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Shot heard ’round the world? Russell teen’s cannonball discovery raises questions about hilltown site
Updated 8:07 AM;
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RUSSELL Eighteen-year-old Zackary Cernak stumbled literally stubbed his toe on a mystery wedged under a rock on a hillside overlooking the Westfield River valley.
A senior about to graduate from Westfield Technical Academy, Cernak was working on his network of dirt bike trails, raking leaves and scraping debris away from a giant rock when he spotted something that looked too round, too unnatural, for its surroundings.
“Something seemed a little bit off,” said Cernak.
What he found is an iron ball, corroded and cracked with flakes of metal peeling from it, weighing in at a little more than 8 pounds and just more than 4 inches in diameter. Cradled in his hands, it looks like a rust-colored candlepin bowling ball. ....

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