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NATION Sunday, September 5, 2010 A4 HERALD NEWS Earl's damage is largely financial holiday weekend plans up and down the East Coast. Boaters pulled their vessels from the water, shopkeepers boarded up their windows and vacationers canceled reservations. Some hoteliers reported that business was way off. Nikolakopoulos said her hotel was at 100 percent occupancy last year on Labor Day weekend. On Friday night, it was at about 20 percent.

She was hoping to recapture some of the lost business with a storm special that cut rates from an average of about $130 to an average of $85. Kishor Patel, owner of the Super 8 in West Yarmouth, said a number of people who had two-day reservations canceled when word of Earl started to spread. Business was down 60 to 70 percent, he said. "I'm hoping that it will pick up now that it is sunny and everything seems to be OK," he said. Alix Foster, 34, of Clifton said she and a friend decided to stay in a hotel on the mainland on Friday night instead of going onto Cape Cod as planned.

The two opted to continue their planned vacation after seeing news reports that the weekend would be sunny and nice. "The weather wasn't all that bad last night, but we didn't want to be stupid," Foster said. "I'm glad we kept our plans." Massachusetts officials were hopeful that last-minute vacationers would make up for the cancellations. Gov. Deval Patrick walked around Chatham on Saturday morning, proclaiming, "The sun is out and the Cape is open for Storm drove away holiday business By RUSSELL CONTRERAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YARMOUTH, Mass.

In the end, Earl's worst damage in New England was WEATHER to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note. The tropical storm, far less intense than feared, brushed past the Northeast and dumped heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages but caused little damage. It left clear, blue sides in its wake. It was the perfect start to a Labor Day weekend that Cape Cod's restaurants and hotels hoped to salvage after business was decimated ahead of the storm. "This traditionally for us is a sellout weekend," said Voula Nikolakopoulos, one of the owners of Tidewater Inn in West Yarmouth, where business was down 80 percent.

"I understand that we have to be careful, but I think all this hype was premature." Massachusetts suffered a few hundred outages, a handful of downed power lines and isolated flooding. Maine saw rain and churning surf but no gusts strong enough to produce damage. After sldmming past North Carolina and Massachusetts, Earl finally made landfall Saturday morning near Western Head, Nova Scotia. The storm brought heavy sheets of rain and swift gusts, toppling some trees and knocking out pow- Scotia village of Peggys Cove on beach resorts of New England ASSOCIATED PRESS Saturday. Tropical Storm Earl and eastern Canada.

BRIEFS 2 lauded despite forced farm labor HONOLULU Two brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human trafficking charges they pleaded guilty -but two former governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison. Alec and Mike Sou were convicted of shipping 44 laborers from Thailand and forcing them to work on Aloun Farms, for low pay and with few rights. Supporters say the farm may be too important to fail in a state that grows less than 15 percent of the food it consumes. 2ID'd from fatal UPS cargo crash LOUISVILLE, Ky. UPS has identified two UPS crew members killed when a cargo plane crashed after takeoff outside Dubai on Friday.

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Obama focuses on middle class WASHINGTON A strong economy needs bustling Main Streets and a thriving middle class, not just a healthy stock market, President Obama said in paying tribute to the American worker. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama on Saturday outlined what he's done to help the middle class, a group he says has been squeezed the most during the recession. Michigan town drops its police force CLARKSTON, Mich. A small town in Michigan, with about 1,000 residents, has eliminated its Police Department as a way to save money. The Oakland County Sheriffs Department began patrolling the village of Clarkston on Friday night.

From news service reports Waves surrounding the Nova caused little damage to most er to more than 200,000 customers in Nova Scotia. There were numerous flight and ferry cancellations. Police said the road to Peggys Cove village, near Halifax, was closed to keep curious storm-watchers away from the dangerous, pounding surf. As of 2 p.m., Earl's center was crossing the Northhumberland Strait, north of mainland Nova Scotia, and was moving northeast at 45 mph. The Canadian Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch for parts of Nova Scotia.

"It's a tragedy waiting to happen," said DiGirolamo, a father of four. "It's just unconscionable to me that a parent or another caregiver could possibly think of leaving a child in the car to go gamble." 2 inches of rain, while adjacent Martha's Vineyard got more than 4 inches. Hyannis, home to the Kennedy family compound, got about 4.5 inches. Peter Judge, spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, said the damage was so minimal that the agency didn't send out assessment teams as planned Saturday. "There's nothing to assess at this point," he said.

"It wasn't even a really bad rainstorm." Worries about Earl had altered were left unsupervised anywhere from a half-hour to six hours. The state Gaming Control Board last month warned the casino to fix the problem, and officials said that they have permanently Lawmakers irate over kids left in cars Charles Rogers Beds Direct CflMPMOR GEAR OUTERWEAR CLOTHING FOOTWEAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BENSALEM, Pa. A pair of state legislators are proposing toughening the law barring parents from leaving children alone in cars following a number of cases in which children were found in cars parked at a suburban Philadelphia casino while adults were gambling inside. Last week, a New Jersey man became the seventh person accused of leaving a minor in a car while he gambled at Parx Casino in Bensalem. Sixty-year-old Alexander Salter Jr.

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