'Corporate Merger' Ends Lemonade Stand Fracas

SALEM, Mass. -- A lemonade merger has settled a dispute between two boys hawking the beverage and a rival vendor in Salem.

The boys, who are 9 and 11, will now sell their refreshing ade as subcontractors under the vendor's license.

The dispute started after the vendor's employee reported the boys to police last weekend, saying the stand was affecting their sausage stand business, which also sells lemonade. Police then shut down the boys' stand because they didn't have a vendor's license.

The sausage stand employee said he's endured his share of icy stares since the incident.

The deal was brokered by the mayor, who calls the arrangement "a corporate merger." The arrangement expires when school starts