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The first weekday World Cup match at Boston Stadium between Iraq and Norway is in the books! Other news we're following includes a legal battle developing over Gillette Stadium while the venue is hosting the World Cup. Plus, are Scottish fans drinking all of the beer in Boston? I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and these are your headlines. |
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| Are Scottish soccer fans drinking all of the beer in Boston? |
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Scottish soccer fans have been having a blast in Boston over the past week, with the “Tartan Army” taking over restaurants and pubs, taking a victory lap of the city after their 1-0 win over Haiti on Saturday and marching to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park on Sunday. They’ve also been drinking a lot of beer. So much so that some Boston bars ran out. Sam Adams says its Boston Taproom ran out of Samuel Adams Boston Lager over the weekend because Scottish soccer fans drank them dry. From Thursday to Sunday, it said the Tartan Army drank four times as much Boston Lager as it normally sells during a typical four-day holiday stretch like the Fourth of July. |
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| Recap: Iraq-Norway a 5-goal thriller for Boston's 1st weekday World Cup match |
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The first weekday World Cup match at Boston Stadium between Iraq and Norway is in the books! It was the first real test of how the World Cup affects traffic. Parking lots opened at 2 p.m., ahead of the evening commute. Here’s a look at the day’s events, from travel to the game. |
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| Most of us stay dry today but the rain catches up with us tomorrow |
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Top ten days may be behind us (for now), but today still stands tall. Highs will sneak up near 80 as clouds thicken in the afternoon. Some sprinkles may pop up along outer Route 2 toward Fitchburg, Gardner, and drift up to southern New Hampshire, but the rest of the area looks dry. |
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| Kraft Group takes dispute over Gillette Stadium licensing costs to court |
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A legal battle is developing over Gillette Stadium while the venue is hosting the World Cup. The Kraft Group, which owns and operates the stadium, says in a new civil lawsuit that the town of Foxborough has been dramatically overcharging it to renew the stadium’s entertainment license, though the town calls the new provisions a public safety necessity. That license is supposed to cost $100, according to the Kraft Group, but this year’s renewal in April was a pretext for roughly $1 million in new administrative fees, which come on top of hundreds of thousands in other fees the town inappropriately charged before. |
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| Person airlifted after Cape Cod motorcycle crash |
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A motorcyclist was flown to a hospital after a crash on Cape Cod Tuesday afternoon. Police in Sandwich, Massachusetts, said they responded alongside fire crews to the crash involving a car and a motorcycle at the intersection of Old County Road and Route 6A shortly after 3:30 p.m. The bike’s operator, a 65-year-old Barnstable man, was injured and in serious need of medical attention. He was airlifted to an area hospital, police said. |
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| Proposal would limit customers to 1 drink every 30 minutes at Cambridge bars |
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Forget blue cheese olives, could your next drink in Cambridge come with a 30-minute time limit? A proposed update to the Massachusetts city’s liquor rules is drawing concern from some restaurant and bar owners, who say parts of the working draft would be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce. For the first time in about a decade, the Cambridge License Commission is reviewing potential changes to the city’s alcohol regulations. The commission released an initial draft in April and shared it with licensed establishments on May 1. |
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