Meet Your Neighbor
Thoai Tran
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Date of birth: March 28, 1965 Hobbies: Playing guitar, family scalloping, clamming, soccer, being with family Likes best about Nantucket: The quiet wintertime Likes least about Nantucket: The craziness of summer Favorite TV show:
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Fronzuto reorganizes to help town's Coastal Management Plan
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Answering the call of the Board of Selectmen for a coastal management plan for Nantucket, Marine Superintendent Dave Fronzuto is reorganizing the duties of his staff to address many of the board's requests.
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Field Notes
by Peter B Brace
      COUNTING CARS While crawling through downtown Nantucket in near-gridlock conditions last summer, you may have seen the minions of Milone & MacBroom, Inc. of Cheshire, Conn., the traffic consultants hired by the Nantucket Planning & Economic Development Commission to complete a summer traffic cong...
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Schmidt foundation wants new bus hub done "right"
Officials, citizens gather at meeting about proposed NRTA hub
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Asizable group of people gathered in the cold Monday afternoon for a brief review of where things stand with a proposed transportation hub at 10-12 Washington St. The property was purchased for $3.5 million two weeks ago by Greenhound LLC, an entity created by the Schmidt Family Foundation which h...
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WITH HONOR
      Navy veteran and former schools superintendent James Kelley and World War II army veteran Charles W. Pearl pay tribute at Sunday's Veterans Day services.
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MILESTONES
      FIRST BIRTHDAY M olly Anne Malloy celebrated her first birthday on October 24, 2007. Her parents are Tim and Carolyn Malloy and her brothers are Timmy and Matthew, all of Dover, Mass. Her grandparents are Ray and Marilyn Ruddy of Dover and Jack and Martha Malloy of Nantucket.
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SUICIDE PREVENTION FORUM SET FOR TONIGHT AT NHS
      Suicide prevention is the topic of a free teen-adult community forum set for tonight, Nov. 14, at 6 p.m. at Nantucket High School. Supported by funds from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, the program will feature talks by experts on depression and the signs of suicide risk.
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I ON SELECTMEN
      At 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 12 the selectmen held a meeting at 10-12 Washington St. to discuss potential development of the property as a NRTA bus hub. At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov.
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Hunter establishes Nantucket site of NorthEast Health Services
      It is not often that patients can request and receive house call visits these days, but that is one of the key elements of NorthEast Health Services which became established on Nantucket during the fall.
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Storm victims get busy moving their houses back
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Four Madaket beach property owners who lost crucial dune and bluff to the Nov. 3 nor'easter are gearing up to move their storm-ravaged houses away from the ever-advancing ocean. Realizing that the gaping hole in their summer haven is an invitation for the Atlantic Ocean to wash in and rip apart w...
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Industrial complex proposed for 3 Arrowhead Drive
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      One of the island's few remaining sand pits is likely to become an industrial park at 3 Arrowhead Drive if the Planning Board so chooses. Developers Gary Winn and John Brazilian, principles of WB Holdings, LLC, will be at the Planning Board's regular meeting tomorrow night, presenting their plan ...
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