Renew Swim Area Season Passes: The Green River Swimming and Recreation Area opened on Saturday, June 5. Purchase or renew your season pass now.Hiring Lifeguards: The Recreation Department is looking for certified lifeguards, ages 16 and up, to work at.
Adult Co-Ed Singles Tennis Leagues: Begins May 31. A match schedule will be set and players will arrange times. For more information, contact Andrew Varnon at avarnon@yahoo.com or 413-774-5639. Renew Swim Area Season Passes: The Green River Swimming.
Editorial: Monday Shorts: Bad bot!
Greenfield Police K9 Officer Donut is featured in a video that has gone viral on TikTok. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Published: 3/1/2021 7:12:55 AM
Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.
Internet guile
Readers got a lesson in internet guile with the story about the vaccination slots at a Mohawk Trail Regional School clinic that immediately disappeared, scarfed up by a bot. Picture Pac-Man, eating up all those precious appointments.
A bot short for robot and also called an internet bot is a computer program that simulates a human activity, like “chatting” with you about an item you are thinking about buying online. (No, that’s not some kindly person on the other end of that chat box.) There are good bots, bad bots and everything in-between. Good bots help you make a dinner reservation online or automatically add an appointment to your calendar. Bad bots buy up all the popular concert