Kaie Quigley

Cots are set up nightly at churches around the island to provide a warm bed for those in need during the winter months.

The former Nantucket Electric gasification plant on New Whale Street near Nantucket Harbor.

From left, Corbett Campbell, Rupert and Nicole Campbell, owners, and Jack Lax at the Green Lady Dispensary on Amelia Drive.

Bill and Kim Puder (middle) with President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House in April, celebrating Easter.

| By Kaie Quigley | The Inquirer and Mirror President Joe Biden and the first family will return to Nantucket for their Thanksgiving vacation this year, continuing a tradition dating back to the mid-1970s.

The USS Nantucket, nicknamed the Grey Lady of the Sea, became the Navy’s newest warship following its commissioning at Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston Harbor Saturday.

It has been a tradition for President Joe Biden and his family to spend Thanksgiving on Nantucket since the mid-1970s.

Nantucket Animal Rescue's founders loaded a 500-pound sunfish onto the back of a pickup truck and drove it up to a better spot to release it into the ocean.

Mary Chalke in her whale costume at the Milestone Rotary Monday.

Rain Harbison and Blair Perkins were patrolling the beach near Great Point last week looking for cold-stunned turtles, but that’s not what they found.