and color.

This is a testament to the bountiful array of wildflowers which bloom from early May well into the asters and goldenrods of fall.

Watch your footfalls closely as thousands of tiny, yellow chain-dotted geometer caterpillars are inching their way around this landscape. Come late August these small yellow larvae will amass in clouds of tiny white moths with salt-andpepper wings lifting like fog from patches of young scrub oak.

Sizable and spiny barrens buckmoth caterpillars are similarly crawling in abundance and feasting on tender oak leaves and lowbush blueberry, bulking up on tasty plants to transform into striking black and white striped adults in a few weeks.

Lumbering their way along the sandy paths are Nantucket’s native rhinoceros

beetles, the ox beetle. Adult ox beetles may look sizable, but fear not, they are plant-munching herbivores and could not hurt you if they wanted to.

The small horns found prominently on males and more subtly on females are used more for digging out of sandy burrows than fighting for dominance.

Climb the south-facing dunes on one of the many access trails and look for surfers in the lineup waiting for their turn to catch a wave.

The ocean breeze here is enough to brighten any day. While you are atop the dune, turn around to face Smooth Hummocks and take in the spectacular view of the protected habitat here.

You can see so much diversity of life utilizing a space held in trust and management by the Nantucket Land Bank.

Whether you look south or north, the intrepid walker, biker or beach-goer is rewarded with plentiful reasons to enjoy island life.

Neil Foley is the interpretive education coordinator and ecologist at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.

Sunday Funday: Cranberry Alarm Clock at Sandbar

By Anna Popnikolova apopnikolova@inkym.com

When Tom Proch stopped in the middle of Madaket Road, got out of his car and walked over to Frankie Hunter’s car, it wasn’t road rage.

“He thought I was going to attack him,” he said.

Hunter plays guitar. Proch was in the market for a guitar player for a band he was putting together.

“I said, Hey! Why don’t we play?”

That was 10 years ago. Tom and his brother Phil invited Hunter to jam with them and guitar player Skip Curtin. The Cranberry Alarm Clock was born, They have been together for 10 years. Every Sunday that jam session that began a decade ago continues at Sandbar on Jetties Beach.

“We call it our weekly therapy session. To play music with people that are on the same page as you, there’s nothing like it,” Tom said. “My brother Phil and I have been playing together since we were kids, nothing professional or organized, but he was a great guitar player.”

“I took guitar lessons when I was 10,” Phil said. “I found out that I was musically inclined. My brother Tommy took up playing the drums and we used to make a lot of noise in mom and dad’s basement.

Some of the neighborhood kids that wanted to play music would come to our house and try to play with us.”

Tom learned how to play the drums at 13. It was not long before he was hooked, but he never quite had the space to play.

“Of course, being a chef and traveling, you can’t really bring a drum kit with you,” said Proch, who worked as head chef at The Club Car for 30 years, after graduating from Johnson & Wales culinary school.

Today he is the culinary arts teacher at Nantucket High School, and helps his wife, Pauline Proch, run the nonprofit Our House.

“Once my wife and I bought a house out here I said, great! I can put my drums out here. When we had kids, the drums had to move to the basement,” Tom said.

Courtesy of Tom Proch

An animated illustration of Nantucket’s The Cranberry Alarm Clock on stage at Sandbar at Jetties Beach.

Courtesy of Tom Proch

The Cranberry Alarm Clock in front of the downtown compass rose.

MusACK

Now he has an excuse to play his drums every week.

“Sunday is Sandbar’s busiest day of the week. It’s a great crowd, it’s always a good vibe. Maybe on the holiday weekends it gets a little crazy, but we have a good following of people who are always there and really enjoy the music,” Tom said.

“We get the crowd into it, I always have tambourines and cowbells that people can pick up and jam in. They love us.”

Day jobs can be stressful, but the band always has the weekend to look forward to. In addition to the Sandbar gig, they occasionally play shows at venues like Great Harbor Yacht Club and Cisco Brewers.

“It’s very therapeutic for me to make music. Our work weeks can be really hectic,” said Phil, a building contractor. “But when I put on a guitar and we start playing music for a crowd and everybody’s happy and cheering and singing, it’s a really good feeling.”

The four-piece rock cover band has been putting their energy into recording a CD for their fans. The CD will drop Aug.

10, when they’ll start selling it at their gigs. It contains recordings of their favorite Beatles songs, like “If I Needed Someone,” “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” “I am the Walrus” and more.

“I got my first Beatles album when I was in kindergarten, for my birthday. I thought the Beatles were just awesome and I ended up being a Beatles fan for the rest of my life,” Phil said. “I was 5 then and I’m 64 now. It’s still just as enjoyable today as it was back then.”

A shared love of the Beatles runs through the band, but The Cranberry Alarm Clock also loves listening to and covering the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Tom said they gravitate toward eclectic tunes they hope audiences haven’t heard played live, and they’re always looking for new old songs to try out.

“Being part of a band, we’re like a band of brothers, even though Tommy is my brother, flesh and blood. We always look out for each other,” Phil said. “And, we put out some great music.”

“MEET THE ARTISTS” - FREE, FUN & INFORMATIVE Monday, Aug 5 at 5:30 p.m. Location United Methodist Church Tickets online – nantucketmusicalartssociety.org

Photo by Willy Lemay

The Cranberry Alarm Clock outside the Methodist Church.

Reaching Perfection: A farmer, a vintner and a chef

By Peter McEachern

Contributing Writer

Just a few years ago, I brought my daughter Isabelle on a life-changing trip to one of Europe’s most pastoral regions along the northeast corner of Italy and western Slovenia.

Both areas share four languages: Italian, Slovenian, German and Friulian. English is also widely spoken, making it easier for us as we were searching for perfection: a farmer, a vintner and a chef.

Laura Zoff is the farmer, Enzo Pontoni is the vintner and Ana Ros is the chef. All three have so much in common.

They grow and cultivate using the land’s natural fertility, express themselves through their products, bring people together and do it in a way that is

wholesome and near perfection each day.

The farmer

In the small hamlet of Borgnano, close to the town of Cormons within the province of Gorizia, we find the Fattoria Zoff.

If you could ask one of the Pezzata Rossa cows what time of day it is, they’d tell you that they walk into their stalls to provide milk twice a day at the same time.

The cows and the farm are not on an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule. They’re on a 24hour schedule, rain, shine, snow or whatever is taking place.

Zoff took over the farm when it was a pure milk farm, and today, she has

Courtesy of Peter McEachern

Chef Ana Ros in the kitchen of her Michelin-starred restaurant, Hisa Franko.

Courtesy of Peter McEachern

The sun goes down over the vineyards of Collio, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

The Wine Cellar

made it a truly organic farm that uses its milk to produce some of the region’s best cheeses.

It’s those cheeses that draw people from places like Nantucket. One important note about Laura’s cows: since going organic, the life expectancy of her cows went from five years to well over 15.

When asked why, she replied, “It’s all what you eat.” They thrive on native grasses and 15 different types of herbs taken to their fertile fields.

The art of cheese

Most of the Zoff Farms cheese starts with raw organic milk, not pasteurized milk, rennet, local sea salt, lactic ferments in their yogurt and citric acid in their mozzarella.

The lack of ingredients makes a huge statement, yet the best thing is to taste the products. You can close your eyes and allow your senses time to detect freshcut hay, subtle hints of butter and a texture that changes based on the age of the cheese.

The names are simple: Il 365 (aged for a year), Lat (short for Latte, milk in Italian), Il Vecchio Zoff (the nine-month-old cheese), Il Fossa (which ages in native limestone) and Il Nestri (a very young cheese).

The vintner

Two towns to the north, you’ll come across Buttrio, a very small town. Most of the countryside is dotted with close-knit, compact enclaves as most of the land is put aside for the agriculture that thrives in the Torre and Isonzo river plains, also known as the Tor and Soca.

Believe me when I tell you that if you remember two names, remember Miani and Pontoni. Enzo Pontoni has been making wines in the region since the early 1980s.

I won’t be the first to say this, but if you ever see a Miani wine on a wine list or in a wine store, buy it and be ready to taste a wine that truly expresses the land where it is grown.

Enzo named his winery after his mother, using her maiden name. He also names each wine by the grape varietal used or the specific vineyard. It has taken years of investigating the many vineyards and their soil structure to find the perfect combination for each of his wines.

His white varietal blend, Bianco, combines Malvasia, Friulano and Sauvignon Blanc to produce a mineral and citrus approach.

CELLAR, PAGE 22

“Globe Thistle, Sconset” by Mary Ellen Castle

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Hannah Taylor

“The Tainted Cup” an expertly-woven murder mystery

By Clara Kempf Contributing Writer

Among my circle of friends, one of the best things a book can do is open with a map.

A good map is a signpost, clearly indicating to the would-be reader that they are, so to speak, no longer in Kansas, but rather, that they are about to be warped through the pages into a different world entirely, one scaffolded by intensive world-building and seasoned with new and fascinating ideas of what life could be like if the world were just a bit different.

When I first opened Robert Jackson Bennett’s “The Tainted Cup,” I was far from disappointed.

The map in question intrigued me, and sparked questions that immediately prepared me to immerse myself in its universe.

What are these strange, layered walls, radiating out like semi-circular waves from the capital to the ocean? What happened at the Ruins of Oypat to render them, well, ruins? Why does the ocean seem like it itself is what is being warded off?

And so, before I had even read my first page, I had become hopelessly invested in this book’s mystery: not the titular poisoning case, not yet at any rate, but the greater mysteries surrounding the world our protagonists live in, ones that, to my delight, were not answered entirely by exposition, but rather were left to be revealed to the reader naturally, through the protagonist’s discoveries and daily experiences.

The murder case itself, too, is expertly woven. The homage to Arthur Conan

eyes and ears outside of her confinement.

and doggedness, a new case-shattering revelation being discovered every chapter and sending the reader scrambling to turn the page even quicker to find more.

Beneath these intricate layers of political intrigue and, as Ana Dolabra would no doubt refer to it, skulduggery, this is a novel about nature and the role it plays intertwined with human life.

The engineers and medikkers of “The Tainted Cup’s” empire may have perfected how to use the near-magical flora and fauna of their world to augment and heal themselves, to provide the conveniences of daily life and to arm themselves against outside harm.

Doyle’s iconic Holmes and Watson shines through in our dual protagonists.

There is the eccentric and foulmouthed elderly detective Ana Dolabra, who is first introduced in self-appointed house arrest, complaining of the lack of interesting things going on as she systematically torments her neighbors, invents new ways to butcher musical instruments and attempts to convince her much more straight-laced assistant to procure her illegal drugs.

This assistant, of course, is Dinios Kol, our point of view into the world: a newly-graduated engraver, trained and altered to be able to recall any scene he views (or action he performs) photographically, in order to serve as Ana’s

This quirk allows the text to linger on the minute details of every scene, making every vivid description of a character or place feel true to the character’s experience, and not solely the product of artistry. However, despite the homage, these two are ultimately themselves, and their unlikely friendship truly shines, especially in their moments of greatest contrast.

Even as the plotline becomes delightfully complex, peeling away onion layers of secrecy and nefarious intent from what otherwise begins as a strange but cleanly cut-and-dried murder case, the personalities of the characters remain compelling and distinctive.

Where other investigators would have called it a day at the first turn, Kol and Ana, as results of their individual motivations, dissect their mystery with zeal

But that outside harm, too, comes from the sheer force of nature, be it the colossal leviathans from the sea which constantly threaten the oceanic walls, or be it corruption: what happens when that otherwise so convenient plant growth becomes a little too eager.

Nature is a force that cannot be tamed and yoked to the plow of human civilization, no matter how advanced and well-organized it becomes.

It always maintains its own wild independence, one to be respected, awed by and yes, at times, feared.

In Bennett’s novel, it is an omnipresent force that provides endless fascinations, from the beautiful to the terrible, seeping even through the book’s bindings to become part of the illustration.

Clara Kempf is a library associate at the Nantucket Atheneum.

Fredrick Clow Photographer

Wed, August 7

6 pm: Gallery Opening

Registration open for Annual Sandcastle Contest at Jetties Beach Saturday, August 3 Noon - 4pm

Clow & Nantucket Photographers: Larry Cronin and Anne Conway Jennings Catered event by The Inquirer and Mirror

7 pm: Fred Clow: Shares 7 decades of adventuresome life stories photographing Nehru, Churchill, President Kennedy and Family, and 13 Presidents

Robert Jackson Bennett

Good Reads

Photo courtesy of The Inquirer and Mirror, Photo by: Nicole Harnishfeger.

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invites alumni and parents to the Nantucket Cocktail Reception

Fairfield University President

Fairfield University President

Fairfield University President

Fairfield University President

Fairfield University President

Fairfield University President

Mark R. Nemec, PhD invites alumni and parents to the Nantucket Cocktail Reception

Fairfield University President

Mark R. Nemec, PhD

Fairfield University President

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Mark R. Nemec, PhD

Fairfield University President

Mark R. Nemec, PhD

Mark R. Nemec, PhD

Mark R. Nemec, PhD invites alumni and parents to the

Mark R. Nemec, PhD invites alumni and parents to the Nantucket Cocktail Reception

Mark R. Nemec, PhD

Mark R. Nemec, PhD

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All Stags and Family of Stags are Welcome

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All Stags and Family of Stags are Welcome

All Stags and Family of Stags are Welcome

All Stags and Family of Stags are Welcome

All Stags and Family of Stags are Welcome

All Stags and Family of Stags are Welcome

All Stags and Family of Stags are Welcome

R.S.V.P. by Monday, August 5, 2024 to ose@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000 ext. 2927

R.S.V.P. by Monday, August 5, 2024 to ose@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000 ext. 2927

All Stags and Family of Stags are Welcome

R.S.V.P. by Monday, August 5, 2024 to ose@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000 ext. 2927

All Stags and Family of Stags are Welcome

R.S.V.P. by Monday, August 5, 2024 to ose@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000 ext. 2927

R.S.V.P. by Monday, August 5, 2024 to ose@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000 ext. 2927

R.S.V.P. by Monday, August 5, 2024 to ose@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000 ext. 2927

R.S.V.P. by Monday, August 5, 2024 to ose@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000 ext. 2927

R.S.V.P. by Monday, August 5, 2024 to ose@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000 ext. 2927

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Shop Old South Wharf

Kari and Peter England: Classic designs rooted in years of family tradition

By Nicole Vawter

Contributing Writer

While shopping on Old South Wharf, you have most likely passed two boutiques: Peter England and Kari England. While the two shops are enticing enough in themselves, many don’t know the unique story behind them.

The two shops are rooted in family history and date back to the 1960s. Peter and Kari ’s father was on a journey to Nantucket with a boat he called Kari. Along the way, he made a spontaneous stop for lunch on Martha’s Vineyard but got a little distracted by a waitress who would later become his wife.

It was love at first sight, and the rest, as they say, is history. The couple opened Peter England 10 years later and it was eventually passed down to their son, Peter Junior, who now proudly operates the family-owned shop with his wife Amy.

Wanting in on the family fun, Kari England opened her own boutique just a few steps away from her brother’s. The two boutiques situated along a picturesque white shell path are filled with handmade clothing in original designs, from sweaters to pants to dresses and more.

Both shops carry unique and timeless pieces that are designed by Peter, Amy and Kari. Peter England is known for its classic design of luxury knit sweaters and shirts, while Kari England boasts a beautiful collection of dresses, blouses and skirts which all radiate a feminine energy.

“Peter England is like Jackie O stylistically and Kari England is like Marilyn Monroe,” Amy said with a smile.

New to Peter England this summer are linen and silk pieces for both men and women, which Amy said “have worked out perfectly because it’s been such a hot summer,” noting how breathable the pieces are.

In addition to timeless clothing, Peter England sells handbags from various designers, including DokKim which once had its own shop on the wharf.

Peter and Amy are also very excited to be featuring the paintings of Amy’s mother, Diane Hunt, this summer.

“She’s worked in oil-based painting for over 60 years,” Amy said.

To celebrate this summer, the first time that Diane has shown her work on Nantucket, Peter England will host a meet

and greet with the artist Thursday, Aug. 8 from 5-7 p.m.

Just a few steps down the wharf, Kari plays with multiple different textures and fabrics, introducing several new de-

signs each summer.

The minute you step into Kari England you feel a sense of beachfront femininity. With open doors on both sides of the shop, the Nantucket sun perfectly exemplifies the beautiful colors and fabrics hanging within the store.

Kari enjoys making pieces that are fit for all types of occasions such as her standout piece from last summer which was a stunning fuchsia dress that on one side was linen for the daytime but could be reversed to be a silk evening-wear dress.

From FaceTiming her clients for a personal tour of the merchandise to creating personalized designs, Kari prides herself in customizing her store and her shoppers’ experience.

“You get to know your customers.” Kari said. “We have clients who have shopped with us for 30 years and have come back every summer with their friends.”

When asked if she has ever seen a friendly rivalry between the sibling duo, Amy laughed, saying, “In the past we’ve had a friendly rivalry between the brother and sister stores but mostly we really support each other as family and often bring customers from one store to the other.”

The family business has extended into the next generation as Peter and Amy’s 20-year-old daughter Ella has been helping out at Peter England for years.

“I like helping my family,” Ella said. “It’s special to be able to help them and is very rewarding.”

The family business of Peter, Amy, Kari and now young Ella is looking ahead to Peter England’s 50th anniversary next summer.

“We’re planning a big celebration for our 50th anniversary,” Amy said. “On our 40th anniversary we had a fun Labor Day event where people wore their oldest or favorite Peter England sweater.”

The family is hoping to spend next summer honoring the decades that the Nantucket community has been supporting both Peter and Kari England.

Peter England, 3 Old South Wharf, (508) 228-1977; and Kari England, 11 Old South Wharf, (508) 228-2557.

Courtesy of Kari England

Kari England outside her Old South Wharf boutique.

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Live Music: CC & The Boys

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. New York City-based classic country band CC & The Boys will perform. Additional show Friday.

Unraveling PFAS

5:30 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Leading scientific and policy experts discuss PFAS, including updates from the Nantucket PFAS well project. Moderated by The Boston Globe’s David Abel. Tickets at nantucketdreamland.org

Creative Community Collaborative

6 p.m. Thursdays, Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts, 23 Wauwinet Road. Join fellow island creatives to collaborate, create and build community while listening to musicians try out new material.

Denison University Gathering

6-8 p.m. Location provided upon registration. Alumni, parents and friends of Denison University are invited to the annual summer gathering with president Adam Weinberg. RSVP at alumni.denison.edu/nantucket

Geschke Lecture: Jonathan Koppell

6 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. Koppell, president of Montclair State University in New Jersey, advocates for the role of universities as engines of public good that bring enormous value to their communities and the nation. Tickets on calendar page of www.nantucketatheneum.org

Live Music: Jacob Butler

6 p.m. Thursdays, The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Island singer-songwriter Jacob Butler will perform.

“Clue”

7 p.m. Bennett Hall, 62 Centre St. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents “Clue,” based on the 1985 movie inspired by the classic board game. Through Aug. 24. Visit www.theatrenantucket.org for tickets and additional dates.

Special Screening: “Lost Nation”

7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Dreamland presents filmmaker Jay Craven’s new historical action drama, “Lost Nation,” shot on Nantucket. Q&A with Craven to follow. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.com

Owl Prowl

8 p.m. Thursdays, Maria Mitchell Association Research Center, 2 Vestal St. Listen for the calls of nocturnal animals and birds and watch for owls as they begin their nightly activity. Register on the calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Live Music: Arcy Drive

10 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Long Island, N.Y.-based indie band Arcy Drive will perform. 21 and over.

Live Music: Local Notes

10 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Island band Local Notes, featuring Gabe Zinser, Hunter Gross, Aidan Sullivan, Jerry Mack, Jason Sullivan and lead singer Natalie Mack, will perform. 21 and over.

Live Music: The Rumble

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. New Orleans-based jazz and funk band The Rumble will perform. 21 and over. Additional shows Friday and Saturday.

Friday, Aug. 2

Beach Cleanup

8:30 a.m. Nobadeer Beach, Nobadeer Avenue. Join the Nantucket Surf School and the Surfrider Foundation to clean up the beach and raise awareness of litter and plastics pollution. Reception to follow at Dan Lemaitre Gallery. Register at volunteer.surfrider.org

Squam Farm Walk

8:30 a.m. RSVP for location. Explore the retired pastures, forested paths and hidden wetlands of Squam Farm with a Nantucket Conservation Foundation guide. Second walk same time Saturday. Register on events page of nantucketconservation.org

Swamp Romp

9:45 a.m. Atheneum garden, 1 India St. Join Johnette Downing, the “pied piper of Louisiana music traditions” and Grammy winner Scott Billington for a gumbo of roots music and stories. Free. Bring a blanket.

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Nantucket Community Sailing

30th Anniversary Beach Party

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Nantucket Sailing Center, Jetties Beach, Bathing Beach Road. Free access to sailing, kayaking and paddleboarding, along with music, beach games, cake and giveaways. Free and open to all.

Nature Ramble

10 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. Explore gently rolling trails through sand-plain grassland and coastal heathland habitats with a Linda Loring Foundation staff member. Visit the events page of www.llnf.org to register.

NanPuppets

10:30 a.m. Nantucket Whaling Museum Discovery Room, 13 Broad St. Celebrate the Summer of Sarg with Lizza Obremski and her puppet friends. Free with museum admission.

Playground Pals

10:30 a.m. Discovery Playground, Old South Road. A weekly playgroup for all ages with a parent or guardian. Stories read in English and Spanish. Free. Drop-in.

Villanova Summer Social

3:30 p.m. Millie’s, 326 Madaket Road. All Villanova alumni, parents, students, family and friends are invited to this summer social with university president Rev. Peter M. Donahue. RSVP to vuevents.villanova.edu/nantucket2024

Art Opening: AAN

5-7 p.m. Big Gallery, 12 Straight Wharf. The Artists Association of Nantucket will host an opening reception for its “Bathed in Light” exhibition.

Art Opening: Old Spouter

5 p.m. Old Spouter Gallery, 118 Orange St. The gallery will host an opening reception for its exhibition of work by David Halliday.

Art Opening: Gallery at Four India

6-8 p.m. The Gallery at Four India Street, 4 India St. The gallery will host an opening reception for “Chips and Codes,” its exhibition of work by Susan Currie.

Live Music: Jacob Butler

6 p.m. Fridays, The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Island singer-songwriter Jacob Butler will perform.

Woofstock

6 p.m. Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. Music, drinks, dancing and dogs to benefit Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for Animals. Retro threads encouraged. Tickets at https://betterunite.com/nisha-woofstock2024

Concert: Patty Griffin

7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Patty Griffin will perform. Visit www.nantucketdreamland.org for tickets.

“Tick, Tick . . .BOOM!”

7 PM. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, 62 Centre St. TWN presents “tick, tick… BOOM!,” an autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning composer of “Rent.” It’s a story of a composer and the sacrifices he made to achieve his big break in theater. Through Aug. 17. Visit www. theatrenantucket.org for tickets and additional times.

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CUSTOM IN-GROUND POOLS & SPAS

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Family Stargazing

9 p.m. Loines Observatory, 59 Milk St. Maria Mitchell Association staff lead a viewing of the moon, planets, star clusters, nebulae and other galaxies in this program designed for families. Register on the calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org.

Saturday, Aug. 3

Nantucket Clean Team

8 a.m. Handlebar Café, 15 Washington St., and Tom Nevers Field and coastline, end of Tom Nevers Road. The Nantucket Clean team meets Saturdays from spring through fall to pick up trash around the island for an hour. Bags and pickers provided.

Farmers & Artisans Market

8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cambridge Street, between Federal and South Water. Sustainable Nantucket hosts a market of fresh local produce, island cottage-industry artisans and food. Free, weather permitting.

Rafael Osona Online Americana Auction

9:30 a.m. rafaelosonaauction.com.

Day one of a two-day auction featuring more than 1,000 lots of Americana, fine art, décor and marine estate items. Live previews 10 a.m.-5 p.m. July 30-Aug. 2 at American Legion Hall, 21 Washington St.

Beginner’s Ukulele Workshop

9:45 a.m. Nantucket Atheneum, 1 India St. Louisiana musician Johnette Downing will teach beginners how to master a few simple chords and strums. Space is limited. Call (508) 228-1110 to register. Bring your own ukulele.

Non-voting Taxpayers Meeting

10 a.m. Meeting trailer, 131 Pleasant St. and via Zoom. Town manager Libby Gibson will speak to the committee about current issues and answer questions. All are welcome.

NanPuppets

10 a.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Join Lizza Obremski and her puppet friends for fun at the beach. Weather permitting.

Book-Signing: Nat Philbrick

10:30-11:30 a.m. Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. National Book Award winning island author Nat Philbrick will sign copies of his books, including “In the Heart of the Sea.”

Harmonica Workshop

11 a.m. Atheneum learning lab, 1 India St. Grammy-winning blues musician and producer Scott Billington teaches the basics of blues and folk harmonica. Space is limited. For students 12 and up. Register on calendar page of www.nantucketatheneum.org

Live Music: Jimmy Denny

Noon, Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Raised in the South, singer-songwriter Jimmy Denny has been performing his own combination of folk, rock, Americana, pop, jazz and funk on Nantucket for several summers.

Sandcastle and Sculpture Contest

1-4 p.m. Jetties Beach, end of Bathing Beach Road. Spectators and contestants come out every year to participate in this family-oriented Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts event. Judges award prizes in several categories.

Live Music: Luffkid

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Luffkid – Adam Robinson Luffkin – brings his funk and rock sound to Cisco.

A Nantucket Night NHA Fundraiser

5 p.m. Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. Celebrate 130 years of the Nantucket Historical Association, learn more about the NHA’s featured Tony Sarg exhibition, enjoy cocktails, a seated dinner, live music and dancing. Tickets on calendar page of www.nha.org

Sunday, Aug. 4

Bird Walk

7:45 a.m. Maria Mitchell Association classroom, 33 Washington St. Explore Nantucket’s avian landscapes with island bird guide and I&M columnist Ginger Andrews. Wear sensible shoes, dress for the weather. Children 8 and up welcome with an adult guardian. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Rafael Osona Online Americana Auction

9:30 a.m. rafaelosonaauction.com. Day two of a two-day auction featuring

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NINTH ANNUAL CLASSIC YACHT EXHIBITION will be held in the Nantucket Boat Basin on Saturday, August 17th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. The yachts in the Classic Yacht Exhibition participate by invitation only, and this year we are featuring historic classics including some Concordia yachts. This is a special opportunity for guests to go aboard and see these beautiful yachts up close — which doesn’t happen anywhere else!

Check-in to the Classic Yacht Exhibition is on the Straight Wharf dock. Participants will receive a booklet describing each of the yachts on display, and a map showing their location. We ask our guests to follow any rules that owners have for boarding their yachts, i.e., no shoes, no food or drink, and a limited number of visitors at a time. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided by Fusion of Flavor. Tickets are $25 per person and may be purchased in advance on the NRW website or at the event.

Photo: Diana Brown

Photo: Karen Ryan

The Classic Yacht Exhibition is presented by

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more than 1,000 lots of Americana, fine art, décor and marine estate items. Live previews 10 a.m.-5 p.m. July 30-Aug. 2 at American Legion Hall, 21 Washington St.

Live Music: Guavatron

3 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. West Palm Beach, Fla. jam band Guavatron will perform.

Dreamland Conversation:

Susan Glasser, Peter Baker & Theo Baker

5 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser, New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and their son, investigative journalist Theo Baker, will discuss the global political landscape and the 2024 presidential race. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Ukulele Drop-in

5:30 p.m. Sundays, Nantucket Community Music Center, 56 Centre St. No instrument? No problem. All ages welcome. Free, but registration required at nantucketmusic.org

Live Music: Julia Newman

6 p.m. Sundays, The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket singer-songwriter Julia Newman will perform.

Sunday Night Concert

6 p.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Nantucket’s Bad Dads Band will perform. Free.

Live Music: Donovan Frankenreiter

7 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. 21 and over. Singer-songwriter-surfer Donovan Frankenreiter returns to the Chicken Box. 21 and over.

Live Music: Andy Frasco & the U.N.

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. Los Angeles, Calif.-based blues-rock band Andy Frasco and the U.N. will perform. 21 and over.

Monday, Aug. 5

Guided Bike Tour: Ram Pasture

8 a.m. RSVP for location. Join avid cyclist and Nantucket Conservation Foundation trustee Jim Meehan to tour the trails and dirt roads of Ram Pasture. Helmet and mountain bike suitable for rough roads required. Register on events page of nantucketconservation.org

Flower-arranging Class

10 a.m. Saltmarsh Senior Center, 81 Washington St. Create a flower arrangement from a variety of stemmed flowers. Bring your own vase. Space is limited. Call (508) 228-4490 to register.

Sarg Community Day

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Children’s Beach, Harborview Way. A free, family-friendly day to celebrate the Nantucket Historical Association’s featured exhibition, “Tony Sarg: Genius at Play.” A Nanpuppets show, Sarg-inspired crafts and a chance to see one of Sarg’s amazing creations, a sea monster.

Live Music: Brother Other

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Hartford, Conn.-based Americana duo Brother Other will perform. Second show Tuesday.

Meet the Artists

5:30 p.m. Methodist Church, 2 Centre St. A free, fun and informal opportunity to meet the artists performing in Tuesday’s Nantucket Musical Arts Society concert at St. Paul’s Church: the Shelest piano duo, Anna and Dmitri Shelest. Free.

Harborview Concert: Foggy Roots

6 p.m. Dreamland Theater roof deck, 17 South Water St. Nantucket’s own roots reggae band Foggy Roots will perform. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Musical: “Half Share Man”

7 p.m. Sconset Chapel, 18 New St. The story of the Half-Share Revolt illustrates the political and economic discrepancies between established settlers of Nantucket and an influx of newcomers who became disillusioned by their status. A collaboration between island musician Mollie Glazer and playwright Joan Bigwood. Free.

“Me, Myself and Barbra”

7:30 p.m. White Heron Theatre, 5 North Water St. Singer Jenna Pastuszek and Broadway conductor Joshua Zecher-Ross team up to provide a dash of Borscht Belt comedy and Barbra Streisand’s early hits like “Happy Days are Here Again” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade.” Tickets at www.whiteherontheatre.org

Special Screening: “The Harder they Come”

8 p.m. Dreamland Drive-in, 17 Nobadeer Farm Road. The Dreamland will screen this 1972 Jamaican crime film starring Jimmy Cliff, with a soundtrack that is credited with bringing reggae to

the world. This screening benefits Donick Cary’s MusACK program, which provides instruments and music instruction to children in underserved communities. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Open Night at the Observatory

9 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Loines Observatory, 59 Milk St. Maria Mitchell Association staff lead this viewing of the moon, planets, star clusters, nebulae and other galaxies. Register on the calendar page of www.mariamitchell. org.

Tuesday, Aug. 6

Music in the Morning

9:45 a.m. Atheneum garden 1 India St. Join Lizza Obremski in the garden for songs and singing games. Space is limited.

Polpis Harbor Kayak Paddle

10 a.m. RSVP for location. Join Jen Karberg and staff from the town’s natural resources department to paddle Polpis Harbor and learn about harbor health, saltmarsh ecology and nature-based resilience solutions. Register on events page of nantucketconservation.org

Classical Music Concert

7 p.m. St. Paul’s Church, 20 Fair St. Anna and Dimitri Shelest, the Shelest piano duo, will perform in the fifth installment of the Nantucket Musical Arts Society’s summer concert series. Tickets, $30, available at the door.

Comedy Night: Wendy Liebman and Jane Condon

7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Wendy Liebman, who has appeared on Carson, Letterman, Leno and Fallon; and Nantucket summer resident Jane Condon, who has performed with Lewis Black, present an evening of standup comedy. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

“Fear of Heights”

7:30 p.m. White Heron Theatre, 5 North Water St. Comedian and actor Kevin Flynn brings an updated version of his one-man show, conceived at White Heron Theatre in 2018, back to the stage. Through Aug. 15. Visit www.whiteherontheatre.org for tickets and times.

Live Music: The Elovators

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. Boston-based rock-reggae band The Elovators will perform. 21 and over. Second show Wednesday.

Wednesday, Aug. 7

Birding Field Trip

7:45 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. Explore Nantucket’s birding hot spots and observe birds in their natural habitats. Binoculars, spotting scopes and field guides available. Register at llnf.org/events/ birdingjuly24

Downtown Resilience Planning Open House

8-9:30 a.m. and 5:30-7 p.m., Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. Learn about the town’s coastal resilience plan, flood risk data and next steps. Input welcome. Complimentary refreshments and activities for kids. Drop-in.

Book-signings: Elin Hilderbrand and Catherine Newman

11 a.m.-noon, Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. Best-selling island author Elin Hilderbrand will sign copies of her novels, including the latest, “Swan Song;” and Catherine Newman will sign copies of her new best-seller, “Sandwich.”

House and Garden Walking Tour

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Register for locations. The Nantucket Garden Club presents its highly-anticipated annual summer fundraiser. The theme of this year’s tour is “A Pleasant Summer Stroll.” Tickets, $75, available at www.nantucketgardenclub.org

Live Music: Buckle & Shake

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Nantucket’s own alt-country band Buckle & Shake will perform.

Book-Signing: Sy Montgomery and Matt Patterson

5-6 p.m. Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. Sy Montgomery and Matt Patterson will sign copies of their books, “Of Time and Turtles” and “Soul of an Octopus.”

Fairfield University Cocktail Reception

5 p.m. Location provided upon registration. All Fairfield University parents, students, alumni and friends are invited to this cocktail reception with president Mark R. Nemec. Call (203) 254-4000, ext. 2927 to RSVP.

Celebrating Fred Clow

6 p.m. Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts, 23 Wauwinet Road. Frederick G.S. Clow spent more than seven decades photographing some of

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the most famous and influential people in the world, along with everyday people and events, as a photographer for the Associated Press, The Inquirer and Mirror and other news agencies.

Atheneum Knitting Group

6:30 p.m. Atheneum first floor, 1 India St. Calling all knitters. Gather your projects and supplies and knit with a group of beginners and veteran knitters. Free.

Film for Thought: “Four Winters”

7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Shattering the myth of Jewish passivity, the last surviving partisans tell their stories of resistance against the Nazis and their collaborators in this documentary. Q&A with director Julia Mintz after the film.

Thursday, Aug. 8

Book-Signing: Anita McBride

Noonday Concert: Miles Quick

Noon, Unitarian Meeting House, 11 Orange St. Miles Quick, director of music at Taunton Minister in Taunton, U.K., will be the featured musician. Free.

Live Music: Nikki and the Barn Boys

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Cape Cod-based rock and soul band Nikki and the Barn Boys will perform. Additional show Friday.

Artist Meet and Greet

5-7 p.m. Peter England, 3 Old South Wharf. The boutique will host a meetand-greet with oil painter Diane Hunt, whose work is on display.

Conservation Foundation Annual Meeting

5 p.m. Great Harbor Yacht Club, 96 Washington St. Learn about current happenings at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, followed by a presentation by award-winning author Sy Montgomery and naturalist artist Matt Patterson, followed by cocktails and light bites.

10:30 a.m.-noon, Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. Author Anita McBride will sign copies of her best-selling book “Remember the First Ladies.”

Preservation Trust August Fete

5-10 p.m. West Chester Street. More than just a cocktail party, the Fête is an elevated block party with food and libations, live music and a chance to see behind closed doors the possibilities of preservation up close. Tickets at nantucketpreservation.org

“Newsies Jr.”

5:30 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Dreamland Stage Company presents “Newsies Jr.,” based on the Broadway play of the same name. Additional shows Friday, Saturday and two Sunday. Visit www.nantucketdreamland.org for times and tickets.

Geschke Lecture: Bianca Bosker

6 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. Author Bianca Bosker will discuss her work, her best-selling book “Cork Dork” and her latest best-seller, “Get the Picture: A Mind-bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See.” Tickets on calendar page of www.nantucketatheneum.org

The White Party

6-9 p.m. Nantucket Hotel, 77 Easton St. The White Party brings the Nantucket community together to make an impact on colorectal cancer and honor the memory of Karli Stahl. A reception, cocktails, program and entertainment. Tickets at https://impact.ccalliance.org/event/2024the-white-party/e570418/register/new/ select-tickets

Live Music: 7-Day Weekend

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. New England party band 7-Day Weekend will perform. 21 and over. Additional shows Friday and Saturday.

Live Music: The Mammoths

10 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Texas-based The Mammoths perform a mix of blues, rock and funky psychedelic soul.

Cellar: The search for perfection; A farmer, a vintner and a chef

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Ribolla Gialla Pettarin is the only Ribolla Gialla-based wine that Pontoni produces. The vines are between 80 and 100 years old, and Pontoni purchased this entire vineyard from the Pettarin family a few years ago.

Many find this vineyard the Grand Cru of all Ribolla in Italy. The wine will be sensational when the growing year is warm, dry and windy.

The white Friulano grape is sourced near the winery in Buttrio and named Friulano Buri. Once again, older vines produce rich, fruity wines with flavors of peach and pineapple.

The other Friulano, Friulano Filip, is derived from vines growing near Rosazzo. The Filip takes more time to develop and provides hints of pear and apple. Both wines need at least six years of aging, and one needs patience.

The Malvasia wine is called Mont di Zuc and is the rarest of rare wines. The grapes are softly pressed and left to age in wood barrels before bottling.

Pontoni also produces two Chardonnays and the same with Sauvignon Blanc. The first Chardonnay, Zitelle, is a shared farm with Pontoni’s friend, Paolo Meroi. The Sauvignon Zitelle is grown within a sub-plot, and some would say the entire vineyard was blessed as it used to be owned by the local nuns, who rented to the area’s wine growers.

The Sauvignon Saurint is the one that expresses Buttrio and Sauvignon, showing an extremely rich-textured Sauvignon Blanc.

Pontoni plants two red grape varietals, Merlot and Refosco. The Merlot Buri and Filip rank with the best Merlots in the world, even Petrus. The Refosco grapes are from Calvari, Cossut and La Mont de Zuc vineyards.

The chef

Looking for a place to enjoy the local cheese, the local wines and how to put sustainability on your menu and mean it?

Look no further than driving 40 minutes from Buttrio on state road S14 to Cividale del Friuli, then onto S54 up past Mont Matajur. You enter Slovenia at the pass and head down to Hisa Franko.

Years ago another restaurant was at this site and served local roast beef and Friko cheese. Today, chef Ana Ros and her husband have placed the world on notice, being the first three-star Michelin chef in Slovenia and one of the world’s top chefs.

Chef Ros welcomed Isabelle and me into her world while dinner service was winding down. I can still see Isabelle’s awe at the number of professional young kitchen and service staff. Ana’s husband

Franko took us into his world: the wine cellar and the cheese cave.

Chef Ros’ menu is a multi-course creation served over three hours, allowing diners to savor and prepare their palates for the next course. She also has a bakery and an a la carte restaurant in the capital of Slovenia, Lubiana.

The concept of local and regional sustainability is personal to everyone in the area. It used to be normal, and now we’re having to re-learn the concepts of seasonal cuisine. We should always try to celebrate what we have, and when that food source is out of season, we should plan with patience until next year.

Peter McEachern is the general manager of the Nantucket Yacht Club. He has been buying wine, creating wine lists and running wine tastings since 1983. He can be reached at peter@nantucketyachtclub.org

Delicious: New favorites, old classics at tried and true SeaGrille

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rations of filet mignon and an excellent chicken Milanese, in which a chicken cutlet is pounded thin, breaded and fried until crispy and served with a caprese salad.

If you have room for dessert there are several choices from gelato to an

ooey-gooey butter cake to a chocolate brownie sundae and a riff on key lime pie. Note that the SeaGrille serves a very good cup of espresso.

The SeaGrille, 45 Sparks Ave., is open nightly in season, serving dinner from

5-9 p.m. Call (508) 325-5700 for reservations. theseagrille.com

Delicious is a food column devoted to exploring the island’s foodscape, and reporting on new trends in cuisine, old favorites and what I deem truly delicious. You will not read about anything in my

column which I don’t personally feel is worth your dining dollars. I’m happy to receive your tips of places you like that I should consider trying. Reach me at mrstanton1215@gmail.com and put Delicious in the subject line. I look forward to hearing from you!