President Obama and family arrive in Martha’s Vineyard for a well deserved vacation later today. Yes, deserved. Congress has a five week break and Obama can't get a 10-day break from D.C.? He'll be able to govern just fine. He's also not the first president to take heat for vacationing.
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About 8% of MBTA bridges are "structurally deficient." [Boston Herald]
Good news: A judge has reduced a BU grad student's penalty for downloading 30 songs by 90%. Bad news: The new amount is still $67,500. [Boston Globe]
We say there's a better than 50% chance that the developer who made a gigantic hole in Downtown Crossing will abandon the project to build in Manhattan. [Boston Herald]
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President Obama and family are vacationing at Martha's Vineyard for the second year in a row. [ABC News]
Someone took a major fall at Fenway Park last night. Amazingly it was no one on the Sox roster. [WHDH]
Barbara Lynch's Menton has made Bon Appetit's "10 Best New Restaurants" list. [Boston Channel]
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Shh... The President and his family are vacationing on the Vineyard. [Martha's Vineyard Times]
Former Gov. Cellucci supports restoring the gubernatorial power to appoint a temporary Senator. [Boston Herald]
A local firm won't divulge the "secret ingredient" in their solar-power system. [SmartPlanet]
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Christy Mihos is counting cars on the NH border in hopes of making a bombastic statement about the sales tax increase. [Boston Herald]
Let's give this Catholic priest some credit -- at least he's accused of sexually abusing an adult. [Cambridge Chronicle]
Senator Kerry is partnering with "Shark Week" to gain support for a shark preservation legislation. [Boston Globe]
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The shark tournament off Martha's Vineyard may or may not purposely coincide with Shark Week. [Cape Cod Times]
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Hey, kids, get that nipple piercing now before you need parental approval. [Boston Channel]
Longtime Martha's Vineyard regular, Walter Cronkite, died over the weekend. [Cape Cod Times]
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The Chillmark home the Obama family rents during their summer vacations on Martha's Vineyard was hit by a small fire on Tuesday.[Cape Cod Online] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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Hurricane Earl is weaker than it was, and Governor Deval Patrick says it could drop to a Category 1 storm before it hits Massachusetts. Gov. Patrick did declare a state of emergency.
The Obama family is in Massachusetts for their Martha's Vineyard vacation. The Globe says President Obama needs a vacation.
New Hampshire is living up to its motto this week. They are serious about Live Free or Die.
President Barack Obama and the First family's summer vacation plans do include Martha's Vineyard for the second consecutive year. The schedule released by the White House Friday has the Obamas visiting Massachusetts from August 19-29. Last weekend, the Obamas hiked and biked in Maine. A family trip to Florida's Gulf Coast is planned for the weekend of August 14. [WCVB]
A fire on Martha's Vineyard engulfed the boathouse and pier at the Coast Guard Station in Menemsha Harbor on Monday. A truck and a 25-foot boat also caught fire. A 47-foot Coast Guard boat left the pier before the fire started. All boats were evacuated from the harbor. No injuries reported. [WCVB, Marthas Vineyard Times]
Martha's Vineyard is always a desireable vacation spot for everyone, even Presidents. That's why the news that president Barack Obama and family will be on vacation on the Vineyard during the last week in August was met without much surprise.
Although the Boston Globe breathlessly reported earlier this week that President Barack Obama would be spending the last two weeks of August on Martha's Vineyard, the MV Times writes today that they confirmed with a White House spokesperson that not only will the prez not be vacationing on the Vineyard, he won't be taking a vacation at all this summer. We guess maybe that whole "global economic crisis" is taking precedence over his tan. As the Times snarkily pointed out, the Globe story had no sources, just speculative quotes from Vineyarders, and "fueled a rumor that had been circulating on the Vineyard for weeks of an Obama vacation." Looks like the Globe was taken in by a case of Bored Locals Playing Telephone, a classic Martha's Vineyard off-season pastime.
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