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By Anne Z. CookeTribune News Service

PORTOFERRAIO, ITALY — When you sail on a ship like the 208-passenger Star Breeze, a vessel nimble enough to squeeze up almost any tiny cove or narrow gorge, it’s a good idea to bone up on the ports of call in advance.

Researching local histo-ry, anecdotal and otherwise, always adds zing to a day spent in an unfamiliar destination. If nothing else, you’ll have time to decide which shore excur-sions — if any — promise to be that one and only magical mys-tery tour.

And so it was last spring, as we sailed down Italy’s west coast on the Star Breeze, one of Windstar Cruises’ three newly acquired and refitted all-suite yachts, a move that Windstar CEO Hans Birkholz describes as the company’s “first venture into ships with-out sails.”

Like Odysseus sailing home from Troy, we — my husband, Steve, and I — couldn’t resist the lure of Tuscany’s distant shores, a siren song of rugged cliffs, green hills and secluded coastal villages. After a busy first day in Monaco and a glit-tering sendoff at the Monte Carlo Casino, we sailed on to Portofino, the oft-photo-graphed celebrity hideaway whose harbor and village are as famous as they are tiny.

Going ashore for a wake-up coffee, our usual vacation rit-ual, we set out to explore Por-

tofino’s steep streets, poking through cheese shops, baker-ies, art galleries and souvenir stands. At noon we climbed the ridge behind the village for lunch at the Hotel Splendido, an annual contender for the award of world’s best hotel.

But later that evening, as I studied the ship’s next-day port of call, the town of Porto-ferraio, I suddenly realized we were headed for the island of Elba, best known beyond Italy as one of European history’s most infamous prison sites.

If you’re a fact freak, you may know Elba as the island where Napoleon, self-pro-claimed emperor of France and the scourge of Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was exiled. Why

Elba? If Elba’s a barren, storm-tossed rock like Alcatraz (as I’d always imaged it was), I’m not wasting my day going ashore.

But the next morning, as we sailed closer, a gentle hill appeared on the horizon with an ancient tower and walled harbor along the shore. Red-tiled mansions lined the water’s edge where private yachts and fishing boats rode at anchor. Miniature cottages climbed the hill, half hidden among groves of trees. Elba wasn’t a prison at all.

And the shore excursions I’d expected to blow off? Two choices offered rich dividends. The first, a visit to Napoleon’s in-town quarters, the gar-dens, a museum and his coun-try residence, would cure my

ignorance. Napoleon, in fact, didn’t live on Elba very long, escaping within a year. (More fool he, considering how things turned out.) But the sec-ond excursion, an island-en-circling tour, offered a chance to see the real Elba, geogra-phy, topography, warts and all.

Piling into the bus we were off, following a winding two-

The legendary Mediterranean coastline offers authentic experiences in offbeat places when you cruise on a smaller vessel like the Star Breeze.

TUSCANY: UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

The harbor in the celebrity hideaway of Portofino, Italy, is one of the most photographed in the world. PHOTOS BY STEVE HAGGERTY / COLORWORLD

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Don’t expect to meet the locals in Monaco’s Monte Carlo Casino; they aren’t permitted to enter or to gamble.

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discounted fares with listed “brochure fares,” go to www.windstarcruises.com. For example, the fare for our 7-day cruise, “Yachting the Riviera,” if booked now, is $2,799 per person. If booked later at the “brochure fare,” it costs more than twice as much, at $6,599 per person.

■ 2016 SAILING DATES: The Star Breeze sails to Costa Rica and Panama in January and February; in April to Morocco and the Canary Islands; in May to Spain and Portugal; in late May to Monaco (includes two days of Grand Prix events); in June-August to Italy, Sicily and Spain; in September and October to Venice and Athens; and in late October the ship returns to the Caribbean.

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Films’ impact on area pegged at $54 million

Nearly 9,000 jobs linked to movies, TV shows, more.

Hamilton businesses reap economic benefits.

JOBS & ECONOMY GREATER CINCINNATI

Actors Prem Singh and Michael Pugliese film a fight scene for the movie “Tiger,” which is being shot in the gymnasium at Hamilton High School. GREG LYNCH / STAFF NOVEMBER 2015

By Chelsey LevingstonStaff Writer

A price tag has now been attached to the slew of film crews that have worked on movies, television series and commercials in the Cincinnati region over the past two years.

A new estimate released over the weekend by Univer-sity of Cincinnati Econom-ics Center puts the econom-ic impact at some $54 million and change.

Production of movies such as Oscar contender “Carol,” Miles Davis bio-flick “Miles Ahead” and boxing drama “Tiger” invested about $54 million to hire performers, pay for consulting services, lease buildings and make oth-er investments, according to the Economics Center.

The activity since 2014 also created an estimated

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is filmed for a scene in the movie “Carol” outside Kosta’s Restaurant. NICK DAGGY / STAFF APRIL 2014

GREATER CINCINNATI FILM INDUSTRY

$54 million estimated economic impact in 2014 and 2015 for spending such as vendor contracts and more

8,800 full- and part-time jobs created including freelance and crew hiring since 2014

$11.8 million taxpayer support in Greater Cincinnati for movie, television and other films since 2014

$20 million worth of tax credits available a year under Ohio Motion Picture Tax Incentive program

Dole salads exit shelves

By Matt Sanctis and Allison WichieStaff Writer

Thousands of bags of pre-packaged salads have been pulled from grocery shelves across the region, and many workers returned to Dole’s Springfield facility Monday, days after production there stopped when health officials linked the plant to a listeria outbreak.

Dole voluntarily closed the production facility Thursday afternoon after one death and 12 illnesses were linked to the outbreak. Locally, health offi-cials said the news has not led to a spike in calls from con-cerned shoppers.

“The part that’s helping us is that most of the cases are out of state,” said Anita Biles, a spokeswoman for the Clark County Combined Health District. “There’s not been any local illness, and there’s

Area stores react to listeria outbreak at Springfield facility,

LOCAL IMPACT

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Average gas prices in Cincinnati have fallen 12.7 cents per gallon in the past week, according to GasBuddy.com. STAFF FILE

By Ed RichterStaff Writer

BUTLER COUNTY — While gas prices in some parts of south-west Ohio spiked Monday, the lowest gas prices found in Butler County were about 20

cents below the $1.54 per gal-lon average.

The lowest price per gal-lon in Butler County was $1.31 at the Circle K at 2166 Pleas-ant Ave. in Hamilton, accord-ing to GasBuddy.com. The low-est price in the Greater Cin-cinnati area was $1.25 at the Costco in Springdale, UDF and Circle K on Reading Road in

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GAS PRICES

Local gas prices below regional averageLowest price spotted in Butler County Monday was $1.31 per gallon.

Covert video leads to charges

By Paul J. WeberAssociated Press

AUSTIN, TEXAS — A Hous-ton grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrong-doing Monday by the abor-tion provider, and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that targeted the handling of fetal tissue in clinics and pro-voked outrage among Republi-can leaders nationwide.

David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Prog-ress, was indicted on a felo-ny charge of tampering with a governmental record and a

Anti-abortion activists indicted; no charges for Planned Parenthood.

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