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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, July 1, 2010


With the threat of rain over the Laconia Muskrats, who also serve as grounds crew, remove the tarp before the game.


MUSKRATS from 55


to the same high school in Connecticut sixty years ago. Bob and Marge have been married for seven months. “We bumped into each


other on the Internet about two years ago,” Bob explained. “I was living in Arizona and Marge was


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Pictures the summer residents of Bear Island preparing for the departure of the Sophie C. after its daily delivery of U.S. mail.


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the batting fence around home plate. Bob indulged in one of Domenic’s sau- sage subs. Life is good! With the threat of rain


lingering about, the crowd wasn’t as big as you’d see at most Muskrat home games. The first base bleachers were starting to fill up fairly quickly as


8pm rolled around and things got started. The starting lineups


for each team were an- nounced and the Musk- rats took the field. Our National Anthem was played. Before the first pitch it was announced that that the Winnisquam All-Star Team was at the game and the players, all 12 and under, were in- vited to run onto the field and stand at their respec- tive positions in the field with the Muskrats. “Play Ball,” was an-


nounced by the umpire and soon the first pitch was del ivered by the Muskrat’s pitcher Jarrett Miller to the Steeplecats left-fielder Kyle Saul. I decided to get a differ-


ent view of the action from the third base side. There, sitting by herself on the top row of the bleach- ers, eyes fixed on the ac- tion was Carolyn Dame of Strafford. She decided to come see the game with her husband (who was somewhere in the first base bleachers) after she See MUSKRATS on 57


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