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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Musical temptations and Irish vampires, oh my

1 week ago | ack.net | Sarah Wright

(May 8, 2025) Sunday afternoon’s community screening of “Nantucket’s Historic Coloured Cemetery: Stories Told by Nantucketers” showcased living history and oral tradition to a packed house of documentary film lovers at the Dreamland. Bravo to the Nantucket Cemetery Commission for advancing cultural knowledge and preserving Black history.
Full slate of music on tap this weekend

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.
Good Dish: Frenchifying Mother’s Day

1 week ago | ack.net | Sarah Chase

(May 8, 2025) A couple of weeks ago, some new friends from Los Angeles who were visiting Cape Cod mentioned a day trip they had taken to Providence, R.I. to see an exhibit on the art of French wallpaper design at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. I honestly did not know that RISD had a museum, but immediately knew I wanted to go to this exhibit before it ended on Mother’s Day, May 11.
Wait until Monday: Town Meeting adjourns after nine hours with short-term rentals still on the agenda

1 week 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.
Live Town Meeting Updates: Voters open by shooting down Cliff Williams’ Skyline Drive housing proposal

1 week 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.
Live updates: Our Island Home, short-term rentals top Town Meeting warrant

1 week 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.
Action-packed “The Accountant 2" a sequel worth watching

2 weeks ago | ack.net | Sarah Wright

(May 1, 2025) If your memory of 2016’s “The Accountant” is a bit foggy, join the club. And forgive yourself if you do not recall Jean Smart, John Lithgow and Anna Kendrick from the original. In the sequel out now, Ben Affleck returns as Christian Wolff, Jon Bernthal as his estranged brother Brax and Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Marybeth Medina. Medina works as the deputy director of the U.S. Treasury Department’s FinCEN, short for Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
Good Dish: Minty Mexican favorites

2 weeks ago | ack.net | Sarah Chase

(May 1, 2025) Unlike the onset of April, the month of May has a plethora of dates that offer cause for celebration. In addition to the abundance of blossoming May flowers that our many April rain showers and recent Daffodil Festival Weekend monsoon will no doubt be bringing, the month kicks off with the running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday, May 3 and Cinco de Mayo, May 5.
Millie's at the Rotary: West End Meets Mid-Island

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?
Good Dish: Daffodil Daze

3 weeks ago | ack.net | Sarah Chase

(April 24, 2025) While spring seemed to take its sweet time arriving this year, I can’t recall ever appreciating clusters of blooming daffodils and forsythia bushes as much as I have over the last several rather blustery but mostly sunny days. I’ve always much preferred daffodils to forsythia but somehow big showy yellow bursts of forsythia are managing to cheer me as much as any given single daffodil blossom.