Monthly Archives: March 2025

Mar
26
2025

Montague Reader Offers Plain Truth

by Gary Sanderson

Spring is in the air and I’m a bit on overload. Thinking. Always thinking. Reading. Absorbing a 24/7 news feed that can be frightening these days. Exhausting, too. I tried to ignore cable news after the election, which is next to impossible without a change of address to some secluded ramshackle shack along a cold, […]

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Mar
14
2025

The Beat Goes On

by Gary Sanderson

When you’ve worked a beat for nearly a half-century as I have, and enjoy deep roots therein, upturned stones of investigation can trigger vivid memories. This is such a circumstance. It started with word of a supposed archaeological site in South Deerfield, about to be disturbed by the construction of a new dog shelter. When […]

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Mar
01
2025

Memory Valley

by Gary Sanderson

Monday morning. Eagles’ Super Bowl LIX rout in the rearview. Cold and calm. Skies icy gray. Intermittent flurries flying. Fresh snowbanks framing roads. Splendid day for a road trip. No sun. Classic bluegrass spinning. Loud. Stimulating. Stringed instruments trading the lead, helping to ricochet spontaneous thoughts through the rocky, vegetated canyons of my mind. What […]

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