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Convenience Store Coming Astor

    The former site of an Astor pontoon boat sales outlet is being razed to make way for a convenience store.  Earlier this month, the Lake County Commission approved a rezoning of the SR 40 location to a planned commercial district, which will allow for the construction of a 7-11 store and the associated fuel sales that will come with it.
    County officials this week indicated the county has approved site work at the location.  
    The new store will replace the boat sales store, which closed after the death of business owner Monica Connelly.  The site had been operated by Monica and Dan Connelly as Astor Marine for many years, and prior to that had served as a restaurant.
    Longtime Astor Marine employee Georgia Palmer has kept the Astor Marine name alive in Astor, opening Palmer’s Astor Marine in town after Connelly’s death.  Georgia and husband Rick Palmer today operate Palmer’s Astor Marine on SR 40 at the River Road intersection.