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Scott Brown is in Massachusetts thanks to the baffling five-week Congressional recess and his visiting cities and towns, ostensibly to meet with actual taxpayers and voters. He's also getting boatloads of media exposure. Brown is the coverboy for Nantucket Magazine this month. The Track says Brown is a regular on the island these days as he plots his campaign to keep his Senate seat. more ›

Alex and Ani brings their bangles and other baubles to Nantucket. more ›

Celebrate Independence Day with Nantucket Style! more ›

Best-selling author and Nantucket-resident, Elin Hilderbrand releases her 10th novel today! more ›

Nantucket's 16th Annual Film Festival slated for Weekend of June 22-26, 2011 more ›

Serenalla, a top fashion destination in Boston opens outpost on Nantucket more ›

Darcy Creech, the woman behind the wildly popular Peter Beaton store on Nantucket doesn’t rest on her laurels. She didn’t like that a sizeable debit was deducted from her bank account every month for “credit card processing fees.” She launched Pay it Forward Worldwide (PIFW). “I wanted to make it easy and attractive for merchants to be able to support the charity of their choice without incurring additional expenses,” said Creech. “It’s a business model that is working because of one reason: everybody wins.” more ›

LunaFest, now in its 11th year, is a film festival that celebrates women filmmakers, supports women’s non-profits and raises awareness of women’s issues. In fact, 100% of all proceeds raised by LunaFest events (to date, more than $550,000) are donated to women’s organizations and charities, including a Breast Cancer Fund. For the second consecutive year, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket will present LunaFest on Nantucket for one evening only - this year, at the Siasconset Casino (a private tennis club in the ultra-quaint village of that name on the island’s eastern shore, not a gambler’s mecca), on Saturday, May 28 at 7 p.m. more ›

Whichever way you say it, A Toast to Nantucket’s 15th Annual Wine Fest! While Nantucket may not produce a fine wine, the island sure knows how to throw a good party to celebrate the best the world’s vineyards have to offer! The 15th annual Nantucket Wine Festival kicks off on Thursday, May 19th with an evening Gala at the tony, harbor side White Elephant Hotel. more ›

Four Eastham residents, possibly a family, went to Cape Cod Hospital on Monday morning after apparently suffering carbon monoxide poisoning in their home after the batteries were removed from carbon monoxide detectors. Eastham firefighters treated 13, 24 and 52-year old males and a 50-year old female. Three victims were since sent to a Boston hospital. On Friday, 11 Nantucket residents were hospitalized after a carbon monoxide leak. [Cape Cod Online] more ›

The Governor's Council approved our new Parole Board members. UMass Amherst's Faculty Senate votes next week on a measure to make the campus smoke free in 2013. Five Parole Board members resigned in January after a paroled felon killed Woburn police officer Jack Maguire. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

Finally! More news on John Kerry's yacht, Isabel. Thank God for the Inside Track. more ›

Rangers found skeletal remains of a human leg on a beach in the Coskata Coatue Wildlife Reservation. The bones run from the knee to the foot. The Globe says a sock and boot are attached. The remains were sent to the state Medical Examiner's Office for identification. The Cape Cod Times reported the find has rekindled interest two missing persons cases involving Nantucket island. [Cape Cod Times], [Boston Globe] more ›

• Hurricane Earl finished off Gene Ratner's Nantucket home. [Nantucket Island Inquirer]

• Wayne Johnson of Marblehead has to destroy his $1 million home because it blocks his neighbors view. [WBZ]

-- Nantucket Police recovered 107 marijuana plants and growing tools from two locations at about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Police said each plant could have produced about $1,000 worth of marijuana. No arrests were made. "We'll continue to look for marijuana grows in the future," Lt. Jerry W. Adams said. [Globe] more ›

--Nantucket antique dealer David Place was charged with the alleged illegal importing and trafficking of sperm whale teeth on Friday. Place was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston on multiple counts of conspiracy and violating a federal law that prohibits trading in illegally captured wildlife.[Boston.com] more ›

-- A Nantucket house painter allegedly killed a fellow painter after a drunken argument turned bloody last night. The slaying was the first homicide on the island since 2004. [Globe] more ›

Lyme disease cases are up 39% over last year in Nantucket. The island's rate of Lyme infection is abnormally high, almost on par with the island's other unspeakable affliction: opposition to the Cape Wind project. If only there were a way to coordinate the two epidemics. more ›

TMZ has some exclusive photos of John Kerry getting down with taking photos with college students in Nantucket. We hope he wore his flip-flops. At the "political" party, a girl clad in a green dress buddied up to Kerry and hogged the Bud Light, while her friends made excellent use of penis straws. more ›

--It seems like the only time news from Brockton reaches Boston outlets is when someone gets killed. That's true today as the Globe reports that a 15-year-old male was killed there when his 18-year-old friend's gun discharged. The Globe notes that the shooting, "...took place about an hour after Gov. Deval Patrick came to Brockton to laud local and state police for a surge of officers that had prevented any shootings since mid-February." [original report from the Boston Globe, more here] more ›

--Have you shopped at Hannaford recently? You might want to check your past credit card bills. They just had a huge data breach. Is the series of tubes on which we rely secure? [WBZ] more ›