REAL ESTATE REPORT
      "Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either." - Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary The cold weather is finally here, Christmas Stroll has come and gone and now with only one month left to go, 2006 will lik...
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2006 Nantucket Noel Decorating Contest Winners
Chamber of Commerce
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Sounds of Silence at Musicall on Dec. 23
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      If you still have any Musicall gift certificates stashed away, you had better redeem them by Dec. 23 - on that Saturday Nantucket's only music store will close its doors for good. Looking over his dwindling stock of compact discs and records last weekend, store owner Charlie Walters said the same ...
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Abrem Quary 40B underway and selling houses
BY PETER B. BRACE
      Twenty-eight houses for Nantucketers should be constructed by July 2007 at the Abrem Quary 40B development off South Shore Road. Cliff Schorer, Managing Director of Nantucket Homes for People, Inc., said last week that construction is underway on Folger Avenue and that he expects modular homes fro...
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Cisco Brewers expansion more than half complete
BY PETER B. BRACE
      Out at Cisco Brewers, the metal-roofed distillery building is up. Retail/tasting rooms for the distillery and winery are also constructed as are, per Nantucket's building code, a three-hour firewall between the brewery's and distillery's new retail/tasting areas and handicap accessible men's and w...
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Old South Wharf's Miss Wear to close after 32 years
BY MARY LANCASTER
      To Marina Cholaki it is not a question of if, but when she will bounce back to the energetic and successful woman she has been for more than three decades.
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L E T T E R S
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      BOARD ALTERNATES RESPOND The following letter was originally sent to Planning Board Chairman Donald Visco and is reprinted here at the authors' request. Dear Mr. Visco: As you may be aware, the attached letter to Mr. Spriggs, dated November 10 in reply to his October 23, 2006 [letter], ha...
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West End owner has new plan for business
BY MARY LANCASTER
      West End Restaurant and Market owner Ande Grennan has a new concept for his property that is looked on favorably by the planning department and he hopes will be warmly accepted by his Madaket neighbors. For the last nine months, Grennan has been trying to sell the West End, which he bought three ...
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Land Bank shuffling houses to open up view of Lily Pond
1820s cottage is offered to public for the taking
BY PETER B. BRACE
      Having open space within an urban setting is fortune enough for most cities and towns, but being able to see it whilst passing by is even better. With that thinking in mind, the Nantucket Islands Land Bank is shuffling two of its buildings around to give people broader views of its Lily Pond prope...
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