Is baseball still the national pastime?
We need one, and there’s nothing like the sound of the crack of the bat.
~Samantha Rathe, Cold Spring
No one cared about the recent strike. I love baseball but football has surpassed it.
~Luke Riley, Beacon
I think it is. And I grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where baseball began.
~Lucy Smith, Cold Spring
Type: News
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Michael Turton has been a reporter with The Current since its founding, after working in the same capacity at the Putnam County News & Recorder. Turton spent 20 years as community relations supervisor for the Essex Region Conservation Authority in Ontario before his move in 1998 to Philipstown, where he handled similar duties at Glynwood Farm and The Hastings Center. The Cold Spring resident holds degrees in environmental studies from the University of Waterloo, in education from the University of Windsor and in communication arts from St. Clair College.
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