Nantucket

Joe Biden is wrapping up his final Thanksgiving holiday as president on Nantucket, a family tradition that this year seems to be part of a broader farewell to his time in the White House. The Democrat’s four years as president will be bookended by Republican Donald Trump, whose Cabinet nominations, tariff threats and glitzy evenings at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida club,...

President Joe Biden arrived on Nantucket on Tuesday evening ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, which has been a longstanding tradition for the Biden family. The president, alongside first lady Jill Biden, departed Washington Tuesday afternoon and arrived around 6 p.m. Earlier, the president delivered remarks in the Ros Garden announcing a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah. The Bidens began...

A man has died after being pulled from a fire, along with a dog, at a Nantucket home this week, local and Massachusetts officials said Thursday. Peter Gurley, 62, was rushed to the hospital from his burning home on Green Meadows Drive on Tuesday night about 7:30 p.m. but later died, according to state and local firefighters, local police and...

Two Nantucket fishermen made a life-saving catch this weekend, saving a frantic fellow fisherman clinging to what was left of his capsized boat.

Crews started this week to retrieve and remove pieces of the shattered Vineyard Wind turbine blade that sunk to the ocean floor three months ago, a project that the company said could take as long as two weeks. Vineyard Wind sent a “mariner update” Wednesday to caution boaters, fishing outfits and anyone else on the waters that a 250-foot crane...

The Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations office announced the arrest of a man on multiple counts of sex crimes against a minor on Nantucket. Elmer Sola, 49, of El Salvador, was arrested Sept. 10 in Nantucket by ERO Boston officers. Authorities say Sola was in the country illegally and is charged with 11 counts of sex crimes against a child….

A diner on Nantucket, Massachusetts, sold its third lottery ticket worth $1 million or more in just six months. Sean Durnin was the latest Old South Diner customer to hit the jackpot, becoming the first winner of the $1 million grand prize in the state lottery’s new “$10,000 Bonanza” $20 instant game, the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission said. He claimed…

More debris could wash up on Nantucket, Massachusetts, beaches after parts of the remaining hanging sections of the wind turbine detached from the hub, town officials said Sunday. “The controlled detachment follows a series of exercises conducted late last week to pitch the blade, which, in combination with storm winds, led to the safe separation of the sections below the…

Solutions to the ongoing turbine trouble off Nantucket could be on the way. This comes as the remaining part of the damaged blade could fall into the ocean at any time. A lot of concerns were expressed during Wednesday night’s select board meeting on Nantucket, but much of the focus was on GE Vernova, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and...

A seagull is on the lam after stealing a man’s wallet on Nantucket. After a day of fishing on the Massachusetts island, Noah Karberg was headed home when his wife called him, asking him to run to Stop & Shop to pick up groceries. “I was in a fishing shirt and board shorts, so no pockets,” he said Tuesday....

CORRECTION (July 30, 2024, 9:58 a.m.): An earlier version of this story misstated the cause of the new debris washing up on Nantucket. A second wind turbine blade has not broken. More debris has washed up on beaches in Nantucket, Massachusetts, after a wind turbine blade broke. Nantucket town leaders and residents are frustrated amid the latest effort to keep…

As Vineyard Wind deals with the fallout from the Nantucket turbine incident earlier this month, they’re in federal appeals court this morning fighting to keep their permit.

The push continues to renegotiate the Nantucket offshore wind project, which has created major concerns for residents this month.

As the cleanup and investigation continue into the Vineyard Wind incident earlier this month, and the project remains shut down, a “manufacturing deviation” is being blamed for a blade breaking off one of the turbines and sending debris onto Nantucket beaches.  “Some of the adhesives that are supposed to work for the blade did not do their job,” said GE…

More debris from the broken wind turbine was found on Nantucket over the weekend. Vineyard Wind, a joint venture of Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, says it received a report on Sunday that debris from the damaged wind turbine blade was washed up near Madequecham Valley Road, south of Nantucket Memorial Airport. Beach crews were “immediately dispatched” to that location…

Fiberglass and foam debris that could fill six trucks has been recovered so far on and around Nantucket as work continues to collect the fragments of a wind blade that was mysteriously damaged on Saturday night. The offshore wind developer Vineyard Wind said Wednesday that 17 cubic yards of debris has been removed from the island’s southern shoreline along with…

Operations at Vineyard Wind, the first offshore installation to provide clean power to Massachusetts and the region, are suspended after an incident over the weekend spread wind blade debris across Nantucket beaches. Three days after a turbine being tested south of the islands experienced some kind of still-unspecified “incident,” federal safety officials said Tuesday that work at Vineyard Wind is “shut...

As Nantucket ramps up for its busiest time of the year, there is uncertainty about where everyone who visits will stay. Residents of the Massachusetts island voted at the annual town meeting Tuesday to oppose a measure that, according to The Boston Globe, would have broadly legalized short-term rentals. The failure of Article 59 means the debate will continue over…

Two men searching for deer antler sheds Thursday in Nantucket, Massachusetts, discovered human remains, according to authorities. Police received a call just after 5 p.m. about human remains being found near the east end of the island, Nantucket police said Friday. When officers arrived, they located the remains in the dense woodland off Milestone Road, according to police. “The scene…

Some students in Nantucket, Massachusetts, were seen in a photo holding up what appears to be a “very inappropriate” racial slur, the district said Tuesday. “We are sending you this message because it is essential that you know — students, parents, and Nantucket community members — that we do not condone nor will we tolerate any racial slurs or racist…