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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GETS NEW HOME IN MARCH On Monday morning, March 3, the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce will open for business in its new location upstairs at Zero Main Street. The chamber has been on the second floor of 48 Main St. for more than a dozen years, but circumstances surrounding the proposed sale of the building prompted the office to move.

"We are so pleased to be able to stay on Main Street in the heart of downtown Nantucket," said Chamber Executive Director Tracy Bakalar, who is taking a brief vacation before the relocation. "After 14 years at 48 Main Street we were outgrowing our space. That, coupled with the insecurity of the building being on the market and only being offered a one-year lease extension with a sizable increase in rent, we chose to find a new home. NIR Retail heard about our situation and offered us a wonderful space upstairs at Zero Main Street. The new office has a great provenance going all the way back to Walter Beinecke. We look forward to a long-term tenancy."

The chamber's new and larger second floor office is on the left at the top of the stairs. The office had been occupied by the law firm of Philbrick and Avery, who are relocating across the hall in the same building. The Chamber's current office will be closed Thursday and Friday, Feb. 28 and 29, while the transition occurs.

The building at 48 Main St. is owned by Patrick Cauley of Breezin-up Inc. based in Allentown, Pa. Cauley placed the building on the market last summer with an exclusive listing through Patience Killen at Jordan Real Estate. The market price is $4,150,000. At the time, Cauley, who bought the building in 1993 and has a clothing business called Island Breeze on the street level, said he was unsure what would happen with his store if the property sold.

CONSTABLE INDICTED ON PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES Island resident Howe Constable has been indicted in federal court on charges of possessing child pornography stemming from his arrest last Oct. 25 by federal agents at his home in Madaket.

Constable, 53, who is being held in the Plymouth County House of Correction without bail, has a pretrial hearing scheduled in early March, according to his lawyer James Merberg.

"His status is that he has been indicted and his bail was denied," said Merberg.

Constable was first arrested in Barnstable after he left a digital camera that allegedly contained graphic images at a hotel. Employees of the hotel found the camera and contacted the police, who arrested Constable when he returned to the hotel to retrieve the camera.

Following that incident, officers from the Nantucket Police Department searched Constable's home on C Street in Madaket and found child pornography there.

ABREM QUARY RESIDENTS RECONFIGURE NARROW DRIVEWAYS After the initial elation of finally buying their own houses on Nantucket, some of the first residents of the Abrem Quary 40B affordable housing are finding that their driveways are too tight for their vehicles.

To date, five residents of the 3.6-acre Abrem Quary development, built by Nantucket Homes for People of Southborough, Mass., have applied to the Zoning Board of Appeals to make a minor modification to their driveways, said Acting Zoning Board of Appeals Administrator John Brescher.

The issue is that the driveways were designed as tandem driveways; single, one-lane drives that run along the sides of the houses. Residents with more than one vehicle in their households found that if one person needed to get out of his driveway, other vehicle owners would have to back their vehicles out onto the street so that the one driver could leave.

Rather than deal with the hassle of having to plan each drivers' comings and goings, Abrem Quary residents like John Harding and Bill Pittman applied to the ZBA for minor modifications to fix their driveways.

Brescher said that of the five Abrem Quary residents who have applied to the ZBA to reconfigure their driveways, four have been reviewed by the board and three have been approved to make minor driveway modifications. "Pretty much, instead of making their driveways stacked, they want to change them so they are side by side instead," Brescher confirmed.

Abrem Quary Project Manager Cliff Schorer said he expected residents to want to make changes to their driveways because he knew there would be problems with multiple vehicles parking at one house. He would have built the driveways so vehicles could park side by side, but the ZBA's approval conditions prevented him from doing so.

"The goal of that was to prevent the large number of curb cuts off of Field Avenue," said Schorer. "I was limited in the development to two tandem spaces per house."

Abrem Quary, the new name for the former Compass Rose 40B affordable housing project, had been hung up in litigation for six years before getting the green light in 2007. The 28-unit development got unanimous approval from the ZBAin April 2001. Most courtroom dealings stemmed from neighbors who wanted the density of the development lowered and did not like the conditions of

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