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Twenty years before, on Oct. 10, 1989, the Town of Arlington and the Mirak family found a way to preserve the Jefferson Cutter House by picking it up, placing it on timbers and rolling it down the town’s main artery. “It was a triumph,” said Bob Mirak,...
Tags: John Mirak, Alan McClennen, Aretmis Mirak, Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Bob Mirak, Mirak Chevrolet, Arlington Chamber of Commerce, Jefferson Cutter House, Arlington Historical Commission, Massachusetts, Nantucket, Arlington County Virginia, Arlington Massachusetts, Russell Common, Armenian people, Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, Middlesex County Massachusetts
Balmy temperatures are making it feel more like spring than December in Massachusetts after an overnight storm swept through, causing high winds and some coastal flooding. The National Weather Service said the temperature in Boston reached a record 69...
Tags: Nantucket, Weather, Disaster Accident, Environment, Blizzards, The Woods Hole Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, Effects of Hurricane Noel in the United States, Hyannis Massachusetts, Barnstable County Massachusetts, Ferry, Gale warning, Wind
National Grid Plc and Cape Wind have agreed to enter negotiations for a long-term contract under which the power utility operator would buy power generated by Cape Wind's proposed offshore wind farm, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said on Wednesday....
Tags: Cape Wind, wind farm, nantucket sound, Nantucket, Nantucket Massachusetts, Wind power, Martha's Vineyard, Environment, Cape Cod, Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, Politics, Business Finance, Wind power in the United States
The 24,000-square-foot office building, which houses the JPMorgan Chase bank, was purchased by Investors Warranty of America for $12.5 million, according to the Palm Beach County Clerk & Comptrollers' Office. Investors Warranty and Transamerica Life Insurance,...
Tags: Bob Matthews, Royal Palm Way, Investors Warranty of America, foreclosure auction, investor warranty, Nantucket, Mortgage, Foreclosure, Palm Beach, Business Finance, Hospitality Recreation, Real property law
While sailing the Sea of Cortez, waiting for sperm whales to appear, I read "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex." This book by Nathaniel Philbrick gives a contemporary version of what happened when a male sperm whale, judged by...
Tags: sperm whale, Whaleship Essex, whale ship, feet long, Nathaniel Philbrick, Sea of Cortez, Nantucket, Moby-Dick, Whale, Megafauna, Essex, Cetaceans, Whaling, Sperm whales
Sunday, Nov 29, 2009 18:01 PST At 34 years old, I finally feel like a popular seventh-grader...While I wait, I chat with Alison, who, years ago, stole my pants during gym and cut a hole in the crotch area, and who needs advice on how to sleep-train her...
Tags: best friend, Barbara, Nantucket, Incuyo, Human Interest, Jim Zwerg
N either driving rain nor blustery winds could keep Black Friday bargain hunters from swarming area malls in yesterday’s kickoff to the holiday shopping season. Flooding on Storrow Drive westbound near Copley Plaza resulted in at least one accident when...
Tags: Nantucket, Weather, U.S. Route 1 in Massachusetts, National Weather Service, Disaster Accident, Traffic
Daily News Staff Writer Sunday, November 22, 2009 For real estate investor Bob Matthews, 2009 has been "a humbling year." Matthews, who lost the Palm House hotel in Palm Beach and another resort in Nantucket, talked about his financial troubles Friday...
Tags: Mia Matthews, Bob Matthews, Matthewses' Point Breeze Club, real estate, West Palm Beach, The Palm Beach Post, Heart of Palm Beach, Palm House, Glenn Straub, Nantucket, Nantucket Massachusetts, Foreclosure, Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Straub, Hospitality Recreation, West Palm Beach Florida, Tropics, Palm Beach County Florida
The Coast Guard says a New Bedford fishing boat became rapidly unstable as a full fishing net was lowered on deck, causing it to sink and kill its captain a year ago. The Coast Guard said Friday that its investigation showed the 71-foot dragger Costa...
Tags: Coast Guard, fishing boat, Nantucket, United States Coast Guard ships, Disaster Accident
For year-round residents of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, it was an eagerly anticipated rite of fall: On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, two proudly independent communities tussled for bragging rights in the season-ending high school football matchup....
Tags: Nantucket, islanders cup, Chris Maury, athletic directors, Vito Capizzo, Oak Bluffs Massachusetts, Hyannis Massachusetts, Ferry, Nantucket High School, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County Massachusetts, Nantucket Massachusetts, allnews