Aldrich makes Curry College Dean’s List MILTON Curry College congratulates Zackery Aldrich of Royalston, who was named to the Spring 2022 Dean’s List. Zelaya of Orange earns degree from Clark U. WORCESTER Mayte Torres Zelaya, of Orange, received.
Editorial: Monday Shorts: Raptors redeemed
Tom Ricardi releases a barred owl in Deerfield last Wednesday. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 3/7/2021 3:27:08 PM
Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.
For readers of this paper, it was a familiar story immortalized by Photo Editor Paul Franz’s pictures of rehabilitated raptors taking tentative steps out of their cages, testing their wings, circling the clearing, perhaps alighting in a tree and soon lost to sight of Tom Ricardi, 81, who had nursed them back to health. For 20 years, Ricardi and Dr. Robert Schmitt of the South Deerfield Veterinary Clinic have answered a calling to give injured eagles, owls, hawks and vultures a second chance at life.
Mahar seniors trying to ‘Revamp the Rims’ at Butterfield Park in Orange
Five seniors at Ralph C. Mahar Regional School want to rehabilitate the basketball court in Butterfield Park. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
A diagram of Double Rims, the basketball court at Butterfield Park on East River Street in Orange. Five seniors at Ralph C. Mahar Regional School want to rehabilitate the court in an honors project called “Revamp the Rims.” SCREENSHOT
Modified: 3/2/2021 4:28:23 PM
ORANGE Five Ralph C. Mahar Regional School seniors are taking a shot at a competitive state grant to rehabilitate Butterfield Park’s basketball court across from the bandstand.
ORANGE Five Ralph C. Mahar Regional School seniors are taking a shot at a competitive state grant to rehabilitate Butterfield Park’s basketball court across from the bandstand.Abigail Henne, Siobhan Davis, Hannah Dupont and Christopher Vezina Jr..