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SHARON — “Don’t listen to the weatherman!” proclaimed Matt Andrulis Mette, director of Sharon’s Parks and Recreation Commission. Why the malice toward meteorologists? Andrulis Mette was standing on the Sharon Green on a sunny afternoon, Saturday, Aug. 5, knowing that all his plans had gone right — albeit just a little late. 
Despite the fine weather, early forecasts of storms and showers had taken a visible toll on attendance for the annual summer Arts and Crafts Fair. 

SHARON — The hallways were buzzing with activity at Sharon Hospital on Tuesday, Aug. 1, but happily not because of any kind of massive health incident. 
On Tuesday, the hospital officially joined the Health Quest group. Administrative and medical staff were busy throughout the day changing their email addresses, getting new identification cards, doing all kinds of tedious paperwork. 

Imagine a life in the future devoid of human interaction, of everything from a friend’s embrace to the touch of a  cashier carefully placing change in the palm of your hand.
In Courtney Maum’s new novel, “Touch,” the future is now, and isolation that has grown from a screen-obsessed culture has given way to a new kind of marketplace, where the warmth of a hug is as much of a commodity as an Uber ride.

SHARON — The children at Sharon’s Little Rascals Summer Program took a break from swimming and playing on the sun-baked sand at Mudge Pond on Wednesday, July 19, and lay their towels down on the cool grass to welcome a few new friends, of the feathered variety. 
Sunny Bettley, Sharon Audubon Center’s wildlife rehabilitator and outreach specialist, was there to give campers a very close to look at a selection of the center’s resident birds of prey.