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by Tyler Crabb
The Twin Cedars summer sports teams won’t waste any time kicking off their 2021 season as the softball team has seven games in seven days and the Baseball squad has four games in five days.
Twin Cedars returns their top eight hitters from a year ago, with five of them posting batting averages over .400. Sabers Junior Grace Bailey is poised to lead the pitching staff again this year after a solid 2020 campaign that ended with a 16-6 record and a 1.43 ERA. Twin Cedars is hoping to avenge last year’s late season loss and Coach Zack Dunkin says they want to take the next step and make the trip to Fort Dodge and the state tournament this year.
Wareham Firefighters break in new brush breaker
WAREHAM – You could say Wareham Firefighters were breaking in the new brush breaker truck.
The sparkling new five-ton brush breaker hasn’t even had its service numbers painted on its sides yet.
It was carrying its full load of 750 gallons of water, and 25 gallons of foam. Along with the firefighters it was also carrying 230 or so pounds of journalist who had been invited along for the training drill Saturday.
The training exercise involved locating Chief Matt Rowley and Assistant Chief Patrick Haskell who were secreted deep in the woods on the southern end of the over 12,000-acre Myles Standish State Forest.
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Local emergency medical providers ask public to not call 911 unless necessary
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CLINTON, Tenn. Anderson County ambulance and other emergency medical workers are asking the public to reduce the strain on emergency medical personnel by not making unnecessary calls for ambulances.
“What we want is to prevent a time when you call for an ambulance, and we don’t have one to send,” Meredith Reddington, medical director for Anderson County Emergency Medical Services (ACEMS) said, adding she also wanted to prevent a time when emergency rooms could not provide “lifesaving” services to those in need.”
Reddington, Tyler Crabtree, an advanced emergency medical technician; Todd Heffern, an emergency room physician; and Nathan Sweet, ACEMS director, spoke to reporters Thursday at the ambulance service s Station One in Clinton. They explained that the Anderson County EMS is still responding to all calls. However, in order to make sure they can continue to provide services