Nantucket News

A Jamaican painting contractor was arrested for the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl on July 4 and is being held on $30,000 bail.

The Trustees of Reservations announced Tuesday that Great Point has been reopened to vehicle traffic all the way to the Great Point lighthouse.

Classic 12-meters battle it out in the 36th Opera House Cup. The race was won by Elska, skippered by Marc Feigen, in high winds.

Eric Lowell receives congratulations outside Saturday's graduation exercises in which 95 students received diplomas and over $700,000 in scholarship aid.

What: Winterthur Museum & Country Estate Traveling Exhibition: "Harbor & Home: the Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850" When: through Nov.

The front lawn of the Great Harbor Yacht Club, with the new clubhouse in the background.

A Westport man was arrested Thursday afternoon for the alleged robbery and beating of another man on South Shore Road on Nantucket.

A proposal by National Grid to increase the average residential customer's utility bill by 5.5 percent next year has come under scrutiny by the state Attorney General's office.

An foreclosed on property that was slated to be an upscale mixed-use project in Nantucket, Mass., will hit the auction block Aug.

A reader informs us he had the pleasure of running into one half of the spawn of Ponzi Nation just now.

The state Department of Public Utilities has upheld an $8 million fine against National Grid for poor customer service in 2006.

The New Jersey-based bank financing the renovation and expansion of the historic Point Breeze hotel appears to be in the process of taking over the Easton Street property from developer Bob Matthews.

Flipping Hollywood's Field of Dreams mantra, Nantucket's Dreamland Foundation tells islanders this summer: If you come, we will build it.

A group of Madaket residents opposed to the proposed Island Racquet Club off South Cambridge Street has appealed its approval in state Land Court.

U.S. orthopedic surgeons say exercise is a good thing for boomers -- unless it leads to injuries.

Twenty years ago Tom Scott was a 20-something juice guy who had parlayed a summer venture selling blended fruit drinks to yachts in the harbor into a multi-million-dollar beverage business called Nantucket Nectars.

A woman was attacked by two men on Hussey Street Saturday night as she was walking home after her shift at a downtown restaurant.

During the last week of June a group of yellow-shirted researchers from the University of Connecticut's Center for Transportation and Urban Planning will fan out across the Island riding buses, traveling on bike paths, walking downtown streets even riding the ferry to collect data about attitudes about public transportation on Nantucket.

A woman was attacked by two men on Hussey Street on Nantucket Saturday night as she was walking home after her shift at a downtown restaurant.

While they come from different backgrounds and were born 23 years apart, 95-year-old Louise McGarvey and 72-year-old Joe Aguiar share at least one thing in common.