Keeping Score: Duende or not
Published: 12/18/2020 5:55:28 PM
Modified: 12/18/2020 5:55:15 PM
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Back in the day when kids stood on street corners hawking newspapers, Boston sports fans regularly turned to an erudite columnist named George Frazier. Educated at Boston Latin and Harvard, Frazier wrote for the Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and later for Esquire and Life magazine.
In Boston he coined the term “duende” for a level of class attained by few people or places. Ted Williams had it, but Stan Musial did not. Celtics center Bill Russell had it, Wilt Chamberlain did not. Nantucket had duende; Martha’s Vineyard did not.
GSB helps Turners Falls softball program with new backstop project
Turners Falls Athletic Director Adam Graves, left, stands with Greenfield Savings Bank President John Howland, center, and Turners Falls softball coach Gary Mullins after Graves and Mullins presented a plaque to Howland in recognition of his organization’s donation to support a new backstop for the Turners Falls softball project. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Modified: 12/15/2020 9:02:43 PM
If you have attended a softball game at Turners Falls High School and went to use the restroom behind home plate, you probably remember having to have your head on a swivel at all times, commonly hearing a roaring “heads up!” as the dangers of a foul ball coming for your head happened far too often.
GSB helps Turners Falls softball program with new backstop project
Turners Falls Athletic Director Adam Graves, left, stands with Greenfield Savings Bank President John Howland, center, and Turners Falls softball coach Gary Mullins after Graves and Mullins presented a plaque to Howland in recognition of his organization’s donation to support a new backstop for the Turners Falls softball project. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Published: 12/15/2020 6:00:13 PM
If you have attended a softball game at Turners Falls High School and went to use the restroom behind home plate, you probably remember having to have your head on a swivel at all times, commonly hearing a roaring “heads up!” as the dangers of a foul ball coming for your head happened far too often.
Internship programs added at Turners Falls High School, unique in Franklin County
Two internship programs in health care and social services, and advanced manufacturing will be offered at Turners Falls High School starting in 2021, making the school one of only a few in the area with such professionally oriented programs, and the only one in Franklin County offering the state education department’s internship program. Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 12/16/2020 2:21:09 PM
TURNERS FALLS Two internship programs in health care and social services, and advanced manufacturing will be offered at Turners Falls High School starting in 2021, making the school one of only a few in the area with such professionally oriented programs, and the only one in the county offering the state education department’s internship program.
Athol High School seeks new mascot to replace ‘Red Raider’ Native American caricature
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Some Athol fans show up in full Red Raider attire to a game in 2010. The school is replacing he nickname and mascot. photo by J. Anthony Roberts
Facebook Share Athol High School has begun collecting ideas for a new sports brand and mascot, replacing the “Red Raider” Native American caricature the Athol Royalston Regional School Committee voted last month to scrap.
The “Red Raider” logo depicted a tomahawk-wielding cartoon figure with a big nose and spear over his shoulder.
The move away from racist depictions of Native Americans follows those at Frontier Regional School, Turners Falls High School and Mohawk Trail Regional School, as well as the Washington Redskins renaming themselves – temporarily – the Washington Football Team – and this week’s announcement that ownership of the Cleveland Indians will rename that baseball team