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Loss is hard, no matter who it is or what their age may be. Each week, the pages of include obituaries and death notices of local residents. Some led full and interesting lives, with numerous family and friends surviving and keeping their memories alive. Others were taken far too young and far too suddenly. The community mourns their potential and what they could have achieved. Some you wished ...

To shave, or not to shave, that is the question. A little over a month ago I shaved off my beard and mustache. It was the first time since high school that I was bare-faced and the first time in close to two decades that I did not have a beard. During COVID, I let my beard grow out. While in my mind’s eye, I was going for the look of the classic band ZZ Top, in brutal honesty it probably l...

It is amazing how much faster and easier it is to tear something down rather than to build it. On Saturday night, the stage lights went dark for the last time on Medford Area Community Theater’s production of “1776.” Long weeks of rehearsals, running lines and practicing songs and blocking came together and the payoff was the applause from the audience and the sense of accomplishment for ...