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Meet Your Neighbor
Miguel Sandoval
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Date of birth: July 16, 1965 Hobbies: Working in the house and yard, being with family Likes best about Nantucket: The close community Likes least about Nantucket: Nothing.
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NEW BLOOMS FOR HOPE
      Nantucket New School students plant daffodil bulbs along the Milestone Road Saturday to help replenish those originally planted by Jean MacAusland in 1974.
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LIVELIHOODS
Scallopers opt not to take Fridays off
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Given four days to mull it over, Nantucket's scalloping fleet opted not to push for a four-day work week in an attempt to raise the current wholesale price of $9 a pound.
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I ON THE COURT
Nantucket Court Report
      In Monday's District Court, Clerk/Magistrate Roxana Viera announced that Judge Joseph I. Macy was recently named to sit as Nantucket's presiding justice. Macy replaces Judge W. James O'Neill who took an appointment in the Barnstable court earlier this year.
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Salons on the move
R.J. Miller and J. Parave relocate
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      When you find a salon with staff who seem to know exactly how to care for and style your hair, you do not want to lose them. Although two of the island's popular salons are moving, they are far from closing and only changing addresses to better serve their clients and improve their businesses.
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SBPF reduces project plans by a third
Chooses cobble rock instead of railroad ties
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Deciding that a smaller beach nourishment project is better than none at all, the Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund is reducing the scale of its plans by one third. Originally proposing to mine 2.
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MILESTONES
      O fficer Nicholas D.P. Smith completed a nine-month training program and graduated from the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Academy on October 26, 2007. Officer Smith received his badge from his father, recently Retired Sergeant David W. Smith of the Nantucket Police Department. Nicholas is ...
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OBITUARIES
      ARTHUR E. ARNOFF Arthur E. Arnoff, 87, died on Nov. 18 at the Health Center in Essex Meadows Conn. Mr. Arnoff, formerly of Greenwich, Conn., had, for the last three years, been living in Essex Meadows.
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