Area high schools excited to start Fall II season
Members of the Amherst Regional football team run the second of two circuits on a snow-free path across Community Field during a Hurricanes practice on Tuesday. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Amherst Regional football senior lineman and captain Owen Frenette, foreground, leads a line of players in warmups on the school parking lot to open a team practice at Community Field on Tuesday. The players used the lines of the parking spaces to keep themselves nine feet apart. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Members of the Amherst Regional football team run two circuits across Community Field during a Hurricanes practice on Tuesday. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Starting a teaching career in New York City in 1986 wasn’t exactly an ideal time or venue, but that’s when and where it happened for me. While my classmates were going to work on Wall Street, I was student-teaching at Martin Luther King High School on.
MLK Day prompts discussions about overcoming racism
A portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. by Stone Soup Cafe Board President Whitney Robbins. Contributed/Jansyn Thaw
A portrait of voting rights activist and Georgia politician Stacey Abrams by Stone Soup Cafe Board President Whitney Robbins. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/JANSYN THAW
A drawing by Leilany Zaylene Jackson, 10, from the Twice as Smart School in Greenfield. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/JANSYN THAW
A display outside Stone Soup Cafe in Greenfield honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Contributed Photo/Jansyn Thaw
Published: 1/19/2021 6:58:21 PM
Community discussions organized around Martin Luther King Jr. Day saw Franklin County residents consider the activist’s legacy, anti-racism education and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Keeping Score: Jim Reid knows how to pick ’em
Published: 1/1/2021 4:51:09 PM
Modified: 1/1/2021 4:50:57 PM
Good morning!
Jim Reid knows recruiting. He’s a football lifer who grew up in Medford, played at the University of Maine and married his teenage sweetheart Judy Crowley. He’s been a head coach at UMass, Richmond and VMI, and an assistant coach at Syracuse, Virginia, Iowa, Boston College and Bucknell.
So yeah, Jim Reid knows recruiting.
“I love recruiting, I think it’s fun,” said Reid. “I’m talking to families about the program and the future of their children.”
Reid turned 70 last year and has been sidelined since the COVID-19 crisis began, but over the years he’s driven to places like Pahokee, Florida, and Cedar Bluffs, Iowa, convincing players to join the program. “The key is getting to know the parents how hard they work, what they do and how they talk to you,” said Reid. “A humble, hard working parent who’s in the player’s life, you k