11/29/2005 - Final (cheery) Athol Post

As promised, here is a cheery post about Athol Massachusetts, because there is plenty to be cheery about in Athol. For example, after Mahar tied up the Thanksgiving day football game with only 3:40 remaining, Athol High scored 3 times in the last 2 minutes to take the game 40-20.

Where did I read about this? In "The Republican," of course. You may have heard that Massachusetts' western region is more conservative than, say, the People's Republic of Cambridge. So I decided to fish around a little on The Republican's website in the hopes of finding some call to arms. Alas, I found them to be neutral on Gay Marriage, tough on Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and outraged that the military has been buying space in Iraqi Newspapers (oops, anachronism). No fun.

Unfortunately, waltzing my way through Athol in late November, I missed what is probably among the more fun events in these parts: The annual River Rat Race. This is a 10k canoe race from Athol to Orange (along the Miller's River). As my wife knows, I am very much a wannabe canoer, although if I really wanted to be, I would get my act together and go out on the Dirty Water one of these days...

10,200 steps today as I slowly mend. Cheers,