Tag: Nantucket (Mass)

Gray Whale, Long Absent From the Atlantic, Is Spotted Off Massachusetts

Researchers with the New England Aquarium were conducting a regular survey of the waters south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts last week when something caught their eye. What they spotted, a whale without a dorsal fin, led the researchers to think that it might be a North Atlantic right whale, a critically endangered […]

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On Nantucket, a Legal Maneuver to Protect Historic Homes From Gutting

On an island where the average home sale topped $4 million last year, Ginger Andrews’s scallop shanty is a golden ticket. If she had any inclination, Ms. Andrews, a fourth-generation resident of Nantucket, could sell the waterfront structure next week for a life-changing amount of money. The prospect is intoxicating — at least to some […]

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A Biden Thanksgiving: Sweeping Views of Nantucket Harbor, Calls About Israel

“I think he needs to do everything he can for the Palestinian people,” Mr. Butterworth said. But, he added: “I’m a fan of Joe Biden, so I don’t mind him coming. I think he’s doing as well as he can with all the resistance he has from Congress and all that.” The Bidens have been […]

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Hurricane Lee Approaches New England and Canada

Hurricane Lee was producing tropical storm conditions in coastal Massachusetts and Nova Scotia early Saturday, hours before its expected landfall in Canada. Tropical storm warnings were in effect for parts of Canada and a wide stretch of coastal New England in the hours before dawn. Hurricane and tropical storm watches were in effect elsewhere in […]

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Hurricane Lee: What to Expect in Canada and New England

As Hurricane Lee moved north through the Atlantic early Friday, tropical storm warnings were in effect for parts of Canada and a wide stretch of coastal New England that included about seven million people in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Lee has been spinning across the Atlantic for more than a week and was still […]

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