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Most of the Northeast will be dry today: the exceptions will be some showers in northern Maine from a departing system and in the Mid-Atlantic from moving through.

A new upper level low is forecast to move into the region early in the week keeping much of New York and New England cool and wet through midweek before the low moves away.

Highs today will range from the low 60s in northern Maine to the low 80s in the Megalopolis between Philadelphia and Boston.

The police chief of Perry Township has retired after a dashboard-camera video became public showing him and a female officer kissing and caressing in the front of a police cruiser while a prisoner was in the back seat.Timothy Escola retired Tuesday night after four years with the department, located about 50 miles south of Cleveland. *

A 16-year-old girl thought that she heard her mother being assaulted and rounded up some friends who beat up the woman’s boyfriend, only to learn later that the couple actually was having sex, the woman and police said.The girl misinterpreted the woman’s amorous screams, and she and four other teens went to the woman’s bedroom in the Torrington home on June 6, police Lt. Bruce Whiteley said yesterday.

One of the teens beat the 25-year-old man with a bat and others punched him, police said. He suffered a black eye and several bruises.

The girl, two 17-year-old boys and Dilyen Langdeau, 19, of Torrington, were arrested Tuesday night and arraigned in Bantam Superior Court on Wednesday.

Langdeau was charged with assault and conspiracy; the teens face similar counts.

The fifth teenager was not charged.

A judge sealed the police report. The names of the girl and the two boys were not released because of their ages.

The 34-year-old woman, Melanie Arnold, said yesterday that the girl is her daughter.

Arnold denied that she was screaming, and said that her daughter thought that she heard a slap and believed an assault was happening. *

Just like the Clintons, it looks like President Obama and his family will vacation this summer on Martha’s Vineyard, the idyllic isle off the coast of Cape Cod.

Although the White House refused Friday to comment on the First Family’s vacation plans, sources said arrangements were under way for a presidential visit to the island, long a favorite of celebrities and politicians.

At the Wesley House, a stately inn in Oak Bluffs, the Secret Service has blocked out rooms for agents during the last week of August, sources told the Daily News.

Meanwhile, the hunt is on to find a suitable compound for the Obamas - with the list of possible homes narrowed to three, according to the Vineyard Gazette.

The paper reported that, unlike the Clintons, the Obamas plan to actually pay rent, not take a loaner from a wealthy friend.
Editors Note: Change has now left the building.

I’m not sure what it sounded like when they wrote the National Anthem, or what it must have been like when they celebrated the first fourth of July, but I know it must have been grand if Greenville’s fireworks were anything like that.

In a day and age when Sky’s across the USA went dark this year, due to lack of funding, or lack of will, Greenville’s Chamber of Commerce and its business community came through once again to bring our the Big bangs, a great way to start the heritage weekend.

It was good to see the streets and parks packed with people, and children of all ages, as they rode the trolley  from one location to another, to See the trains of old, at the Railroad Museum, which never looked better, to the Canal Museum, where visitors were treated to authentic Indian Music and Drums, and Dances, and over to the park where it was wall to wall people visiting the booths, eating, playing games on the morning some many years after our country was born, smileing, laughing, running playing, and in general giving new life to the town, to spite what it’s been through.

The hot rods of old lined up down main-streets brightly spewed flowery streets, showing off the new street scape, as hundreds milled around, wishing I suppose for a ride with the top down, some beach boy music, or Jan and dean, the eagles, what ever your favorite summer road tune was, and the History Museum, looking as nice as I have ever seen it, little kids seeing for the first time where we came from, old people remembering stores and places now gone.

But that is America, in a time when people want to tear down, Greenville is now building back up, from the bad things, the bad time, from a time when people said were were done, said turn off the lights, give up, the people of this town never cease to make me proud, between random acts of stupid some days, but in the end, and for the first time in a long while, I feel like I am home, in a great place, at a great time, and part of something on the move.

Those who planned this day deserve a great deal of credit, a great deal of thanks, for taking countless nights away from their families, friends and spouses, to make this happen, and sometimes I am guilty of not saying thanks for the effort, I like to tear down, bitch and moan, but at last I found a day in the history of Greenville where all things wen t right, were good to great, and I am glad I lived to see it, to spite turning 45 this week.

I still feel like an old soul, and I guess if you have to Be an old soul, there is no better place to do it……….. Ah, crap, now I went and put that in writing, and I can’t deny it.

I can only imagine a few people dancing around there desk come Monday for that thought, as most just hide when I come by.

And the rest of you saying……….. Oh Crap,  hes gone mad.

But hey, when people do good , some one should say so.