I am finally in a “break” mode since local high school winter sports are completed, and the information and pictures for the upcoming Spring Sports’ Supplement are gathered, and submitted for editing and printing. Now it’s time to sit back, relax and wait for our spring sports season openers to take place.
As I drove by the local fields, track and courts today, I realized we will need a few days in the 50s and above, soon, to get that snow and ice off the surfaces before the recreation department can even get on them to prepare them, say nothing about play on them.
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