Good day to all of you.
Have you ever been so conscientious about not doing something that you do it anyway? That exact thing happened on Tuesday in my column when I credited Jameson Levesque with an assist in the Berlin-Gorham hockey game against Kennett (a 3-2 Mountaineers win).
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