Obamas return for summer stay on Martha’s Vineyard

Published August 10, 2013 6:40pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The first summer vacation of President Barack Obama’s second term is taking him back to Martha’s Vineyard, the well-heeled Massachusetts island he avoided during last year’s re-election campaign.

But his return is causing a bit of an uproar among residents. The Secret Service plans to close part of a public road near the six-bedroom home Obama is renting in Chilmark, a first for presidential vacations on the island known as a refuge for the wealthy and the well-connected.

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