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Meet Your Neighbor
Laura Coffin
      Date of birth March 12, 1984 Likes most about Nantucket Knowing everyone and the number of opportunites available. Like least about Nantucket That it's a small town where it is hard to be private when problems arise.
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Nantucket Court Report
      Marius Babinskas, 28, of 44 Surfside Road, had Jan. 26, 2007 charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, failing to wear a seat belt and a marked lanes violation dismissed after paying all associated court costs.
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AT ITS MEETING ON MARCH 19, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:
      • Approved a request for surplus property declarations at 14A Sparks Ave., and on Kent and Berkley Streets and Cliff Road, as was adopted at the 20007 Annual Town Meeting. • Approved an application by The Summer House Bistro for a change of manager for their seasonal all-alcohol restaurant license for the premises located at 16 Ocean Ave.
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etcetera
1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends
      MESSAGE FOUND IN BOTTLE Of the 40 bottles with messages in them that Nantucket cod fishermen Pennel Ames and his 15-year-old daughter, Amelia, flung from his commercial fishing vessel, Kaos, on July 29, 2006 on his first trip that season, this bottle, above, was found on the beach La Palue in the town of Crozon in Brittany, France,
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Scientist hopes to spark student interest through "jolts and volts"
SCHOOLS
      Students and teachers alike should be ready for an exhilarating look at science when Dr. John Cohn visits the island this Friday. Dr.
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Small Friends raffles off minicar to help fund schoolhouse
COMMUNITY
      Imagine a car 106 inches long that weighs 1,808 pounds, has enough room for two people, gets 33 miles per gallon in the city, 41 on the highway and costs $13,900. That car, the Smart Fortwo Passion Coupe, the first of its kind to come to Nantucket, will be raffled off this spring by Small Friends of Nantucket to help the preschool pay for its new green schoolhouse.
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