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Joshua Balling

Nantucket Island

Managing Editor, Digital Editor, Inquirer and Mirror

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  • 1 month ago | ack.net | Joshua Balling

    (May 18, 2025) The Nantucket Fire Department on Friday morning quickly put out a small fire in the Orange Street building that formerly house the Fast Forward coffeeshop and was soon to be home of the Slow to Rise bakery, slated to open next week. The fire was reported just after 6 a.m. and the fire department responded with two engines, the ladder truck and about a dozen firefighters, who made quick work of the blaze.

  • 1 month ago | ack.net | Joshua Balling

    (May 5, 2025: 10:36 p.m.) Town Meeting voters on Monday shot down all four short-term rental proposals, including one that would have allowed STRs islandwide with few restrictions, two that

  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month 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.

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