Joshua Balling

1 week ago | ack.net | Joshua Balling

(May 8, 2025) Up for a little rock, funk and R&B? How about some Americana? Maybe the blues? You don’t have to leave the island this weekend. Cisco Brewers, The Gaslight and The Chicken Box have your musical needs covered. Pete Murano and the Assassins will play the Box on Dave Street Friday and Saturday with shows starting around 10 p.m. 21 and over. Cover at the door. Murano, the guitarist for Trombone Shorty, was born in the Northeast, but moved to St. Louis and finally settled in New Orleans.

2 weeks ago | ack.net | Joshua Balling

(May 3, 2025: 4:40 p.m.) Short-term rentals will have to wait until Monday. Nantucket's 2025 Annual Town Meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, with 16 articles still up for debate, including all four STR proposals.

2 weeks ago | ack.net | Joshua Balling

(May 5, 2025: 5:24 p.m.) Nantucket's 2025 Annual Town Meeting resumed at 5 p.m. Monday, with 16 articles still up for debate, including all four short-term rental proposals, after adjourning Saturday following nearly nine hours of discussion. Nantucket's annual exercise in citizen democracy, Town Meeting, kicked off Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. with the Our Island Home debate and a handful of short-term vacation rental regulations topping the 104-article warrant.

2 weeks ago | ack.net | Joshua Balling

(May 3, 2025: 8:10 a.m.) Nantucket's annual exercise in citizen democracy, Town Meeting, kicks off this morning at 8:30 a.m. with a proposal to spend up to $132 million on a new town-run nursing home and a handful of short-term vacation rental regulations topping the 104-article warrant. The Inquirer and Mirror is your Annual Town Meeting headquarters. We will provide a running update of the proceedings, with the most recent debate at the top.

3 weeks ago | ack.net | Joshua Balling

(April 24, 2025) Craving a Millie’s taco, quesadilla or po’boy but don’t feel like trekking all the way out to the west end of the island, or at this time of year, they’re still a month away from opening? You’re in luck. Millie’s at the Rotary opened April 3, with an expanded menu very similar to its big sister out in Madaket. Queso? Check. The Pocomo? Pork carnitas with roast poblano peppers, onion and tomato salsa? They’ve got that. How about the Muskeget, Millie’s signature lobster roll?