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Meet Your Neighbor
Anne Kronenberg
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Date of birth "Guess," she said. Likes most about Nantucket The peacefulness. Likes least about Nantucket The cost of living. Favorite TVshow Any news program.
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Brush fire consumes five acres on Somerset
Homes threatened; firefighter collapses
BY PETER A. SUTTERS JR. INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Anumber of homes along Somerset Road were threatened by a brush fire that consumed five acres of Conservation Foundation Property last Thursday, coming within 25 yards of one home and forcing the evacuation of at least five homes.
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Nantucket Court Report
BY PETER A. SUTTERS JR. INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Romeo Aguilar, 44, of 6 Celtic Drive, was arraigned on Sept. 9, 2007 charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and a marked lanes violation and was ordered back to court on May 27. Ray D.
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Mehringer plans to turn demo debris into houses
BY PETERB. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Houses trucked to the Nantucket Landfill today could be recycled into the construction of new ones. That is the motivation behind Nantucketer Greg Mehringer's concept for the nonprofit organization he started last week.
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AT ITS MEETING ON APRIL 23, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN:
      There is no regular Board of Selectmen meeting tonight because it is the fifth Wednesday of the month. The Board will meet this morning at 9:15 a.m. in the conference room at the Town Building for a special meeting to elect officers for both the Board of Selectmen and County Commissioners.
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Nantucket Memorial Airport Terminal News
      APRIL28 - MAY2 WEEKLYUPDATE Terminal addition steel framing goes up Steel framing members, connecting parts and bolts began arriving on the site on Monday and erection of the frame started almost immediately afterwards.
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1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends
      SUSTAINABLENANTUCKETMOVESTODOWNTOWNLOCATION Sustainable Nantucket is moving its offices to a new downtown location at 14 Federal Street on May 1. The office space is located on the second floor, and was once the former office of Nantucket's "first lady," the late, revered Mrs. Grace Grossman.
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MILESTONES
      C arl Lindvall has joined the Sanford Real Estate, which will soon be merging with Great Point Properties. Lindvall comes to Sanford as a second generation real estate protégé. As the son of Lucy Eaton, Nantucket's longtime broker of 20 years, Carl is excited to continue in the family c...
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