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NANTUCKET POLICE BLOTTER
      Nantucket police blotter for the week ending Tuesday, September 8, 2009. Information provided by the Nantucket Police Department. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Islander runs for Kennedy's senate seat
      Nantucket resident Peter Zschau, 60, is taking his candidacy for the U.S. Senate to the people. This weekend, Zschau, who lives at 28 Friendship Lane, gathered 400 signatures at the Madaket landfill. He needs 10,000 Massachusetts registered voters to sign his nomination papers in order to be on the ballot for the January 2010 special election.
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Tradesmen, residents sound off on new HDC green building guidelines
      Solar panel applications are starting to appear on the Historic District Commission's weekly agenda almost as frequently as pools and air conditioning.
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L'Ile de France, the French General Store, to close
      In the winter of 2007, Joyce and Michel Berruet made their usual trip to France to buy items for L'Ile de France, their French general store on Nantucket. For most of the upcoming year, life was predictably the same as always, except that the couple began telling customers they planned to retire at the end of 2009 to spend more leisure time together.
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Salvager Joe Farrell's artificial reef idea draws interest
      Joe Farrell thinks he can help Nantucket with its erosion problems. He is so sure that sinking steel barges just off the island's east and south shores will act as wave-breaking artificial shoals that he met with the Army Corps of Engineers at its northeast regional headquarters in Concord, Mass. on Aug.
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Music-based therapy shown to relieve behavioral issues
      A special music-based therapy is delivering encouraging results in alleviating symptoms associated with several behavioral issues including depression, obsessive and addictive patterns and autism, and is available through local therapist and 29-year resident Carol Jean Butler.
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Harvard psychiatry professor writes book on mother's suicide
      The death of a loved one is always a profoundly devastating experience. When that person takes his or her own life, the event causes a deluge of emotions beyond confusion, such as undeserved guilt, anger and feeling abandoned.
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