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Summer is in full swing! That is quite evident as the roadways are full despite $5+ per gallon of gas. Americans have tired of staying at home. This summer we are ready to break out and go.

Mary Ellen and I just got back from a trip to visit my sister and brother. In my sister’s lovely condominium in Great Neck, New York, she has a little windowed room off her kitchen that’s no more than 6 by 8 feet. In that room she meditates every day, and she claims she has achieved some degree of calmness and peace in her life. I am jealous of Linda — I want what she has. No, not serenity and peace, but a little room like hers where I can go every day, down a few beers, vent my anger and frustration with the world and kick over a bookcase. Very relaxing!

I have found that one of the best ways to refurbish aging kitchen goods is to attend a pitch-in dinner. I have just returned from a large family gathering to which I took a spinach salad and came home with baked beans, watermelon and a slab of chocolate cake, all in durable glass containers with plastic lids that fit and are not cracked.

GREENFIELD – The first class of the Hancock County Community Foundation’s Excellence Academy graduated in May, completing a three-year journey of education and networking.

Tri Kappa awards five scholarships

June 21

Prange earns degree from UA

WILKINSON – The call was there, but a pull was strong.

Five-year-old Chase Brown jumps over the finish line with joy as he finishes his first duathlon at Riley Park as part of the first triathlon to take place in Greenfield.