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April 2023 Newsletter
Greetings From the Prez Eight more weeks! Can you believe it? We have just eight short weeks before the first gun of the 2023 season. The cherry blossoms are blooming, they’re playing baseball at Fenway and the Boston Marathon is just two weeks away. Spring is here, and Memorial Day weekend is barreling down like…
March 2024 Newsletter
Greetings From the Prez “Holy crap, March already! Where has the winter gone?” That, by the way, is a direct quote from last year’s March newsletter, which admittedly is kind of lame, but hey, if the shoe fits. In contrast to winter, spring kind of sneaks up you. The ‘winter is coming’ thing is like…
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Changing Gears: It’s Like Riding a Bike
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Sail Numbers and Ski Jackets
This was first published in the February 2014 Newsletter. By Christina Pandapas It was truly astonishing. There were so many Fleet 5ers at Sugarloaf over the holidays I’m surprised the left side of every lift line wasn’t overrun. In fact, next year I’m proposing we all put our sail numbers on our jackets, assemble at…