🌱 Barnard native reflects on football’s rewards and lasting toll

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• Barnard native reflects on football’s rewards and lasting toll

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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• Thursday: Rain, temps: high: 41, low: 33.
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📰 News we're reading

• A closer look at 25 years of football: Nathaniel Furlong's inspiring football journey (huhsnewspaper.com) — Barnard native Nathaniel Furlong spent 25 years playing competitive football, including 15 in the semipro ranks, before retiring from the game. Now a digital arts teacher at Harwood Union High School, he treasures the friendships and championship memories while reckoning with lasting injuries and calling for better player protection.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Woodstock

• Letter: Veteran support (vnews.com)

Hartford

• Hartford teen raises flagpole at Veterans Park for Eagle Scout project (vnews.com)
• Police ID two killed in Upper Valley crash, car fire (mynbc5.com)
• Man dies in house fire after barricading himself in basement (vermontdailychronicle.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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