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A debris field from the plane that went missing off Nantucket early Saturday morning has been located in the waters south of the island by the U.S. Coast Guard. After searching 1,644 square miles, the Coast Guard announced late Saturday night that it had confirmed the debris field was linked to the Gulfstream G100 aircraft that had been traveling from Bermuda to Boston before declaring an emergency and losing contact with air traffic controllers. Aboard the plane were six people, including four Canadian nationals and two Bermudian nationals, the Coast Guard stated. The aircraft was registered to Latitude Air Ambulance,...

A Canadian medical plane traveling from Bermuda to Boston, carrying six people, vanished very early Saturday morning. No Americans were on the doomed plane, according to ABC News. The Gulfstream G-100 departed Bermuda at approximately 12:40 Saturday morning and plunged 10,000 feet before it lost communication with the FAA shortly after 1:20 am. The FAA issued a Search and Rescue alert, according to Fox News. Air Traffic Control Audio captured the moments before the plane vanished. The US Coast Guard is currently searching for the missing aircraft. Four Canadians and two Bermudians were reportedly on the flight. “You’re coming in...

Authorities are searching for a jet after it lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning. It is being reported that the aircraft in question is a medical transport plane. According to the United States Coast Guard, the FAA notified them that they lost contact with the Gulfstream “early Saturday morning.” There were six passengers onboard, USCG confirmed at 3:15 a.m. Saturday. The Coast Guard’s Northeast District stated about 20 minutes later that the Gulfstream G100, with the tail number #C-GRJP, was flying from Bermuda International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport when it disappeared off the coast of...

Strong crashing waves from the violent nor’easter uncovered a 19th-century shipwreck buried under Nantucket sand as the storm battered the East Coast with heavy rain, gale-force winds and coastal flooding. A pallet of waterlogged timber held together by rusted nails and strands of seaweed was discovered on a beach on the south shore of the famed Massachusetts Island Saturday, according to video shared by the Nantucket Current on Saturday. The wooden segment is believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a New Orleans-bound schooner that crashed on nearby Miacomet Beach in 1884. The ship, carrying cargo consisting of cotton and...

A church on Nantucket says it won’t host its Fourth of July readings of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights as America celebrates its 250th anniversary because of “our own whiteness.” Division has sprouted in the quaint Massachusetts island community after the Nantucket Unitarian Universalists announced that it wouldn’t be holding its annual holiday readings of America’s founding documents in “political protest.” The Nantucket Unitarian Universalists, which says it puts its “faith into action through social justice work,” is pointing directly to the Supreme Court’s ruling that electoral mapmakers relied too heavily on racial demographics to hit specific...

A lesbian minister in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is canceling her church’s annual Fourth of July celebrations in an act of political protest apparently against the country’s — as well as her own congregation’s — “whiteness.” Rev. Erin Splaine announced to her community Thursday that the Second Congregational Meeting House Society, Unitarian Universalist church would be canceling its customary July 4th celebrations, which include a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. “We came to this decision in large measure because of the recent gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court,” Splaine wrote...

They decked the halls — and each other. A ritzy Nantucket Christmas celebration erupted into mayhem as men decked out in “Ralph Lauren and Burberry” traded blows just moments after Santa Claus made his appearance, according to shocking footage. The wild brawl broke out on Federal Street on Saturday afternoon during the Massachusetts island’s 51st Annual Christmas Stroll, where hundreds had gathered to visit local businesses in one of America’s priciest small towns, the Nantucket Current reported. In dramatic video shared with the outlet, about a dozen men — ranging in age from 20s to 60s — were seen arguing...

They decked the halls — and each other. A ritzy Nantucket Christmas celebration erupted into mayhem as men decked out in “Ralph Lauren and Burberry” traded blows just moments after Santa Claus made his appearance, according to shocking footage. The wild brawl broke out on Federal Street Saturday afternoon during the Massachusetts island’s 51st Annual Christmas Stroll, where hundreds had gathered to visit local businesses in one of America’s priciest small towns, the Nantucket Current reported. In dramatic video shared with the outlet, about a dozen men — ranging in age from 20s to 60s — were seen arguing and...

The best things in life are free — but are they actually? Realtor.com reports a five-bedroom residence in Nantucket, Massachusetts — one worth $5 million, no less — is available for free. Yes, its owners are looking to give away the five-bedroom spread. But does that mean anyone can simply move into the Cliff Road dwelling located a stone’s throw from the ocean? No. In this case, a prospective owner has to move the home off its foundation and transport it elsewhere in the next 180 days. Each year, as Nantucket’s summer tourist season draws to close, a new season...

The sewage in New England's exclusive Nantucket retreat is full of cocaine, according to local authorities, who this summer began testing it to monitor potential drug use in a popular summer getaway for the rich and powerful. "During COVID, a lot of these communities, and most communities, decided that it was important for them to start testing the water to see if there were any spikes in COVID in the region." said Randolph Rice, a Maryland attorney and legal analyst. "But what Nantucket has now decided to do as of the beginning of the summer is to actually start testing...

An Oklahoma heiress has sparked outrage in Nantucket after renting a summer house and allegedly breaking the billionaire enclave's secret codes. Kylie Swanson, 36, signed a lease in the Massachusetts town and turned the rental house into a $3,800 four-day retreat called 'Camp Nantucket.' Her Instagram account is filled Swanson posing by with cobblestone streets, ocean-front estates and lighthouses, showing her followers a lifestyle that's out of reach for most. But Nantucket business owners who rely on summer sales told the Wall Street Journal the influencer disrupted them by demanding free products, comped hotel rooms and discounts for the camp...

"Hindsight is 20/20," said Nantucket's lawyer. Yeah, well, we told you so before you got into this mess. ... The Nantucket City Council and Nantucket residents are suffering from buyer's remorse, like everybody who decided to buy a Yugo based on the marketing that it was a great car at an amazing price. We told you so. It's as if liberals see common sense and choose to do the opposite of what it tells them. No amount of sage advice will dissuade them because some "expert" with dollar signs in their eyes can talk them into anything as long as...

A Nantucket homeowner secretly chopped down a group of his neighbor’s 50-year-old trees to carve out “sweeping views” of the Atlantic Ocean for a property he listed for nearly $10 million, a lawsuit alleged. Patricia Belford claims her neighbor, Jonathan Jacoby, trespassed onto her property in February and leveled 16 towering cedar, cherry and Leyland cypress trees — gutting her property’s charm and value to enhance the views from the upper level of his home. Months later, Jacoby put the four-bedroom, three-bath Massachusetts house at 3 Tautemo Way on the market for $9.975 million, touting the endless blue horizon, a...

That’s a crap load of partying! A summertime island hotspot off Cape Cod will start testing its sewage for cocaine and other drugs to find out when and how often residents are getting high, officials said. Nantucket health officials want to sniff out when drug use spikes — including seasonally and around holidays — to help folks with recovery outreach in the scenic town, the Nantucket Current reported. “Everyone’s got a good idea of what the [drug] situation is, but we have very little direct measurement,” the town’s human services director, Jerico Mele, told the outlet. “When we get away...

Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey is sounding off about her frustrations with ICE’s latest operations in her state, saying she found it "disturbing" to hear about the arrests of some 40 illegal immigrants in Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. ICE, working with several other federal law enforcement agencies, conducted a series of immigration enforcement operations in Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard on Tuesday. An ICE statement said "around 40" individuals were arrested as a result of the operations, including an MS-13 gang member and at least one child sex offender. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde...

Daniel Burrell was arraigned in Nantucket District Court Friday on a fugitive from justice court warrant, according to court records.A former senior adviser to John Kerry’s presidential campaign was arrested Friday on Nantucket on a warrant out of Las Vegas following the sale of his foreclosed mansion on the island, multiple outlets reported. Daniel Burrell was arraigned in Nantucket District Court Friday on a fugitive from justice court warrant, according to court records. He was ordered to be committed to Barnstable County Correctional Facility after not posting bail, which was set at $10,000 cash... Burrell, a businessman in private equity...

Agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency have been active on Nantucket this week, making several arrests of "violent offenders" around the island in unmarked vehicles. According to a press release issued by the Nantucket Police Department, the ICE agents were on Nantucket "to serve administrative arrest warrants for immigration violations. The arrest warrants were specifically for ‘violent offenders’. Among Nantucket’s large immigrant community, word of the arrests and presence of ICE spread quickly this week, and “caused panic for many,” according to island resident Esmeralda Martinez, whose parents immigrated to the United States from El Salvador.

The federal government has ordered the Vineyard Wind farm to shut down until further notice because of a turbine blade failure this weekend. Several beaches were closed on Tuesday while crews worked to clean up "large floating debris and fiberglass shards" from the broken wind turbine blade off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. A total of six south shore Nantucket beaches were closed to swimming due to debris that washed ashore. "You can walk on the beaches, however we strongly recommend you wear footwear due to sharp, fiberglass shards and debris on the beaches," the Nantucket Harbormaster said. Vineyard Wind...

Joe Biden was booed and heckled on the streets of Nantucket on Saturday even as people protesting the war in Gaza were kept far away from the president. The president's motorcade even took a different route from where he is staying - David Rubenstein's $34 million home on Abrams Point - into town to avoid driving past protestors gathered on the side of the road with signs saying 'Free Palestine.' A group of about 40 people calling for an end to the fighting in Palestine were kept down one end of Main Street in downtown Nantucket - about six blocks...

President Biden and his family have returned to their favorite Thanksgiving holiday haunt at the Nantucket home of billionaire David Rubenstein. Air Force One touched down at Nantucket Memorial Airport on Tuesday night, and the first family and their Secret Service detail immediately left for the 13,000-square-foot home at Rubenstein's 14-acre compound on Rabbit Run Road, the Nantucket Current reported. The Biden family will also celebrate the president's 81st birthday, which was Monday, with a traditional coconut cake, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday. Biden has a planned call with U.S. military service members on Thanksgiving...