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Chronicles: The Ancram Swimming Pool
A little bird told me the Ancram swimming pool is reopening for the summer season. Before the Ancram swimming pool and adjacent Blass Memorial Field were built in 1960, Ancram swimmers, myself included, cooled off in Round Hole, a sharp kink in the Roeliff Jansen Kill about a mile out of town. Round Hole was down a dirt lane off what is now private property on Wiltsie Bridge Road, where swimmers shared the waters with snapping turtles the size of wash tubs. Meanwhile, Holstein milk cows from Sommerhoff Farm cooled off upstream; in the 1950s, the “solution to pollution was dilution.”
Great Barrington 10YOs Edge Adams, Earn Rematch with Pittsfield
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Mason Blackwell Wednesday singled to the right side with two out in the bottom of the sixth inning to drive in a pair of runs and give the Great Barrington Little League 10-year-old All-Stars a 14-13, walkoff win over Adams-Cheshire in the Don Gleason District 1 Tournament on Myron Gray Field.
Little League District 24 All-Star 10s baseball: Great Kills stuns top-seed Snug Harbor in semis; Mid-Island wins
Snug Harbor finished pool-play undefeated at 4-0, including a 5-1 decision over Great Kills just five days ago, but the visitors put together a three-run fourth inning and held on for dear life in a pressure-packed sixth inning for a 3-2 Little League District 24 All-Star baseball 10-year-old tournament victory Wednesday night in Livingston.
Pittsfield, Dalton-Hinsdale Earn 10-Year-Old Little League Wins
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Pittsfield Little League 10-year-old All-Stars Tuesday jumped on top early and went on to their second run-rule win of the Don Gleason District 1 Championship at Deming Park. Myles Morrison-Gould went 2-for-2 with a double, and Sean Rozak struck out seven in 3 and a...
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