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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: New England

New England stories: 19 news summaries
ANALYSIS

 GOP Bails on Its Feminine Side 

Purge of moderates will render party male-dominated

Nov 9, 09 4:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Rebelling conservatives pushed Republican Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York’s 23rd District because she’s a moderate. But she’s also a woman, and her ouster points to a toxic side effect of the tea party revolution: the closing of the GOP to all but... More »

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Rutgers • women • GOP • New England • Republican Party • Deborah Pryce • House Republicans • moderate • New York state • conservatives • Dede Scozzafava • 23rd District

 No Rush to Altar as Vermont 
 Starts Marrying Gays 

Fifth state to legalize same-sex marriage sees little demand

Sep 1, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - After 17 years together, a couple from upstate New York married at 12:01 this morning—the first same-sex couple to wed in Vermont. Today the Green Mountain State, which gave the US civil unions, becomes the fifth state and fourth in New England to allow gays and lesbians to... More »

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gay marriage • marriage • Vermont • New England

(Newser) - A long history of sparse employment and hardships of all stripes has built a culture of frugality that leaves Maine perfectly suited to the current recession, the Boston Globe reports. “Everybody now is into shopping thrift shops, but in most of Maine, people never stopped,” a banker says.... More »

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consumer • foreclosure • New England • recession • Maine • economic downturn • thrift • frugality

(Newser) - A camel named Josh has joined the ranks of backwards-walkers and wheelbarrow-pushers to become the first of his kind to summit New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, the Union Leader reports. Josh and his support team of two handlers, two horses, and a dog took 6 hours to reach the... More »

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New Hampshire • New England • hiking • camel • summit • mountain • Mount Washington

 Tough Times Threaten New England's Triple-Deckers

Foreclosures, neglect thin the ranks of distinctive homes

Jun 20, 09 5:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The distinctive three-decker homes found throughout urban New England are swiftly becoming an endangered species, the New York Times reports. The homes—mostly built around a century ago to accommodate new immigrants—were snapped up by investors in boom times who rented them out without doing any maintenance. They are... More »

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architecture • housing market • homes • foreclosure • New England • triple-decker

(AP) - An ice storm to compare with some of the Northeast's worst made a mess of the region today, leaving 1.25 million homes and businesses in seven states without power as it forced schools to close and toppled ice-laden trees and power lines onto slippery roads. More than half... More »

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New York • storm • New England • ice storm • snowstorm

Freighters Must Brake for Endangered Whales Off US

Right whale get federal protection from speeding vessels

Dec 9, 08 1:32 PM CST
(Newser) - A new US law may save the world’s 400 remaining North Atlantic right whales from their worst enemy—large ships. Mariners will have to slow to 11.5mph as they slice through parts of the mammal’s migration path between New England and Florida, the Boston Globe reports. Since... More »

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endangered species • Atlantic Ocean • New England • shipping • whales

ANALYSIS

GOP Loses Last Stronghold in New England

Himes' victory over Shays in Conn. completes Republican rout

Nov 5, 08 2:35 PM CST
(Newser) - With the defeat of Rep. Christopher Shays in Connecticut, the GOP has been completely routed from New England. The Republicans’ expulsion from the Northeast derives from losses in centrist districts, those where moderate Republicans like Shays could be expected to win, Fred Barnes writes in the Weekly Standard. More »

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Congress • GOP • House of Representatives • New England • Connecticut • Democrat • congressional Democrats • Election 2008

Vermont Begins Push
to Save Historic Barns

Historical preservation effort counts every chicken coop and corn crib

Oct 28, 08 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - To Vermonters, the aging barns dotting their landscape are as important to the state's character—and tourism—as maple syrup or skiing. But the cost of maintaining them and the decline in family farms have taken a heavy toll, the Boston Globe reports. Now the state is conducting a "... More »

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Vermont • farms • New England • preservation • barns

New England Pumpkin Crop Patchy After Summer Deluge

Heavy rains cut some yields by half due to bloating, rot and wash-outs

Sep 18, 08 7:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - An unseasonably wet growing season has devastated the New England pumpkin crop, the Boston Globe reports. The rain has multiple effects, almost all bad: some overwatered gourds swell so much they burst, while beds are washed out and depleted of fertilizer, leading to undersized specimens. And “pumpkins are... More »

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agriculture • New England • crops • Halloween • Pumpkin • rainstorms

GOP Fears Big Losses in Northeast

Dems likely to pick up
a dozen seats in Congress, parties say

Aug 14, 08 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Up to a dozen Republican Congressional seats in the Northeast could fall to Democrats this November, and the New York Times looks at some of the tightest races in the region, where a well-financed Democratic party has won ever more supporters. "There could be a dramatic political realignment in... More »

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Northeast • New England • Republican Party • Republican candidate • Democratic Party • congressional candidates • congressional seat • Democratic candidates

Global Warming Didn't Cause New England Tornadoes

Scientists link extreme events to bad weather 'block'

Jul 25, 08 2:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two tornadoes have ripped through New England in the last few days, killing a New Hampshire woman and doing serious property damage. But don’t blame global warming for the uncharacteristically violent climate: local climatologists tell the Boston Herald equally extreme weather struck the region in the ‘30s and... More »

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climate change • weather • global warming • New Hampshire • tornado • severe weather • New England • climatologists • Rhode Island

New England Soccer Team Subdues Passenger

He stripped naked on Boston-LA flight

Jul 19, 08 2:56 PM CDT
(AP) - An American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City on Friday after a passenger stripped nude and later tried to open an emergency exit door before being subdued by members of a professional soccer team and others, the FBI said. Members of the New England... More »

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flight • Boston • New England • airline passengers • airplane

 'Jaws' Visits Town 
 That Made Him Famous 

Beaches close as great white shark spotted (maybe)

Jul 11, 08 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fears of a real-live great white shark gripped the island site of the film Jaws yesterday, closing two beaches amid unconfirmed reports of a sighting, the AP reports. A plane searched the waters around Martha’s Vineyard off Massachusetts but found no sign of such a beast. Great whites are... More »

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Steven Spielberg • Massachusetts • New England • Jaws • great white shark

New Keller Photo Surfaces

It may be the first image of her with teacher Anne Sullivan

Mar 5, 08 8:20 PM CST
(Newser) - A rare photo of a young Helen Keller accompanied by teacher Anne Sullivan in 1888 has surfaced among a family collection donated to the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The photo, which was tucked away in an album, may be the first taken of the two and the only to... More »

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discoveries • photography • New England • blindness • archive • Cape Cod • deaf people • Helen Keller

Snow, Ice, Wind Slam Northeast

3 fatalities in Great Lakes; most in New England hunker down

Dec 16, 07 3:53 PM CST
(Newser) - The snowstorm that pummeled the Midwest yesterday has shifted its icy, windy fury onto the Great Lakes and New England, Reuters reports. Eight inches of snow blanketed roads and runways in Boston, causing Logan Airport to cancel some 300 flights. Three traffic fatalities in Minnesota and Wisconsin were blamed... More »

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Northeast • Midwest • New England Patriots • severe weather • New England • Logan Airport • snow

Winter Storm Pounds Northeast

Hundreds of flights cancelled in New York

Dec 3, 07 3:15 AM CST
(Newser) - The storm that blanketed the Midwest in snow and ice is now battering the Northeast. Wind and ice have delayed hundreds of flights at New York City airports. The National Weather Service said a foot of snow was possible in the mountains of northern New England, with the potential for... More »

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weather • New York City • Northeast • Midwest • New Jersey • Washington • New England • Oregon • ice • winter storm

New French Prez Heads to Primary Country

Finally off the campaign trail, Sarkozy plans vacation in NH

Aug 2, 07 4:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy will set aside French-US tensions when he visits New Hampshire on vacation this month. The trip to Lake Winnipesaukee appears to be purely leisure, the Boston Globe reports, but it may part of the new PM’s promise to improve trans-Atlantic relations. And the town of Wolfeboro already... More »

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Mitt Romney • New Hampshire • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • New England • Wolfeboro

New England Towns Mint Local Bucks

But utopian experiment faces some hurdles: like paying the bills

Jun 19, 07 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A cluster of towns in Western Massachusetts has created its own currency—BerkShares. The banknotes, which trade for 90 cents on the dollar, feature local heroes like Norman Rockwell and are accepted as cash at 280 cafés, shops, and even the local "chakra balancing" joint.  More »

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California • currency • New York • Massachusetts • Michigan • BerkShare • Norman Rockwell • New England • small businesses

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