12 Feb, 2025

It was a very rainy summer on Cape Cod. How have businesses (and crowds) fared?

The Boston Globe Visitors filled parts of the Main Street sidewalks in downtown Hyannis just ahead of Labor Day weekend. Barry Chin/Globe Staff By BETH TREFFEISEN, The Boston Globe updated on September 5, 2023 | 11:51 AM HYANNIS – Walking down Main Street in the heat of summer lends itself to a stop at Katie’s […]

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Halloween headaches in Salem, Massachusetts: Traffic. Crowds. Tiny liquor bottles?

Local News Weary of the crunchy plastic carpet underfoot — and wary of their appeal to teens and closet drinkers — a growing roster of cities and towns is moving to ban nips altogether. Discarded nips are found at various places throughout Salem., Mass., on Oct. 22, 2023. Kieran Kesner/The New York Times By Jenna […]

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Beer flows, crowds descend on Munich for start of Oktoberfest

Festivals & Expos With the traditional cry of “O’zapft is” — “It’s tapped” — Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg at noon on Saturday, officially opening the 18-day festivities. People run to enter the 188th ‘Oktoberfest’ beer festival in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) AP By Associated […]

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Beer flows and crowds descend on Munich for the official start of Oktoberfest

Politics With the traditional cry of “O’zapft is” — “It’s tapped” — Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg at noon on Saturday, officially opening the 18-day festivities. People run to enter the 188th ‘Oktoberfest’ beer festival in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) AP By Associated Press September […]

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