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As the administrator of Sharon Health Care Center in Sharon, I wanted to write to say thank you to the countless community members who have supported our center during our transition to a COVID Recovery Facility. To those who donated food to us at the start, whose names are endless.
I am writing in response to Deborah Moore’s letter to fellow Nutmeggers, posted in the April 16th Lakeville Journal.
A few months back on Twitter, some wag suggested that you can cause a great disturbance in the Force — and provide moments of serious fear and confusion — by taking almost any Wikipedia article about the world today and putting the descriptions of the key things in it in the past tense.
I investigated. And it’s true.
SALISBURY — For a mostly retired couple of Medicare age, coping with quarantine in salubrious Salisbury has been a remarkably benign experience.
Within weeks the killing rampage of what was now thought to be a previously unknown virulent strain of influenza was in full bloom. Cities were under siege, their populations sickening and dying at an alarming rate.
Checking out at LaBonne’s the other day, I noticed something for the first time. It wasn’t how quickly social distancing caught on, or how common it is now to see people wearing gloves.
It was fear. In people’s eyes. In their actions, ranging from nervous glances to deer-in-the-headlights panic.
A few months back on Twitter, some wag suggested that you can cause a great disturbance in the Force — and provide moments of serious fear and confusion — by taking almost any Wikipedia article about the world today and putting the descriptions of the key things in it in the past tense.
I investigated. And it’s true.
Here are three anecdotes about the Great Falls on the Amesville-Falls Village border, my research prompted by the removal of the 1903 through-truss bridge to make way for a new span.
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