The Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror

08/22/2026

🗣️VOICES OF NANTUCKET🗣️

Islanders, there’s only one more weekend of August! Time sure does fly when you’re having fun, or working all the time 😉

What reservations are you trying to snag as we head into the Long Winter?

08/22/2026

(Aug. 22, 2026) The Nantucket Edit, a new three-day luxury fashion and lifestyle event, will debut Oct. 9-11, bringing designers, local retailers, residents and visitors together for a destination weekend rooted in style, community and giving.

(Aug. 22, 2026) The Nantucket Edit, a new three-day luxury fashion and lifestyle event, will debut Oct. 9-11, bringing designers, local retailers, residents and visitors together for a destination weekend

08/21/2026

(Aug. 21, 2026) The Conservation Commission got an earful again from neighbors opposed to the Land Bank’s hotly contested proposal to relocate a portion of an access road near Cisco Beach. The commission scheduled a site visit before agreeing to tak…

(Aug. 21, 2026) The Conservation Commission got an earful again from neighbors opposed to the Land Bank’s hotly contested proposal to relocate a portion of an access road near Cisco

08/21/2026

🍽️LET’S EAT🍽️

The week we’re highlighting downtown newcomer Bloom Bar (“bloom” as in coffee as well as florals)!

Owner Dylan Cavaliere hopes to bring a little European flair to Nantucket with a menu that moves smoothly from espresso and fresh pastries to aperitivo and lite bites to family-style dinner.

Check out the highlights from our meal and read more at ack.net 🗞️🗞️🗞️

📸 Franny Giangiulio

08/21/2026

A town survey of residential properties is the strongest evidence yet that lone star ticks are now established on Nantucket and present across the island. The tick has been expanding northward across the country and can trigger alpha-gal...

(Aug. 20, 2026) A town survey of residential properties is the strongest evidence yet that lone star ticks are now established on Nantucket and present across the island. The tick

08/20/2026

(Aug. 20, 2026) The Dreamland will host a multi-media event Friday featuring filmmaker Susan Sandler’s short documentary portrait of Pulitzer-Prize winning composer and writer Ned Rorem "The Artist Must Grow Ever More Selfish," presented with a live…

(Aug. 20, 2026) The Dreamland will host a multi-media event Friday featuring filmmaker Susan Sandler’s short documentary portrait of Pulitzer-Prize winning composer and writer Ned Rorem "The Artist Must Grow

08/20/2026

The Muse will have to close for two nights next season and will have a four day suspension of its liquor license held in abeyance over the next year because the establishment served alcohol to people under 21 on several occasions at concerts this summer.

The bar and nightclub on Surfside Road, which has been recently revived as the local hotspot for late-night live music, will have to close June 23 and 24, 2027, and faces another four days of closure if any more liquor license violations arise through September 15 of next year.

More at ack.net 🗞️🗞️🗞️

08/20/2026

(Aug. 20, 2026) The days are flying past like dragonflies in the late August heat. The sunny skies are filled with the colorful zooming insects ever hunting for the next meal, while the night skies belong to the meteors streaking overhead as they bu…

(Aug. 20, 2026) The days are flying past like dragonflies in the late August heat. The sunny skies are filled with the colorful zooming insects ever hunting for the next

08/20/2026

(Aug. 20, 2026) Stacey and I once spent a stretch of a Mallorca holiday on a slightly unusual mission: to drink our way across mainland Spain without ever leaving the island.

(Aug. 20, 2026) Stacey and I once spent a stretch of a Mallorca holiday on a slightly unusual mission: to drink our way across mainland Spain without ever leaving the

08/20/2026

(Aug. 20, 2026) I told you we’d be back. As I said a few weeks ago, the island has way too many BEC options to do them all justice in one story, so we’re back with a part two.

(Aug. 20, 2026) I told you we’d be back. As I said a few weeks ago, the island has way too many BEC options to do them all justice in