Dennis Caron
a coach for all seasons
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      When he began coaching here in 1971 there was no baseball team but there was a track team led by someone named Vito. In the winter there was one sport - basketball - and Dennis Caron moved to the island with his wife Janice to coach the boys' team.
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A conversation with n d Dan Shaughnessy
by Steve Sheppard
      It was Super Bowl Sunday and Dan Shaughnessy had the day off s l - a rare occurrence for the awardwinning Boston Globe sportswriter who regularly turns in three columns a week i and who has penned several books about Boston's pro teams, including the best-selling "Curse of the Bambino.
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TIGHT LINES
with Andrew Spencer
      200 CHANNELS AND THERE'S NOTHING ON It was an honest mistake. Seriously. Anybody could have made it. I just happened to be the guilty culprit. And the ironic thing is, I was trying to be helpful. I was at the Stop & Shop recently, stocking up for another week's worth of cheap eats, and I had g...
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      WHICH WITCH IS THE IPSWICH WITCH? Writing a bird column takes one on a marvelous odyssey. I love the homonymic phrase in the title that oddly enough, includes the name of this week's bird. In reality, both these witches are 'Ipswich Witches,' representing the old Ipswich, Mass. Hosiery Mill th...
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