The Inquirer and Mirror

The Inquirer and Mirror, often referred to as The I&M or simply "The Inky," is the official weekly newspaper for Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. This publication comes out every Thursday morning and has been serving the community since 1821 without interruption. In addition to the newspaper, The Inquirer and Mirror also produces the magazine Nantucket Today. Originally launched as The Inquirer in June 1821 during a peak period for the island's whaling industry, it merged with another publication, The Mirror, in 1865. This merger resulted in the creation of the current name, The Inquirer and Mirror, that we recognize today.

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Food Pantry launches fundraising campaign for new home | Happening Now | ack.net

1 week ago | ack.net

(June 19, 2025) The Nantucket Interfaith Council is launching a “Find the Pantry a Home” fund through the Community Foundation for Nantucket.
A book festival “Taste of Boston”

1 week ago | ack.net | Sarah Chase

(June 19, 2025) Of all the festivals and fairs that take place on the island throughout the year, June’s Nantucket Book Festival is one of my favorites.
Good Dish: Celebrate Father’s Day with some sweet and savory strawberry dishes

2 weeks ago | ack.net | Sarah Chase

(June 12, 2025) I realize I have featured strawberry recipes for Mother’s Day on a past occasion in this column, but the truth of the matter is that strawberries should really be incorporated into Father’s Day menus because the height of our brief but beloved New England strawberry season is in June.
DEP delays electric vehicle sales requirements for two years

2 weeks ago | ack.net | Colin Young

(June 9, 2025) The Healey administration said late last month it will not enforce minimum electric vehicle sales requirements for model years 2026 and 2027, administratively taking a step that lawmakers have repeatedly sought to force legislatively.
Good Dish: Spoonworthy and Swoonworthy Pasta

3 weeks ago | ack.net | Sarah Chase

(June 5, 2025) A while back, I wrote a column expressing my dismay over a difficulty in the sourcing of the tiny pasta shape know as acini di pepe, frequently referred to as pastina in America. Acini di pepe translates from Italian into English as “peppercorn” or “seeds of pepper,” and it is the tiniest of all pasta shapes.
Healey slams feds over island ICE raids

1 month ago | ack.net | John Micek

(May 28, 2025) Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said Wednesday she was just as surprised as anyone else to learn that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had arrested 40 people on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard in a series of traffic stops. “It was very disturbing, needless to say, to wake up to that news about that activity on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket,” the Democratic governor said during an unrelated news conference at the State House.
Census shows recent growth in most cities and towns, including Nantucket

1 month ago | ack.net | Chris Lisinski

(May 25, 2025) Most Massachusetts cities and towns experienced a slight growth in residents from 2023 to 2024, boosting the state's population amidst continuing concerns about outmigration, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.
Merroir and terroir at the 2025 Nantucket Wine & Food Festival

1 month ago | ack.net | Sarah Chase

(May 22, 2025) Ever since Denis Toner founded the Nantucket Wine Festival in 1996, I have strived to be a part of the uniqueness, education and fabulous wine and food fun it brings to Nantucket from many parts of the world every May. One of the newspaper articles I wrote and remember quite fondly was entitled “Days of Wine and Cherry Blossoms” since the festival almost always coincides with the profuse pink blossoming of our island’s numerous Japanese cherry trees.
Good Dish: My Kind of Memorial Day

1 month ago | ack.net | Sarah Chase

(May 22, 2025) This past Saturday, I decided to glance at Nantucket’s weather forecast for the upcoming week on my iPhone. The dreary forecast displaying the wind icon for three days straight, followed by the cloudy and rainy icon for another three days straight, was one of the few things that could manage to dampen the ebullient mood I was in after attending a couple of indulgent and bubbly oyster and caviar extravaganzas over the weekend at this year’s Nantucket Wine & Food Festival.
Fire at soon to open bakery quickly extinguished

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.