Brad Marchand celebrated winning the Stanley Cup with gusto. You remember that Foxwoods event. He also got a tattoo with a spelling error. He fixed it, though. [Yardbarker.com] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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Mass Tank Sales Corp. of Middleboro will make offshore wind components for Cape Wind project. It could create 100-350 jobs. [Boston Herald] Two Cambridge Health Alliance staffers are suing their employer for allegedly not compensting them for working through lunch breaks. [Cambridge Chronicle]
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Fried Kool-Aid is available at the Big E this year. [MassLive.com] Nicole Collins of Peabody won breakfast with the Stanley Cup thanks the Boston Bruins Foundation. [WBZ] Big Boy, a 1,200-pound that lived at Russell Orchards in Ipswich for 12 years, died earlier this summer. Owners said he was in "hog heaven," which we think is slang for brunch. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
New York and Washington, D.C., are facing a terror threat related to Sunday's 9/11 anniversary. While there is no specific threat to Boston, we're panicking being extremely cautious and increasing police patrols anyway. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Sewage from the Winnipesaukee River Basin Line has spilled into Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith, New Hampshire. [WCVB] Mosquitoes in Shrewsbury and Auburn tested positive for West Nile virus last week. Each town will spray this week. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
The autopsy on 11-year old Celina Cass was conducted today and couldn't determine the cause or manner of her death. [WCVB] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
A hot air balloon carrying seven people landed safely on a Mass Pike onramp today after the pilot had trouble controlling it. [WWLP] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Two people were rescued from their car after it got stuck, upside down, in a swamp near the Auburn-Worcester line. The people included an 18-year old pregnant woman and her boyfriend. Twenty positive West Nile virus tests have been recorded in Massachusetts this summer in Norfolk and Suffolk counties. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
- Massachusetts is the second most energy-efficient state behind California. That's even including a record-setting demand for energy this summer. [Boston Globe]
Thanks for ruining our evening, Universal Hub. It turns out that the West Nile Virus has been found in Jamaica Plain.
The public may not be quite as freaked out by West Nile Virus as it once was, but the disease is definitely still around. WNV was detected in mosquitoes in Worcester on June 27, marking the first time the virus has been found here in 2008. There were six cases of West Nile Virus in humans in Massachusetts in 2007. People over 50 are more likely to be seriously affected by the disease, which is usually transmitted by bites from infected mosquitoes.
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