Business & Technology

BUILDING BOOM

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Despite soaring lumber prices, Nantucket’s construction industry continues to surge. A little more than a year after the pandemic brought Nantucket’s construction industry to…

BUDDING BUSINESS

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Nantucket’s second cannabis dispensary is in full bloom. In a high-tech, subterranean nursery hidden twenty-four feet beneath the ground of a small lot near…

POWER PLAYER

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Former energy titan Jim Hackett discusses renewable energy, the climate and his family’s quest to fight mental illness. Nantucket summer resident Jim Hackett has…

BIG SHOT

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A cutting-edge Lyme disease prophylaxis enters phase one trials. In the late nineties, a highly-touted vaccine was thought to be the shot in the…

SILVER LININGS

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How some Nantucket residents found opportunity during the pandemic. For all its turmoil, the coronavirus pandemic has also been a period of tremendous innovation….

YOU’VE GOT (NO) MAIL

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The national controversy over the U.S. Postal Service arrives on Nantucket. Historically, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been synonymous with dependability. As…