Battle of Bunker Hill re enactment near Charlestown site
WEST NEWBURY MASS UPI History repeats this week as a Bicentennial re enactment recreates the Battle of Bunker Hill on a 10acre school site near Charlestown with 500 mock-Yankee and Redcoat soldiers. About 10 000 spectators are hoped for on an adjoining hill while trenches and redoubts are laid out to be historically accurate. The June 12 replay uses weapon permits under Massachusetts gun laws. the real battle occurred June 17 1775 on Breed s Hill with Col William Prescott’s warning.
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Mass
UPI
Bunker Hill
Charlestown
Boston
Massachusetts
Breed’s Hill
William Prescott
Rhode Island
Nathanael Greene
Thomas Gage
North America
Lexington
Concord
Cambridge
Marblehead to Watertown race ends with cheaters ruling
In Marblehead and Watertown a charity Great Race drew 2300 entrants who were all disqualified for cheating. The event featured eclectic conveyances and massive spectator turnout with funds sent to regional and national charities.
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Marblehead
Watertown
Mass
UPI
Paul Samelchuck
Herbert McMahon
Red tide mystery deepens as four toxins found
Scientists at the University of Rhode Island identify four toxins in red tide algae that poisoned shellfish along New England. They caution the antidote remains elusive and say more toxins may exist. The outbreak spurred monitoring systems after 1972 and 1974 incidents, with Maine clamdiggers and workers in the seafood industry affected by unemployment and warnings to avoid shellfish.
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Kingston
R.I
UPI
Maine
New England
Yuruzu Shimizu
University of Rhode Island
Shimizu
Massachusetts
Thomas F. McLoughlin
Environmental Health
Bay State
North Shore
McLoughlin
Cesaria Farelli
St. Leonard
Quebec
Rye Beach
N.H
Lowell
Mass
Department of Natural Resources
Kenneth Curtis
Curtis
GOP push to delay New Hampshire Senate seating run-off
Washington Reuters United Press International reports Senate Republicans seek extended debate hours or days on the New Hampshire disputed Senate race between Louis C. Wyman and John A. Durkin. The fight centers on which body should decide the seat after a series of recounts and ballot reviews, with Democrats preferring federal resolution and Republicans pressing to return the issue to New Hampshire.
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UPI
Senate
New Hampshire
Louis C. Wyman
John A. Durkin
Wyman
Durkin
Rules Committee
James B. Allen
D-Ala
Allen
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