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About 2 million visitors pass through Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor during a short tourist season.

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A five-hour drive from Boston, the area’s economy relies on visitors who plan to stay overnight or longer.

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September and October revenues are estimated at about 30 percent of what local businesses bring in each year.

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Said Tara Harbert, a national park ranger at Acadia: “We love being back to work.”

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At Quality Inn, sales fell about $15,000 compared with last year’s, said general manager Nancy Tibbetts.

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The government shutdown coincided with the peak of the fall season, including the long Columbus Day weekend.

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Said Fergus Cullen, former Republican Party chairman in New Hampshire: “Every Republican will get slaughtered. They will all suffer for the sins of one or two.”

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More than two years after a tornado devastated Monson, the steeple was a sign that things had been set right, many said.

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AG Martha Coakley’s office said in a court filing that former state chemist Annie Dookhan should serve up to seven years in prison for her transgressions.

Red Sox 4, Tigers 3

Red Sox take 3-2 lead in ALCS
Mike Napoli scored twice in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series.

Koji Uehara retired all five batters he faced for his fourth save of the postseason, and the Red Sox are now one win away from heading to the World Series.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox are exactly where they want to be

The Sox put themselves in position to capture the flag by beating the Tigers, 4-3, in another grueling, midnight-hour carnival ride.

Clockwise, from left: Carlton Fisk and Luis Tiant’s exploits in 1975 dwarfed the mayoral race between challenger Joseph Timilty and incumbent Kevin White.

Red Sox run could overshadow mayoral race

In a city obsessed with baseball and politics, baseball almost always wins — at least when it comes to voters’ attention.

Kevin Cullen

New flavor comes to Adams Corner

It made perfect sense to open a soul food joint in the middle of the most Irish neighborhood in the city, right?

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

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One contract controversy barely ends before the next begins, or so it seems to several members of the Boston City Council.

Globe exclusives

The Dmanisi early Homo skull.

Skull challenges understanding of evolution
New Balance is footing the $14 million to $16 million bill to build a commuter rail station in Brighton.

Shirley Leung

A new route for transit funding
A rendering of Harvard University’s proposed Allston campus.

Walsh, Connolly both look to remake the BRA
James Franco, who released a collection of stories in 2010, is out with his first novel, “Actors Anonymous.”

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‘Actors Anonymous’ by James Franco

Shawn LaCount (pictured) and Summer L. Williams found Company One 15 years ago with a half-dozen other Clark University graduates.

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Company One: From upstart to mainstay
Rob Gronkowski was at practice with the Patriots on Wednesday.

Agent: No way to know when Gronkowski returns
Oct. 22, 1978: Malcolm Logan cheered boats on from the Larz Anderson Bridge. The Weld Boathouse can be seen to the right. This boathouse is home to Harvard’s rowing, boating, and crew teams.

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Head of the Charles Regatta
David and Beth Henneberry, with the trailer for their new boat, in Watertown.

Boat owner tells story of Tsarnaev capture
Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in “The Fifth Estate.”

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Inside WikiLeaks with ‘Fifth Estate’

Red Sox shortstop Stephen Drew sports an all-too-familiar expression to Boston fans after striking out in the sixth inning.

Slumping Red Sox look to ignite offense
Red Sox infielders gathered during a pitching change in the fourth inning of Game 4.

Dan Shaughnessy

Sox’ chances depend on your perspective
The new Galaxy Gear watch (left) won’t work without Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 phone.

Tech Lab

Time’s up for Samsung smartwatch

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Tuvshinzaya Gantulga (left) and Dulguun Baasandavaa are in the championship doubles.

For Mongolian rowers, the Head of the Charles is uncharted water

Back home in Ulaanbaatar there was no word for what they do. So Dulguun Baasandavaa and Tuvshinzaya Gantulga had to invent one.

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John Connolly proposes Roxbury Entrepreneurship Center

The proposed center would be aimed at helping Bostonians launch and grow their own businesses.

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Aaron Hernandez attended a pretrial court hearing in Fall River earlier this month.

Aaron Hernandez defense slams DA

Lawyers for the former Patriot said prosecutors have filed a frivolous motion to have the judge currently assigned to the murder case step aside.

Columnists

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Zeus and Adam

Yvonne Abraham

Who connects the best?
The pope drives this used, manual-shift, 1984 Renault 4 around the Vatican grounds.

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The pope’s freedom

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Too much hot air at town meetings
John Connolly, left, and Martin Walsh met Tuesday in their first debate of the general election campaign.

SCOT LEHIGH

Edge to Connolly

JOAN VENNOCHI

Walsh shows his humanity

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You need a license to dance in Boston

adrian walker

Give Dobelle the boot

Shirley Leung

Emerging from the crowd

Boston Capital

No end in sight for biotech bubble

Kevin Cullen

Holiday salute for local heroes
The picture that says it all.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Red Sox’ comeback now has iconic image

Nation & World

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The widespread shooting in Nisour Square enraged opinions in Iraq. Defendants contend they were counterattacking an ambush by insurgents.

Ex-Blackwater guards face new Iraq charges

The Justice Department brought new charges against four security guards accused of taking part in a shooting in Baghdad six years ago that killed 14 unarmed civilians.

Business

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Giovanni Carrara (right) had Angry Orchard Hard Cider at Conor Larkin’s Grill & Tap in Boston. His friend Konstantinos Berios was drinking beer. The bar’s general manager says Angry Orchard quickly became a hit drink at the establishment.

Boston Beer’s fastest selling product? Not beer

Angry Orchard, launched nationally last year, has quickly becoming the country’s most popular hard cider brand.

Arts

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Karole Armitage brings her work “Rave” (pictured) to her troupe’s ICA program.

Armitage adds color to her choreography

Choreographer Karole Armitage’s “Rave,” which her company Armitage Gone! Dance will perform at the Institute of Contemporary Art, delights in the offbeat and unexpected.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and Sylvester Stallone star in the action flick “Escape Plan.”

Putting Sly and Arnold behind bars in ‘Escape Plan’

Director Mikael Håfström’s movie with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger serves up old-school action that’s crisp, not lunkheadedly creaky.

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The words “home economics” likely conjure visions of future homemakers quietly whisking white sauce or stitching rickrack onto an apron. But to a handful of people thinking big about these problems, they evoke something different: A forward-thinking new kind of class that would give a generation of young people. . .the skills to shop intelligently, cook healthily, manage money, and live well.

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