News and Events for Nantucket Island
More than 50 years ago, the originators of the first Nantucket Christmas Stroll were trying to encourage island residents to do their holiday shopping locally instead of traveling across Nantucket Sound to shop at malls on Cape Cod. That first year—1973—island merchants kept their shops open late the first Friday […]
For the past four years, Nantucket Island has had an honorary mayor. At the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Red Ticket Drawing on Christmas Eve, Town Crier Eric Goddard announced that Jason Bridges had been appointed the new Honorary Mayor of Nantucket for 2014-15. Bridges succeeds Patty Rottmeier, who had […]
