Thirteen dolphins beached themselves on First Encounter Beach in Eastham and two died. Eleven dolphins lived and will be released in Provincetown. [Boston Globe] A Windsor man was critically injured Wednesday when his motorcycle hit a moose on Route 9. The moose survived but had to be euthanized. [Berkshire Eagle] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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The Cape Wind project takes another step forward after signing a deal with National Grid. [Cape Cod Times]
Boston stoners may be too high to remember their marijuana tickets. About 80% of the citations have not been paid. [Boston Herald]
The New Kids on the Block apparently don't know what year it is, because they performed at the American Music Awards last night. [CBS News]
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Massachusetts expected to receive millions in federal aid despite Scott Brown's opposition. [Boston Globe]
The Commonwealth's pension funds will be required to divest companies that do business with Iran. [Gov Monitor]
Desperate much? Mass Lottery profits increased by $44 million. [MyFoxBoston]
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Maybe the BC students involved in an April Green Line accident weren't as guilty as they appeared. [Boston Globe]
Smart phones are popular items among thieves on the T, and transit crime stats are on the rise this year. [Boston Herald]
Last year a new law was passed to increase the fine for parking in bus stop zones, but enforcement has been lacking. [Boston Globe]
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Not all bulldogs will attack, but when was the last time you heard of a vicious terrier mauling? [Patriot Ledger]
There should be a term for someone who waits 24 hours outside on Boylston Street for an iPhone when he had pre-ordered it: "iDiot." [WBZ]
State legislators will vote today on a new budget without the anticipated $687 million in federal assistance. [Boston Globe]
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The FBI is in the process of releasing their files on Ted Kennedy, and the first batch is about 3,000 pages. [Boston Globe]
A shipwrecked British ship from Revolutionary War era has been partially uncovered near Provincetown. [Cape Cod Times]
Sarah Palin is partying with teabaggers in Boston this week, but Scott Brown is flaking on his most enthusiastic supporters. [Boston Herald]
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Five Barnstable High School students were sent to Cape Cod Hospital after sustaining non-life-threatening injuries when a rogue wave hit their whale watching boat off Provincetown Monday. The harbormaster said the boat, called the Whale Watcher, was out of Hyannis harbor. The boat was back at McMillian Wharf already. The students were on a science field trip. [WCVB], [WHDH]
- The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is incomplete due to state budget cuts and "flat donations." [Boston Globe]
- Margaret Marshall, the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, is retiring in October after 11 years. Marshall was the first female Chief Justice in Massachusetts. [WCVB]
Dogs love Provincetown. Dog Fancy magazine named Provincetown the country's most dog-friendly city as part of the 2010 DogTown USA competition.
The contest is based on criteria including dog parks, vet care, and pro-pet laws.
Ernie Slone, Dog Fancy editor, wrote about Provincetown's assets for dogs: "...it is remarkable to have an entire town where virtually every establishment opens its doors to dogs - even the bank." Slone said Provincetown had the nation's second-best dog park in the Pilgrim Bark Park.
- A year after their well-publicized confrontation, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley were both blamed for the incident. An independent Cambridge review committee determined the incident was “avoidable” and each man had “opportunities" to avoid what took place. [WCVB]
- Beth Singer, the Provincetown School Superintendent, issued a public apology for the school's new condom policy. She pledged to revise the policy. [Cape Cod Times]
- Animal experts on Cape Cod are concerned about the impact the BP oil spill will have on endangered wildlife that comes to Cape Cod. [Cape Cod Online]
- Provincetown's school committee will reconsider making free condoms available to all students. [Boston Globe]
- Nine Nantucket beaches are closed to swimming due to bacteria. [Boston Herald]
Provincetown's school committee voted to allow every student, apparently even first-graders, to obtain condoms at school, beginning in September. There are currently 152 students in the entire Provincetown school district. The school committee doesn't expect first-graders to actually ask for condoms. "We didn't want to pick an age, and I really don't believe we're going to get first-graders asking for a condom, as a practical matter," school committee chairman Peter Grosso said. Gov. Deval Patrick doesn't like it. Bostonist is okay with schools giving kids access to condoms, and also providing appropriate sex education. We also know first-graders who really shouldn't be aware of what a condom is used for. [Cape Cod Times]
- Bars in Provincetown might be open for business until 1:45 a.m. if the Provincetown Licensing Board gets its way. [Cape Cod Times]
- Sandwich is dealing with having what is apparently considered a funny name. [Cape Cod Times]
Renowned author, quasi-pugilist, and wife-stabber Norman Mailer was a longtime resident of Provincetown. This summer, dozens of lucky writers are honing their craft in Mailer’s former home there. It's the inaugural year of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Here’s a little about how that colony came to be, as well as how it’s going this summer.
-- Deanna Watkins, a 29-year-old mother, was shot to death Thursday night in front of her children at their home in Mattapan. Watkins had a troubled history, having drifted in and out of homeless shelters, and police believe that she was targeted by the masked gunman who killed her. [Herald; BPDNews]
-- Fears that gang violence is on the rise in Boston's southern neighborhoods seemed justified as police revealed that Monday's shooting of a five-month-old baby in Mattapan may have been part of a cycle of retaliatory killings between rival Jamaica Plain gangs. Police believe that the shooting, which left Alianna Peguero in the hospital, may have been a retaliation for the April killing of Luis Troncoso on a basketball court in JP. The Troncoso killing, in turn, is said to have been revenge for the death of Peguero's 20-year-old half-brother, Alan Peguero, last September. Police have hit a wall in the investigation, citing the Peguero family's unwillingness to cooperate. Meanwhile, Bostonians wonder when and where the next battle in this gang war will break out. [Globe]
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