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By RICHARD SZLOSEK

 I was in elementary school in the late 1940s and baseball was one of my chief interests. I was a huge fan of the Boston Red Sox and my heroes were Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio. I was devastated when the Sox lost the...

By RICHARD SZLOSEK

Well, the powers that be in Northampton have unanimously decided to reduce our Main Street down to two lanes of traffic. The project apparently won’t even begin until 2025 and I have stayed out of the discussion because, at my advanced age, who knows...

By RICHARD SZLOSEK

I am a volunteer docent at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Museum in Forbes Library and, as a result, random ordinary things often trigger thoughts about Calvin and Grace Coolidge to my mind. An example of this is Bill Danielson’s column on raccoons...