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For the past twenty years, the bank has supported the growth of area firms from real estate to law, to private businesses and volunteer enterprises in our community.

As Mayor Michelle Wu's proposals on housing and development face strong pushback from the real estate industry, her top planning official signaled a willingness to compromise on the details.

In 1962 at the height of the Cold War, a secret bunker was constructed for President Kennedy and his family on the southern shore of Nantucket island, Massachusetts.

The president’s Nantucket nuclear fallout shelter could become a National Historic Landmark—but efforts to preserve its history have stalled.

It’s not every day that the folks at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute implore you to watch Fox News.

So why does the departure of wealthy people matter to those who earn significantly less than $1 million a year? Let's start with philanthropy.

The Hatch-Kennedy model of policymaking provides an essential lesson for today’s officeholders: Republicans and Democrats don’t need to leave their political beliefs at the door to reach historic compromises…This is the animating ethos behind The Senate Project – a groundbreaking debate series launched by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation and the Bipartisan Policy Center.

The new Nantucket Cottage Hospital was debt-free and financed entirely through private donations—not a penny of taxpayer dollars was used. It was an achievement unprecedented on Nantucket Island. Among the many donors, small and large, one couple stands out as having led the charge: Bruce and Elisabeth Percelay.