Black Friday’s annual made-for-network-news stampede of crazed big-box shoppers was oddly missing last weekend. America’s megastores instead fought for a place on consumers’ computer monitors and smartphone screens while trying to take a piece of the Cyber Monday market. The Tri-Town was a happier place last weekend. Residents and visitors alike enjoyed Shop […] Read more »
As we celebrate a Thanksgiving unlike any in most of our lifetimes, we can take a break from 2020 and go back in time to 1974. That year, Rochester’s First Congregational Church had a special pre-Thanksgiving service. The service, a pageant portraying the first Thanksgiving between the Pilgrims and their Wampanoag neighbors, was planned by […] Read more »
As the November 19 joint meeting of the Old Rochester Regional School Committee and Massachusetts School Superintendency Union #55 proved, an agreement is hard to come by where it concerns the reopening of district schools, namely whether the students should be back on campuses on a full-time basis. But what administration and committee members […] Read more »