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BREAKING NEWS: Help SCN fundraise by voting for our light pole!
by the SCN Team Help reporter Skeleton reach the top spot with his latest article. The winning poles around downtown Stockbridge earn money for their selected charity. You can support our local newspaper by voting online here or at one of the participating local businesses for pole #36! Be sure to include Pole #36 in […]
Gregory’s 49th Independence Day Parade
Entertaining onlookers prior to the start of the parade And it begins! There’d be no parade without the tractors! One thing you can always count on in the Gregory parade: Lots of tractors! Driven by veteran farmers and future farmers, tractors old and new are used to pull families, clubs, and […]
Outreach in Action
At Outreach, Christmas begins long before cold weather sets in by Jo Mayer and Paul Crandall “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.” —Scrooge, in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” Sure, it may be a hot […]
Three decades of A Day in the Village have celebrated the coming of summer
by Tina Cole-Mullins When it’s Father’s Day weekend, school’s out and temperatures warm up, it’s time to get out and celebrate. For three decades, Stockbridge’s annual A Day in the Village has enabled families and friends to gather together for fun, food and festivities in town. This year, the festival marks a special anniversary. “The […]
On Memorial Day: Remembering Elias Sweet and more than 1 million others
by Ben Fidler Elias strung together his sack filled with boots and woolen socks, maybe fresh bread from his mother Eunice. His father, Lamech, may have hugged him so tightly it held back their tears. Behind the family, at the Sweet Farm in Waterloo Twp., the dairy cows bellowed. Elias turned one last time to […]
Who cares about weather when there are eggs to hunt!
Details and photos by Andrea Stickney Considering how early Easter fell this year, it’s not surprising that the day before Easter dawned cold and wet. But that didn’t stop the kiddos who showed up for the annual Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by the Stockbridge Lions Club. The kids had a ball, as usual. Each left […]