In the largest private home sale in island history, 42 Easton Street on Brant Point sold this week for a whopping $32.5 million. The waterfront estate is known as The Breakers and is located along the southern shore of Brant Point overlooking Nantucket Harbor. The property features 20,000 square feet of living space, 17 bedrooms, 19 full bathrooms, two carriage houses, and a 50-foot dock with the capacity for two boats. The property was sold as two units, each at $16.25 million. The buyer is rumored to be Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group, a private equity firm that is considered the world’s largest buyout firm. Beyond his business life, Schwarzman is an active philanthropist, having signed The Giving Pledge, a commitment to give away the majority of his wealth to charitable causes. His philanthropy has focused on supporting educational institutions, ranging from major gifts to Yale and MIT, to scholarships for underprivileged children attending Catholic schools in New York City, among others.

The so-called “ugliest building on Nantucket” – the town’s temporary trailer next to the old fire station at 131 Pleasant Street – had its permit rescinded by the Historic District Commission late last month. But while the HDC wants to see it gone – as  do many community members – it likely is not moving anytime soon. Nantucket’s Town Counsel from KP Law has weighed in with an opinion that the original permit granted by the HDC to the town to move the trailer to the Pleasant Street property falls under Gov. Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 related legislation. That bill allows local permits issued prior to the state of emergency to be tolled until it was lifted.

Rushell Harris, 32, of Nantucket and a former Nantucket Bank employee, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on Friday in Federal District Court. U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs scheduled sentencing for January 27, 2022. Harris was charged on September 16. The charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater. Sentences are imposed by a Federal District Court Judge. According to the District of Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office, Harris engaged in two separate wire fraud conspiracies in the approximate time period of June 2014 and November 2018.

• High temp: 67º 
• Low temp: 59º
• Humidity: 72%
• Water temp: 65º
• High tide: 2:59 p.m.
• Low tide: 8:21 a.m.
• Sunset: 6:10 p.m.

Captain Blair Perkins is an avid weatherman who has spent his life on the waterfront as a commercial fisherman, boat captain, naturalist, and surfer. His family business, Shearwater Excursions, offers oyster tours, cocktail cruises, eco tours, whale watches, kid’s fishing trips and more. 

“These kids are gonna be dawgs,” Whaler football alum Tyler Anderson commented on The Nantucket Current Sports Page yesterday. That just about sums up how the Cyrus Peirce Middle School football team has football fans on the island, Nantucket football alumni, and varsity football coaches feeling after a very strong start to their season, beginning their year 3-0. Eighth grade quarterback Brock Beamish has led the way for the Whalers along with eighth grade running back Amare Bramwell.

The Whaler field hockey team took care of business Friday afternoon with a 2-0 win over the Sturgis West Navigators. They improved their record to 4-5-1 this season and are 4-1-1 in their last six games. “We are playing well and it is nice to see some consistency in our play,” head coach Dan Weber said. “That hasn’t always been our thing. We have been really consistent. Even in the games we haven’t won it’s not like we have gone out there and laid an egg. The effort and the intensity has been there every game. I’m proud of them.” Lily Remick scored the first goal for Nantucket in the first half, her third goal of the season. Quincy Sullivan added an insurance goal in the second half. Goalie Maclaine Willett didn’t face a shot thanks to strong defense and persistent offensive pressure by Nantucket all game long. The Whalers will have a chance to improve their record to 5-5-1 on Tuesday when they travel to Nauset to take on the Warriors at 3:30 pm.