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Meet Your Neighbor
Sandy Oliver
      You read about islanders who are in the public eye all the time, but what do you know about your neighbors - those you see at the supermarket, the gas station, at school or just in passing on the street?
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Called a good neighbor, Schwartz compound said to blend in with Surfside
DEVELOPMENTS
      Canadian mogul Gerald W. Schwartz is building a low-impact family compound at the corner of Surfside Road and Nonantum Avenue that pleased the Historic District Commission with non-intrusive buildings. When Schwartz purchased 17 Nonantum Ave. for $18.5 million in April 2006, it included 7.
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White Elephant residences to fill four-block area
Owner-rental project follows industry trend
      Designed by internationally acclaimed decorator Alexandra Champalimaud, the 60 new White Elephant private hotel residences being built by Nantucket Island Resorts to fill a four-street block between North Water, Easton, South Beach and Sea streets, will please anyone who can afford the luxury units with spa,
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VOICES FROM THE BLUFF
SBPF Speaks AN INDEPENDENT SERIES
      This week The Nantucket Independent continues a series of interviews with members of the Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund to get behind the meeting rhetoric and to learn why they joined the fight to slow erosion of the
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Wannacomet gets approval for two new water tanks
HDC
      The Wannacomet Water Company earned two Historic District Commission approvals for new water towers at 43 Polpis Road and behind the former softball field in 'Sconset at the HDC's Aug. 14 meeting.
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Harbor House reconstruction begins after September 15
DEVELOPMENTS
      Take a picnic lunch to the large lawn at the intersection of Easton, South Beach and North Beach streets as soon as you can because come Sept. 15, Stephen Karp will begin construction of new Harbor House hotel space on this lot.
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OBITUARIES
      DAVID M. H. KERN II On August 17 the ashes of David Middleton Huger Kern II were buried in the garden of the Siasconset Union Chapel in a simple service for family and friends. Mr. Kern died on January 26, 2007 and was a resident of Culver City California.
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I ON SELECTMEN
      AT ITS MEETING TONIGHT, AUG. 22, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, CONVENING AS THE BOARD OF HEALTH, WILL: • Hear a request for a waiver of a penalty fee from the owner of One Love market. The health department levied a $600 fee against the business on Aug. 6, maintaining that it was open and making sales prior to becoming licensed.
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etcetera
1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends
      ONE LOVE MARKET TO OPEN IN FORMER MUSICALL LOCATION One Love, the Caribbean grocery that opened last summer in the Sanford Building, is reopening in its new location downstairs at 4 East Chestnut St., formerly the location of Musicall which closed just before Christmas. One Love owner Rohan Fowler is unsure when the market will officially begin doing business.
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