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By CHIP AINSWORTH

Eight years ago, my PSA (prostate-specific antigen) level nearly doubled from 3.9 to 7.2. Fear makes us accept or deny, to act or do nothing, and months passed until I scheduled an office visit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

(Note: This is the first of two parts. Part two will run in next weekend’s Recorder.)John Lacey raised his coffee mug for a refill. It was June and he was up for his Deerfield reunion, but I had balked at paying $124 for a lobster so we met for...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

Earlier this summer I visited my father’s grave in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he is buried next to his father Ira and mother Grace, her brother Elery, wife Josie and daughter “Little Middie,” who was born in 1877 and passed away three months...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

The recent hot temps and sunny skies made it a perfect time to watch the summer game. On April 14, the Greenfield High School baseball team played Hopkins Academy at Veterans Field and onlookers were scattered from foul pole to foul pole.Some stood in...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

Fifty-four years ago this month, on a cool, cloudy October afternoon in South Deerfield, Police Chief Jim Rosenthal got a phone call from Charlie Sadoski, the caretaker of the 100-year-old Mt. Sugarloaf Summit House. What he heard shocked him: A young...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

Gary Wilkos has come a long way since the day he lay injured on the gridiron in Newark, Delaware, on Oct. 20, 1990.Wilkos had moved up the depth chart to be the starting quarterback his sophomore year at UMass and was leading the Minutemen to their...