Resort

Those hoping to bid on a bit of history from New Hampshire's Balsams Grand Resort Hotel are getting their first look at the old signs, china and other goods up for auction. A preview is being held Thursday and Friday in Dixville Notch, where an auction is set for Saturday to clear out the nearly 150-year-old resort. The resort was sold last year to two businessmen for $2.3 million. They plan to reopen it in 2013. They have commissioned North Country Auctions to liquidate the contents, which include hundreds of sets of bedroom furniture, kitchen equipment, a biomass plant and other...

The skiing and riding industry in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom was altered drastically Thursday, when news came down that the owners of Jay Peak Resort have purchased nearby Burke Mountain Resort, creating a joint venture that makes for intriguing expansion options for Burke. The deal was first reported by WCAX-TV , which also pointed out that Bill Stenger and Ariel Quiros completed the purchase of Burke earlier this week for an undisclosed price. A formal announcement is expected later today.

The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe would make approximately $33 million in upfront payments to Taunton as part of a deal reached with the city's mayor to allow the tribe to build a resort casino in the southeastern Massachusetts community. The agreement announced Thursday by tribal chairman Cedric Cromwell and Mayor Thomas Hoye also calls for minimum annual payments of about $13 million to the city. The tribe has proposed a $500 million casino on 146 acres of land at the junction of Routes 24 and 140. The complex, to be built in stages over a five-year period, also would include three...

Hundreds of guests at a beachside Hawaii resort are returning to their hotel after police shot and killed a man in the parking lot who was suspected of stealing a vehicle. Several hundred guests were evacuated after the shooting Tuesday afternoon and weren't allowed to return to their rooms while police were on the scene, said Winston Chinn, Mana Kai Maui Resort general manager. Maui County spokesman Rod Antone says police received a report of a stolen vehicle in Kihei and found it in the resort's parking lot. Antone says the suspect tried to flee in the vehicle and...

Greenpeace Mexico says about 30 of its activists have been briefly detained by Mexico City police after several of them rappelled down the side of a hotel to hang a banner protesting a resort project. The activists' banner was directed to President Felipe Calderon and read: "Calderon, cancel Cabo Cortes. " They were released later Tuesday. The Cabo Cortes resort is planned for a stretch of the Baja California coast facing the protected Cabo Pulmo coral reef. Cabo Pulmo is considered a model for recovering degraded reefs, and activists insist runoff and traffic from the resort...

North Korea is ordering all South Korean workers at a troubled joint mountain resort to leave within 72 hours. A North Korean tourism official said Monday in state media that his country has also banned any South Korean assets from being removed from the North's east coast Diamond Mountain resort. South Korea's Unification Ministry didn't answer calls seeking comment. The ministry website says 14 workers are at the resort. North Korea has vowed to dispose of South Korean properties at the resort unless progress is made in negotiations to restart lucrative cross-border tours.

SEATTLE - Three people were killed in an avalanche yesterday near a popular ski resort in Washington state, authorities said. The King County Sheriff's Office said the slide occurred near the Stevens Pass ski area in the Cascade Mountains northeast of Seattle. The victims were found in an out-of-bounds area near the resort, Sergeant Cindi West said. Yesterday, the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center issued a warning for high avalanche danger for areas above 5,000 feet, saying warmer weather could loosen surface snow and trigger a slide on steeper slopes.

Ocean View Inn and Resort 171 Atlantic Road, Gloucester 978-283-6200, 800-315-7557 oceanviewinnandresort.com What we liked most: The view of lumbering waves swelling and crashing on the rocky shore. What we liked least: The lingering smell of disinfectant in the room. What surprised us: How far away the city seemed. You know you're at Ocean View Inn and Resort when . . . seagulls wheel past, inches from your window.

Hundreds of skiers decked out in Santa outfits and beards are hitting the slopes at Maine's Sunday River ski resort. The Newry resort says 250 skiers and snowboarders signed up for Sunday's 12th annual Santa Sunday to raise money for the Bethel Rotary Club's annual holiday toy drive. All 250 available spaces filled up in eight minutes on the Sunday River website. To participate, the skiers have to show up in a Santa outfit and donate $10 or more to the toy drive. Participants get to ski free for the day while also receiving...

The hotel's brochure hooked us. A glowing blurb in a guidebook reeled us in. Off we went to a hot new couples resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the Bahamas. But wait. The brochure cover had shown a wide, airy balcony with an unobstructed vista of turquoise ocean. Yet the tiny terrace from our "ocean view" room mainly overlooked the block of rooms in front of us, with a thin sliver of the Atlantic barely visible over the rooftops. And the blurb did not mention that this "balmy Shangri-La" had such a chronic mosquito infestation that the delicate netting over our...

Former pro player Charlie Pasarell is leaving his management post with the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament after 31 years to develop a resort in Puerto Rico. Since 1981, Pasarell has served variously as tournament director, owner and managing partner of the largest combined ATP World Tour and WTA event at Indian Wells in the California desert. The day-to-day operations of the tournament and the Indian Wells Tennis Garden will be handled by tournament director and chief operating officer Steve Simon and Pasarell's business partner Raymond Moore, who reports to event owner Larry...

Officials in a Vermont town are supporting the proposed sale of more than 1,100 acres owned by a ski resort to the Vermont Land Trust. The Bolton Valley Ski Resort uses some of the land for cross-country skiing. Ron Lafreniere, chairman of the Bolton Select Board, tells Vermont Public Radio (http://bit.ly/Kp8uZB) the land would likely remain as backcountry trails accessible to the public. He also said the town would not lose much tax revenue. The Trust says it might pass the land to the Agency of Natural Resources.

(Jeremy C. Fox for Boston.com) A scene from Suffolk Downs. By Carlo P. Basile As a lifelong resident of East Boston who is privileged to represent this great neighborhood, I believe that a world-class resort casino at Suffolk Downs, done the right way and with the interests of the community taken into account, would be extremely beneficial to East Boston and our neighboring communities. First: It will bring jobs. A destination like the one Suffolk Downs is proposing — not just gaming space but a hotel, restaurants,...

The following was submitted by the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore: The JCC's first-ever Summer Program Guide has arrived, look for it in your mailbox soon! It's packed with exciting new activities and classes all summer long. A few examples: Fun Activities Every Afternoon   Mondays: Story & Craft Hour Tuesdays: Family Fitness by the Pool Wednesdays: Story & Craft Hour Thursdays: Sports & Games with Coach Karl  Friday: Music & Movement by the Pool Get...

Those hoping to bid on a bit of history from New Hampshire's Balsams Grand Resort Hotel are getting their first look at the old signs, china and other goods up for auction. A preview is being held Thursday and Friday in Dixville Notch, where an auction is set for Saturday to clear out the nearly 150-year-old resort. The resort was sold last year to two businessmen for $2.3 million. They plan to reopen it in 2013. They have commissioned North Country Auctions to liquidate the contents, which include hundreds of sets of bedroom furniture, kitchen equipment,...

Wynn Resorts, the casino company founded by billionaire Steve Wynn, reported first-quarter earnings fell, missing analysts' projections on lower winnings in Las Vegas. Adjusted net income was $152.0 million, or $1.33 per share, compared to $173.4 million, or $1.38, a year earlier. Wynn also dropped its plan to build a casino in Foxborough, with Patriots owner Robert Kraft, after residents voted in a local election and favored candidates opposing the project.

WILDWOOD, N.J. - Under the cover of darkness, this seaside resort city announces itself in all its exuberant, Technicolor glory. Motels with wacky names like the Ala Moana, StarLux, and the Lollipop light up the night sky with their dazzling neon signs, over-the-top 1950s architecture, and swimming pools lined with plastic palm trees. Even Wildwood's few chain businesses - a Wawa convenience store, a Harley-Davidson franchise, and a Subway sandwich shop - get in on the act, with design flourishes in the town's signature, doo-wop style, the name taken from the vocal groups...

Six years ago, Magic Mountain lost half a million dollars. Snowmaking covered only a quarter of the southern Vermont ski area, and the chairlifts had a reputation for being so unreliable that some skiers didn't feel comfortable letting their children ride them. But now the once-struggling resort, which has attracted a cult following for its steep, narrow trails and old-fashioned feel, is approaching an important milestone in its effort to become a skier-owned cooperative: nearly $1 million raised from the sale of shares to patrons.

The same disdain for alcohol that drove Christian clergymen to establish this Jersey shore town that calls itself America's Greatest Family Resort led voters to overwhelmingly reject a proposal Tuesday that would have let restaurant patrons bring their own wine or beer to enjoy with dinner. A referendum on whether BYOB should be allowed was soundly rejected by a 2-to-1 margin. Final unofficial tallies showed the referendum received 3,137 "no" votes, and 1,425 "yes" votes. Turnout was heavy in what one polling worker compared to the number of voters who would turn out for a...

A Chinese real estate tycoon is hoping to rent land in Iceland to build a vast nature retreat after an earlier attempt to buy the property was rejected over concerns about such a large tract going into foreign ownership. The Zhongkun Group has initial approval from Iceland to rent the 120 square mile (30,640 hectare) property, with a contract likely to be signed in mid-June, Yao Chen, a company spokeswoman, said Monday. "We can't comment on details as it is not officially set, but we think that it will be very likely for us to settle it this way," Yao...