TREASURE HUNTERS
Two women on Nantucket redefine the meaning of Big Dig. Nikoline Bohr and Karen Russell are definitely not who you’d picture hunting for buried…
SECOND HELPING
Island Kitchen keeps The Counter on Main Street cooking. Through a set of farmhouse-style screen doors at the top of Main Street, you’ll find…
SPEED OF LIGHT
Solar-powered e-bikes roll onto Nantucket to curb traffic and climate change. For more than a decade, Zach Dusseau and Tobias Glidden searched for a…
SOLVING AN AGE-OLD PROBLEM
How Erin Kopecki is changing the lives of many elderly islanders. Last spring, Erin Kopecki launched TUCKed In Eldercare, a concierge service of sorts…
PUERTO RICAN PROMISE
Nantucketers follow through with their commitment to Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria killed nearly as many people as the September 11th attacks. To date, the…
QUEEN OF NEPAL
In competing for the Miss Nepal pageant, Shradha Khatri Chhetri has a larger mission. At least twelve hundred homeless children roam the streets of…
A STAR WAS BORN
This August marks Maria Mitchell’s bicentennial birthday. On a cool October night in 1847, Maria Mitchell sat on roof of the Pacific National Bank…
FISHEYE LENS
How the Island’s only full-time, year-round eye doctor got hooked on Nantucket. Twenty years ago, Dr. Mike Ruby was juggling a demanding career as…
STEWARD OF THE SEA
Scott Leonard is on a mission to save seals and make Nantucket a Whale Heritage Site. From its heyday as the whaling capital of…
RISING FROM RUBBLE
Nantucket resident Carlos Castrello comes to the aid of his native Puerto Rico. More than six months after category five Hurricane Maria made landfall…