Sports
The sentence was spoken at 11:40 on a Tuesday night, in a kitchen in Winchester, by a forty-year-old commercial-lines underwriter, to his wife, who was loading a dishwasher. He had reinstalled the game four hours earlier and had last played it in 2004. He then wrote to this newspaper and asked to be audited, believing it would settle the matter in his favour.
By Dale R. Kettering · 13 min read · September 8, 2026
Life
A local woman experiencing a range of familiar postpartum symptoms reportedly achieved one startling moment of absolute certainty Tuesday evening when her husband asked what she wanted for dinner.
By Everett J. Coyle · 3 min read · September 5, 2026
Life
In a shining victory for personal independence and the sacred right to never talk to strangers, local resident Jenna Mallory, 29, successfully ordered a large pepperoni pizza Thursday evening without placing a single traditional phone call.
By Everett J. Coyle · 3 min read · August 31, 2026
Life
Local man Greg Pattison, 37, emerged from his sister-in-law’s baby shower Saturday afternoon claiming, without evidence, that the three-and-a-half-hour event was “actually a great time.”
By Everett J. Coyle · 3 min read · July 12, 2026
Sports
Steve Harrington thought he and his dog Baxter had a real shot at the local pickleball title. He was wrong.
By Everett J. Coyle · 1 min read · July 14, 2026
Local
A nine-page incident report, six pages of it black bars, and no office in the United States whose job it is to say whether the thing was new.
By Dale R. Kettering · 17 min read · June 28, 2026