Armed standoff, Real Housewives and a topless coffee shop

We had our second-best day of the month yesterday with 64,185 uniques and 197,837 page views and are quickly approaching the 1 million uniques mark.

We had some help from our usual friends at Google, Yahoo and Fark, but some new referring domains drove traffic including: literotica (an adult site please don't view at work), majorgeeks.com and hfboards.com, a sports forum website.

Great job last night on the breaking news at Gosling Meadows (we should see more of those numbers in tomorrow's report). Special thanks to Beth and Scott who stood out in the cold to get a great story and photos, Andrew, who sent out alerts and got three versions of the story posted and Desiree for keeping the print operation running smoothly.

Thanks also to Carl Pepin who sat through four overtimes at the Kennebunk Hockey game and provided a story and photo gallery.

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