Community Spotlight: Nantucket S.T.A.R.

Empowered

The Nantucket S.T.A.R. program stands for “sports and therapeutic accessible recreation. The organization, founded in 2003, is focused on offering inclusive recreational activities that support and celebrate diverse strengths and abilities through collaborations with families and community partnerships. The founders, Renee Gamberoni and Max Goode, recognized a need for adaptive

Alert: No Wipes in the Pipes

Nantucket Main Street

David Gray, Director of the Nantucket Sewer Department, recently reminded the community not to flush wipes into the Town or Sconset sewer systems (even if the package says they are flushable). They can snag and cause a pipe blockage. The Town has had to deal with between 2,500 and 4,000

Nantucket’s Special Town Meeting

Nantucket Cranberry Bogs

Nantucket held yet another Special Town Meeting in September, the focus of which was more articles related to short-term rentals. There were originally 6 citizen articles submitted which resulted in the Select Board forming a group of the article sponsors to try, once again, to come up with a “compromise