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  Photos by Barbara Benoit / The Relay For Life of Greater Attleboro Photo 1 (above):  Artist   Mary Wojciechowski designed these luminaries during the "Creating Awareness" exhibit at the Attleboro Arts Museum held during the Winter Night Festival. Photos 2 and 3: (left and below left):  Artist   Greg Anderson used calligraphy to create these luminaries.    The Relay For Life of Greater Attleboro, which will be celebrating its 25 th anniversary at this June’s fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, received a tremendous boost during the recent Winter Night Festival in Attleboro, thanks to an art exhibit held at that time. The “Creating Awareness” live art-making event featured about a dozen artists decorating luminary bags in various art forms, and it attracted hundreds of spectators throughout the four-hour exhibit. With the relay on June 16-17 at Norton High School still months away, this was a positive start to what’s always an inspiring event. *****

  This column on what could be considered an 11 th plague for our times --- the scourge of hackers and scammers preying on people, especially senior citizens --- appeared in the February 2023 edition of Jewish Rhode Island of Providence, R.I. After being hacked three years ago --- and after my wife’s email was recently hacked --- I was motivated to write this column to share our experiences and to offer some advice on how to fend off these truly evil and despicable people, who deserve life imprisonment or the ultimate penalty: being denied access to computers and all forms of electronic media for the rest of their lives. NOTE: The link to the column, as it appears on the newspaper’s website follows: https://www.jewishrhody.com/stories/tips-to-thwart-those-despicable-scammers,27613? ****** Every time someone’s email or phone gets hacked or a senior citizen falls victim to a phishing or another scam, the perpetrators are not only treating their victims with extreme disdain and call

NOTE: This story appeared in the Feb. 7 edition of The Sun Chronicle of Attleboro, MA. Here’s the link to that article: https://www.thesunchronicle. com/news/local_news/relay-for- life-attleboro-arts-museum- team-up-for-exhibit-during- citys-winter-night-festival/ article_21d24485-93d6-5ab3- 944d-b25bddc52b90.html BY LARRY KESSLER For The Sun Chronicle ATTLEBORO --- The Relay For Life of Greater Attleboro and the Attleboro Arts Museum will continue their ongoing partnership by teaming up on an art exhibition during the city’s 2023 Winter Night Festival from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18. The festival will be returning to downtown Attleboro for the first time since 2020, when it was held weeks before the coronavirus pandemic lockdown halted all large gatherings and closed the museum for a while. The art exhibit inside the museum, one of the festival’s organizers, will be one of several events going on that day. Hayrides, a giant bonfire, food trucks, illuminated jugglers and sti

  Today (Feb. 1, 2023) marks 20 years since the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry after a two-week mission, killing seven more astronauts just 17 years and three days removed from the Jan. 28, 1986, Challenger explosion. The failure of many of its tiles, which protected the shuttle from the fiery re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, left Columbia without a reliable heat shield and caused America’s first space shuttle to disintegrate upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, sending Columbia’s remnants all across Texas. It was a Saturday morning, and I had just returned from my morning run when a friend and co-worker at The Sun Chronicle called to alert me to the tragedy, which brought back the painful memories of the Challenger disaster. In addition, as one of two news editors then on Saturday duty, I had a paper to get out --- our Sunday edition was at that time still the biggest of the week for The Sun Chronicle. (The edition was phased out and combined with the Saturda

NOTE: To remember the Columbia space shuttle disaster, which occurred 20 years ago today (Feb. 1, 2003), I’m posting two localized stories on the tragedy written by then-Sun Chronicle staff writer John Winters, as well as a column that I wrote about it. Winters’ two stories are posted first, followed by my column. They appeared in The Sun Chronicle of Attleboro, MA. on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003. This is Winters’ main local story, a reaction to the Columbia disaster two decades ago:   BY JOHN WINTERS SUN CHRONICLE STAFF Patricia Stewart knows what it's like to watch a loved one sail into the skies aboard the space shuttle. Her cousin, Kevin Kregal, has flown four shuttle missions, most recently in July 2001. Stewart, who lives in Plainville, has been there to watch three of those launches. Which is part of the reason that Saturday's explosion of the space shuttle Columbia hit her hard, and why the families of the seven astronauts who were lost in the tragedy were her fir

  NOTE: To remember the Columbia space shuttle disaster, which occurred 20 years ago today (Feb. 1, 2003), I’m posting two localized stories on the tragedy written by then-Sun Chronicle staff writer John Winters, as well as a column that I wrote about it. Winters’ two stories are posted first, followed by my column. They appeared in The Sun Chronicle on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003. This is Winters’ sidebar, in which he talked to teachers, asking their reaction to Columbia’s disaster two decades ago: BY JOHN WINTERS SUN CHRONICLE STAFF Plainville school teacher William Fasulo was saddened to watch the space shuttle Columbia break up over Texas Saturday morning. He thought of the families of the astronauts lost in the tragedy, and as someone who is eager to become a part of one of NASA's teacher in space program, the incident was even more troubling. “It brings back a lot of memories of the Challenger,” he said. “It shocks you, and brings back those memories and what the family of C