next door to
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“Garden Grove families did not sign up to live next door to a major industrial chemical emergency.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
His parents were both teachers and “really solid members of their community,” according to Paul Thompson, a Los Angeles County prosecutor who lives next door to the family’s two-story house.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
Darbon has pointed to infrastructure challenges around practice facilities, while the long-term staging of the Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club - next door to Muirfield - creates further complications.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
Scotland's busiest railway station has been closed since Sunday 8 March when a blaze spread from a vape shop on Union Street through a B-listed Victorian building next door to the station.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
Before he bought the house next door to theirs in Fremont, Grandpa Ed drove around the country and stayed in places like this for years.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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