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They skip from one story to another with minimal details. And some of the stories they cover are a waste of time. Watch Fox News and you would think Michael Jackson's trial was of major importance to the world. TV helps you keep up with events, but you have to read the newspaper if you want substance.

I can understand resistence to change, that's only human, but where did anyone get the idea that there would be less local news in a morning Sun Chronicle? There has been no change in that committment. That's what makes The Sun Chronicle different. We were just honored by the New England Press Association as Newspaper of the Year, primarily for our local news package. We devote more space to local news than any other newspaper, anywhere.

In case you missed it, here's a quote from the publisher in a front-page story Sunday, Feb. We know people read us because you can't get anywhere else the kind of local news we provide. Thanks, Al, for your insight. That is exactly how I feel.

I have noticed over the past six months less and less of the "local" community news. I have wondered if this was a way to help us accept the change. Since I live in Foxboro, I looked forward to the reporting of local news by Ms. She covered all the local issues and it was a pleasure to read her reports. I just feel like we have lost so much in the name of progress in our lives that it would be nice to continue to have an exceptional "local" paper that was geared to local issues, sports and concerns to all of us … locally.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Every so often, I miss my youth, and when I do, I return here, to where I can always find it.

Nice to see we band together and stroll down Bushee Street path to Capron Park together. Then end up at the duck pond and sit on the stone edging and put on our skates. This winter in particular has brought out the ol' meloncholia for days but a blur now. Capron Park has changed so much that I can't even go back in time anymore, so I avoid it. My once beloved Tommy's Spa is now an insurance agency, and the Gazzolas have long gone from the gas station in Lonicut.

I can see the small theater to the right, after we passed those big mirrors. I'd like to think I was just small then, and Attleboro seemed really big and alive, but it was that, and more. If I could, I'd go back, and bring back, and this little 9-yea- old girl would go to Peter's fruit stand and buy a sparkling apple. My thoughts and prayers are with Councilor Carolyn Tedino for a speedy recovery.

We served together at the BKSA … memories sigh. In reply to Deb Stewart's comment dated Jan 27 regarding morning newspapers. I would like to say that morning newspapers can only report old news. When you come home from work at night and turn on your television you can't help but hear top news stories. Even while riding in your car you cannot help but listen to news stories on your radio. By the end of the evening you've pretty much heard any and all relevant news topics that have occurred during the day, repeated several times in fact.

Now when you get up in the morning, hoping to read something new that might be happening in the world, you open your morning paper and what do you read. If something significant happens in your town today you now have to wait until tomorrow to read about it. Unless you are spending your money hoping to save money by clipping newspaper coupons, a morning newspaper is pretty much a waste. I was just reading the comments about the city. I moved away many years ago, but it is still good to visit.

I can remember Dr. The best barbeque's when I was a kid were at the P. Attleboro has indeed changed but no one can take the memories of the days gone by. I am seeking information on John Foley. Not to worry about the SC losing its local news edge by changing to a morning rag. To do that it would have to have been in the business of covering local news in the first place. Since it appears that many Guestbook and Web site readers are in fact daily readers of The Sun Chronicle, I would like to know your thoughts and feelings about the changes due to come very shortly at the S.

The paper is set to become a "morning" paper sometime in February. I spoke to the editor of the paper when I heard the rumor. I was told that they in fact had done a survey and when I questioned "who" was surveyed I was told it was a scientific survey. Well, I along with many of the readers here grew up with this paper. It was part of our lives, it holds many memories of our past, our children's triumphs and defeats, losses of close friends and family.

The Sun Chronicle was a part of our communities by bringing us all that "local" news. I think we are going to lose that by going to a morning paper. What is your opinion? I for one would love to read your comments. I look forward to hearing all views here in the Guestbook. Good to see most people back. Why do so many of you who live worlds away from the Attleboroughs have such nasty things to say about what things are like there now and about the newspaper? I go back there about once a year and think the place is still pretty good. I delivered the paper for years as a kid - when we picked up our papers in the center of NA.

It was the Sun and the Chronicle at the time. A man named Frank Curtis ran the newspaper shop in the center of town. What about Morin's Diner? My parents have always found the latest and newest places to eat over these past 20 years. Time marches on folks. We all have great memories of the wonder years, but get real, put it into perspective. How about some more of those great stories of the growing up years. I'd like to find out if anyone has any information about Carpenter's Grocery Store that was located on or about 10 Park St. I believe that it burned down around If anyone has any information about this store, please pass it along.

I especially enjoy the links they have with photo collections. You can really get a feel for the recent record snows you suffered through! Also, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the The Sun Chronicle Opinion Page editor for the recent editorial: My family and I enjoyed and appreciate the kind words. I appreciate the excellent job, Lynxmaster. Johnson, Virginia Beach Wed January Let the Lynxmaster oblige you, Spit: As I said in an earlier e-mail, we had 1,, visitors to this Web site in They accounted for 6,, page views in that period. That makes our Web site the second largest information source in this area.

Using round numbers, last year we sold 20, newspapers a day on days there are four days we normally do not publish , so that adds up to 7,, Sun Chronicles sold in Those days represent a total of 14, pages. Multiply that by the 20, readers and you get Digital news delivery is the future, I agree, but it won't be from a Web site. This is only a step along the way. And the Web tail is not about to wag the newspaper dog any time soon. Show me a newspaper Web site with significant content that does not charge you to access it, and I'll show you a Web site that operates in the red.

Aside from taking the kids on a "nostaglia trip," there is really no reason to go there. If this Lynxmaster guy is doing anything else besides tending to the Web site, it's probably running down to Eli's to pick up lunch. What could be more important to business for the paper than making this Web site better? Lynxmaster, you must see that your future employment is completely dependant on how many hits this site gets? If I were you, I would be putting as much "stuff" as possible on here … forget about the print version, THIS is your future!

I would like to know how many hits a day this site gets versus how many papers you sell. This is a risk, but it's worth it. The Lynxmaster should remember that some individuals who submit Guestbook entries do not use their entire true names, nor their primary e-mail addresses. It is common practice nowadays to have a "junk" e-mail address that serves as a catch-all for the spam and other possible unwanted e-mail that might arise from using a site like this. Therefore, the Lynxmaster has no idea whether or not I am a subscribing customer to either the digital or hard-copy edition of The Sun Chronicle, and should not make such hasty judgements as though I am not.

Furthermore, there are plenty of newspapers around the country who offer their entire content for free on their websites, and still make plenty of money, so if you are classified as such a well-read paper as you claim, then it shouldn't bother you that some people expect something for free. A little more piquing the interests of those who do not subscribe might attract them to do so. Lastly, let me clarify;at the time I wrote my letter to the editor, I was not referring to the entire webiste not being updated, but rather the Guestbook portion only; this is my fault for not being more specific, and I certainly did not receive any response to my comments.

I am not sure I am quite used to being chastised by the webmaster of a website simply for stating my opinions. It seems inappropriate somehow. I wonder if anyone else agrees. Do you happen to be related to Rich in Florida by any chance? Have a blessed day Guest-bookers! To the "concerned Guestbook viewers": Although I may agree with your opinions, I have to say this Guestbook is at the recieving end of the people.

The words that are chosen most of the time are boring; however, if you want to bring back the Attleboro memories - just enter them in! Then perhaps your reading will encourage others and make this "free" site more enjoyable. I'd like to start the memories rolling once again by asking, does anyone know what the future holds for the Bliss School building? What a shame for that building to sit there the way it is. I have a lot of fun memories from that building I remember the playgrounds - boys on one playground, girls on the other!

Wow, have times changed right there! What about Tri-boro Drive-In. I miss that, too.

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Skating on Coopers pond with the neighborhood Northfield Road kids. Going to Burger Chef for a burger with the family! Mars was the best place for a kid to shop at Christmas time - or for any other occasion. What do you miss the most? Kerri, Fort Drum, NY: What a fitting [albeit unintentional] tribute your post was being so close to Dr.

King's birthday, on the subject of the futility of the protestation you witnessed: Your revealing and presumptive post here brings to mind the affected populace of the civil rights era. During that era, many "'viewers " made a similar observation. They accused these protesters of "wasting their time on protesting something they can't change," as well. They also arrived at your post's 'This Protest is futile! Your astute post is direct evidence of the fact that you are correct about one thing [at the very least], that some things.

I forgot this little gem: I might also add that your admission of a lack of content is something that also goes for your feature and syndiated story-filled print version, and has been the case since your "newspaper" went for 7 cents at the long-gone Mary's Spa on Bank Street. The "Lynxmaster" may want to disengage from the Stan Lee world masked superhero names in which he travels long enough to make note of the fact that even the Washington Post and New York Times do not consider on-line readers to be freeloaders … indeed, they are turning their sites into major revenue streams and gathering e-mailing lists in the thousands.

Apparently The Sun Chronicle's universe ends somewhere around the Foxboro town line. The Lynxmaster responds, with equal sarcasm: You're availing yourself of a free service we're providing at our expense and complaining that you're not getting more for your money. I wholeheartedly agree with Woody from Attleboro.

I have spent time reading the on-line version of The Sun Chronicle myself, and I am highly disappointed with not only the scanty content, but the apparent lack of skill and enthusiasm of the Webmasters who arrange the site. Not only is the newspaper portion itself a drag, but also this Guestbook is becoming increasingly boring with each passing day. I wrote a letter to the editor not too long ago asking why they don't update the site more often; even once a week would be better than how seldom they do it now, and I got absolutely no reply, not even an automatic e-mail response.

So much for the power of a loyal customer complaint. LOL Have a great day everyone! As I sit and watch the presidential inauguration, I ask myself why these people are wasteing their time on protesting something they can't change. Is it just my imagination or is the on-line edition of The Sun Chronicle getting nearly as thin and useless as the print version? It's always kind of looked like some kid's blog to start with, but now even those few stories that do appear under "local news" are down to like a hundred words.

My visits to the site are down from once a day to around once a week because, quiet frankly, it's a pretty boring and static place. About the only saving grace is Richie's insane rantings from Florida. But he's old and if the Sun Chronicle's advertisers are depending on him to pull a high-quality demographic, then they're as wacked as he is. It must be millions of dollars that London's dumped into this paper over the years and look where they are today. To my friend Jack at Morin's: I have a reading assignment for you. It explains everything you need to know. I hope the coming year brings you happiness and prosperity and brings to the world peace and understanding to all mankind.

Once again I was saddened to log onto the SC obits. As it states, he certainly did have a great personality. It conjures up a lot of old memories to see his name and sad to say it was in the obits. So, to all my old friends and aquaintences, life is short, enjoy it to the fullest. Hope to see some of you when I visit for Christmas. The same to all friend and foe alike in the Guestbook. Dear Guestbook and Sun Chronicle Staff: This is an appropriate season to tell it: In the early s, photographer Doris Ulmann visited Murphy. While she set up a portrait of a street preacher, her assistant, an actor and singer named John Jacob Niles, listened to the man's daughter, Annie Morgan, sing a little ditty.

He gave her a nickel a quarter, in some accounts to sing another verse. She repeated the same words. He gave another nickel. She sang the same words.

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The exchange was repeated a total of eight times and Niles came away only with the words she sang the first time. But what words they were: Hope you're enjoying yourself there, Mr. The phone cards are all well and good. I will send one or donate over the phone - we have cards around to use for long distance calls instead of using a long distance company. How much do their executives get for bonuses every year? And why doesn't the phone company and government install FTS lines so these troops can call home during certain times of the year, like Christmas? I would like to know how much free time the phone companies donate to the troops.

If I am wrong I would like to be corrected. In our house He is alive and well. It is snowing in West Virginia. The hills and the trees look great. As a federal prison chaplain there are more religions than most people know anything about. We deal with many of them and it is very interresting. Christmas is the time that Christians can set the example in how we treat and speak to others. Christmas is the time for us to show how much we care and let our actions and words speak for themselves. Just do it as the saying goes and let others see our good works and glorify God in heaven.

Nancy, I think that is a wonderful idea and I will send one or two in. Having served in the military for 22 years, 12 of which were overseas, I can assure you how much appreciated it will be. Thanks again for pointing out a great way for us to show our support and send the spirit of Christmas to our troops. What a wonderful idea, consider it done. Rich - The venom I referred to had nothing to do with your beliefs but the words that pigeonholed me without knowing what I believe.

Please read the following and consider a "Positive Energy" action Nancy Zazzera, Westerly, RI Sat December 04 by sending a phonecard to Walter Reed Hospital and an entry to the Sun Chronicle Guestbook giving thanks to our servicemen and women and blessings to our fellow guestbook members. She assured me that the need is legitimate. Should you want to verify this yourself, the number is a toll free number. So, if you would like to give some support to a wounded service person in a.

Anna and I thought it might be particularly helpful during the holiday period. Thanks for considering this request. Yellow ribbons tied around trees and red, white and blue stickers on the backs of SUVs saying "Support our Troops" are things that make civilians feel good, but do nothing for the men and women actually in uniform. So please consider the following: The government doesn't pay long distance phone charges and these wounded service people are rationing their calls home.

Many will be there throughout the holidays. Really support our troops - send phone cards of any amount to: I pay less than 3 cents per minute there. I am sure you would feel better about doing this, than to buy something for a third cousin, who would find it on the closet shelf six months later, and wonder where it came from. Thanks for your consideration and have a great holiday. God bless America and those who go in harm's way for our security.

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I wanted to share a couple of memories I have of the Attleboro area. I remember going to see Santa and having my picture taken with my sisters and brother at Ann and Hope. I also recall going to Bobby's Rollaway Christmas parties in the late 7'0s. Nancy, I don't think you offended anyone, honey! I think your comments were a wonderful distraction that brought back many warm Christmas memories of childhood in The Attleboros for many of us.

It is all too easy for believers and non-believers alike to forget that without Christ, there would be no Christmas. Our friend Rich is absolutely right about that. And you know, it is the one time of year when people tend to put their differences aside and be much kinder to each other. It is one of my favorite things about this time of year.

For that even non-believers should be greatful. I for one have decided not to let those whom I disagree with get the better of me and will bite my cyber tongue from here on out in regards to Rich's posts. I'd even send him out a big mistletoe kiss on the cheek as a sign of good will. Of course he wouldn't accept it if I were a man, but since I'm not, I hope he will! I, after all, am the one who chooses LIFE. I do not know yet what your feelings are on abortion. I do not hate anyone, but I have the right to state that certain issues going on in today's society are wrong, don't I?

Maybe I should feel threatened. Feel free to get back to me when you sort it all out and come up with a meaningful dialogue on what your beliefs are vs. Yes, I've been trying to get the spirit of Christmas going in this Guestbook. Sorry some of my wonderful memories of my old hometown, Attleboro, include that of Saint Nick.

Not all my memories are centered around the jolly man. So to celebrate the birth of our wonderful Lord, I have a memory of when I was 5 years old in Attleboro. One thing my mother use to do is put the three wise men on one side of the room. Each day she would move them closer and closer to the manger. I was told to stop asking how many more days until Christmas and that by the time the three wise men reach the manger, then it would be Christmas.

Back then Christmas seemed longer and I use to want Christmas to hurry up and arrive. I got in trouble one morning for moving the three wise men ahead and didn't think my mom would notice, but she did. I never did that again! Many years have gone by and now I carry on this tradition with my own kids. Sorry if I offened anyone with my Santa memories. I was just trying to lighten things up and make some positive energy in this Guestbook. Merry Christmas to all! I was thinking about my response to Rich's attack and just wanted to clarify something.

He does have a way of getting into your head in some way or other, doesn't he? Well, I do like it here. I so admire the ideals and passion of the men who founded this country. It's just that things were very different then. Live and societies evolve. There are people who would have us stay in the past instead of moving towards a future which concentrates on positive change.

I am not pushing my politics or religion on anyone. I have not stated what my politics are other than the fact that I don't like the current administration. In spite of this, I still believe in the spirit that built this country as well as its potential to once again become the greatest civilized nation on earth.

It is that belief that keeps me here and that keeps us all so passionate about what we think is best for it. Rich, my post was a request, not a demand. I am not the first to ask you to take your venom elswhere. Yes, you certainly do "stir things up" and are obviously off the deep end, for the post I wrote sent you off on a tirade calling me a baby killer, etc. I've got children and frankly to have my real name out in the open where an unstable person like yourself has access to it scares me. Extremists like yourself scare me and make me fear for my physical safety. Having small children I don't have the luxury of using my real name in a country where children are being shot in their own schools and our communications are being monitored by the Patriot Act.

You can speak your mind but under your president's administration, I'm afraid to speak mine. I have to say on the subject of his Christmas memories, I agree wholeheartedly with Rich. I am in my late 30s, with a 3-year-old daughter, in whom we are trying to instill Christian and moral values, especially during this Christmas season. I, too, remember being able to say "Merry Christmas" without being held in contempt. Just the other day I was in a store shopping for Christmas decorations, looking for a front doormat for my porch. I saw many designs they had available, some with "Seasons Greetings," and some with "Happy Holidays," but none whatsoever with "Merry Christmas.

I remember Nativity scenes and creches displayed all over The Attleboros in town squares growing up, and no one opposing the real reason for the Christmas holiday. I also grew up Catholic, and I remember the wonder and the pageantry of the live Nativity scenes, the depth in which the aspects of Christ's life, and death, were portrayed there, and it left an impression on me.

While I no longer attend Catholic church, I have never left my "first love," Jesus, and the value of what He did for me on the cross, and how He lived his life is never lost on me.

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I love giving gifts at Christmas, but I hate the commercialism of it. The other night my husband and I rented pay-per-view movies for our daughter to watch, to begin the Christmas season, and we found an old one on the list called "Nestor the Christmas Donkey," straight out of the early seventies! Now having been sold to cable companies and the like, it was once one of those Rankin and Bass television specials they showed at Christmastime, with the claymation characters, etc. My husband and I marveled at how different we have become in this country. We slowly commented on how we would never see anything like this on the public airwaves nowadays, mentioning God, the Bible, and even Jesus, or how his role was to be our Savior!

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It does appall me how the groups that claim to be all about "religious freedom" are mostly out to take away the Christians' rights to practice their religion, and enhance the rights of everyone else. I do know, however, who rules this earth, and why these things have come to pass, and who wins in the end!

Sadly, we cannot "go home again," no matter how many guestbooks we create, no matter how many memories we try to stir up. The events that are unfolding before us were written in a far larger book long before we were born, and they will come, eventually, to the end that was already determined. In the meantime, though, we can try to be a little more loving to our neighbor.

We can determine not to "sell out" to the modern version of the "holiday season," by creating and keeping our own traditions based on what we believe. Rich is not the first person to leave the cruel New England winters for the warmer climates. I have done it; alot of us in the Guestbook have, and for many reasons. That doesn't mean we still don't love our home, or have a right to belong there in whatever way we can keep contact. Just as some of you wish those like him would go back to where he now lives, there are some in the South who hate that we've come here to live, and want us to move back up North!

The sad truth is that the southern states at least it used to be so more clearly represent our inner values, and we are not as uncomfortable living among them as we would be "back home. I just wish we could all be a little more lighthearted, is all. Life is so short and precious.

Merry Christmas to Rich and his wife, and to all of you others here in the Guestbook, and all the families you represent. May the love of Jesus fill your hearts this Christmas, and may you understand the gift that He gave us by coming down here to live as a human being, a tiny baby, just the way we all began. Have a blessed holiday! I find it amusing that you think I was outdueled and tar and feathered in a battle of wits with some person who sticks "Allahs" in where "God" belongs. I also find what you think unimportant. What IS inportant is the fact that I do not hide behind phony names and false e-mail addresses.

I say what I think and I take the heat from spineless wonders such as you. I am reachable via e-mail, phone and snail mail, as well as in person. Unlike many here in the Guestbook who "strike and hide. That area is my "home. I am not the first northerner who retired to Florida.

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I point this out since you "ordered" me out of the Guestbook. Who do you think you are to order me to do anything? I also find it odd that my belief in God and my knowledge that this country was formed by Christians with Christian principles in mind who also guaranteed the right to practice whatever religion you choose, rankles people like you to the point of slander. What value system did you grow up under, anyway?

If so how did you learn that baby killing is OK? Who teaches that, the ACLU? How about same-sex marriages, no, how about same-sex coupling? Do you like that? If so, who taught you that it is OK for disgusting unions of same-gender people? Where does this stuff come from? C'mon, let's hear where you stand. My God, you may believe in the innocence of "O. Just please don't tell me I have been outwitted by the witless. Some of you want my Christmas memories? Okay, I remember going to church at the old Universalist Church in downtown North Attleboro and learning about the birth of the Christ child.

I remember later on dating Catholics and attending Midnight Mass with them on Christmas Eve and being amazed by the pagentry of a Catholic mass. I remember being able to pray in public school and being able to celebrate Christmas at school. I recall all the radio programs about the birth of Jesus later on TV programs. I remember seeing the lights at LaSalette and thinking how wonderful it was to celebrate Christmas this way.

I remember the little booklets of Christian Christmas songs being passed out in public school so we could all sing along. Gee, maybe since kids kinda worship Santa, you people will want to have "separation of Santa and State" also. I mean, why not? You seem to thrive on wrecking every value ever taught by our teachers and parents and clergy up until Speaking one's mind became "be politically correct" by rewriting history.

Now school kids are kept from receiving copies of the Declaration of Independance because of it's references to God. I could go on and on, as you know, but suffice to say, pseudonym, it's not too late. God is very forgiving. Have a great Christmas season. Well my psudonym hotmail. Myself, I like the stirring of the pot.

Rich may live in Florida but he's born and raised in The Attleboros so this is pretty much his hometown Guestbook and needs not go away, and I 'm pretty sure you're not the Lynxmaster and I'm real sure you don't have the right to speak for all who use this Guestbook.

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Merry Christmas to you and your family,and Merry Christmas and good health to everyone else in this Guestbook. I remember the Santa House on the Common, but I was afraid of him. He was too big to me. I remember the only Santa I would go near was at Grant's. I also remember the ice skating at Capron Park, and Brother David, I also remember you and Tracie taking me skating on my little double blades on the "pond' at the end of Mathewson Avenue.

I must been, what, 2? I don't think I ever touched the ice! I vividly remember that treat, because Mom used to spank me if I ever went past the fire hydrant - and the pond was just beyond that damn hydrant. I know now she was afraid I'd toddle in and drown, but it was full of fish! And I loved to poke them with a stick. I remember once there was a few pink sunfish on the side, dead. I also remember marvelling at Donnie Markham skipping stones across that pond. Come scrivere un'ottima recensione. La recensione deve essere di almeno 50 caratteri.

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