Outdoors

Maria Mitchell Association's Open Telescope nights
A few clouds is the forecast for tonight and then partly cloudy skies for tomorrow night.
With prospect of fairly clear skies with north-northeast winds on...

Goodbye, Uncle David.
My father died on Aug. 21, 2014 and it crushed me.
On Nov. 2, 2015, my brother, sister and I grudgingly put my mother in the memory unit of an assisted living...

Attending Nantucket's annual Town Meeting is an imperative for living on this island.
Equally vital to your Nantucket experience is witnessing the biannual...

As you no doubt have heard is recent weeks, Nantucket lost one of its most knowledgeable and beloved biological souls to brighter horizons and will lose...

As you no doubt have heard is recent weeks, Nantucket lost one of its most knowledgeable and beloved biological souls to brighter horizons and will lose...

The Blue Gloves Brigade (Nantucket Clean Team) opens its 2016 cleaning season on Saturday, March 19 with the massive cooperative cleaning of Coskata, Coatue,...

On Sunday morning, the dog and I walked east from Pocomo Point toward Wauwinet on what had to have been the calmest, flattest, quietist day up on the Head of...

The Board of Selectmen will continue their conversation on water quality at a workshop on Wednesday, March 9 at 6 p.m. in the community room on the first floor...

If you were on island during the first two weeks of Feburary this year, some of you may have been fortunate enough to accept the Maria Mitchell Association's...

I lost a close friend the other day.
Not to death or irreconcilable differences. The lure of the mainland took her. Actually, the siren call of Colorado...

(This is a re-post of Nantucket Conservation Foundation Science & Stewardship Department Manager Karen C. Beatties' Jan. 25, 2016 post on the Foundation's...

Come meet her at a special gathering.
As their email says, come meet the new star at the Maria Mitchell Association, Regina Jorgensen, who is new the Director of Astronomy at Maria Mitchell, on...