The Inquirer and Mirror

3 days 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.

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.