The Small Town Sentinel Sunday (Kickoff)

OK, guys, here it is. The first in the new series here at beverlygoldenstein.com. I’m not sure if it’ll take off or tank, but it’s been fun to put together so far. I asked for a subscription to one of the small town papers for Christmas, and Maude delivered in a big way. I’ve been receiving the paper since late December, but have really been slacking on the blogging in 2018 (as you well know). So, the past few weeks, I finally sat down with my stack of newspapers and a highlighter, and got set to finding the finest fragments for you guys.

And, without further ado, I present to you, actual footage from The Small Town Sentinel. Starting off with the post-Christmas edition, which featured a big piece on the West Falls Elementary Classic Christmas concert. (yes, they still do Christmas concerts. And they sing, like, actual Christmas songs). Kinda crazy in today’s politically correct world, but let me just kick this bitch off with my favorite quote regarding the holiday festivities. “The youngsters were dressed up in anything from antlers to elf ears and Christmas sweaters to dazzling winter gowns as they sang their winter favorites.” Dazzling winter gowns.

Before I hand out this next morsel, I have to give some background on its author. For the sake of this here blog, we’ll call him T-Fisch, and he did attend high school with Bev. He’s a year or two younger than I am, I believe, and has been the chief correspondent for The Small Town Sentinel pretty much since graduation (maybe even before). He writes a lot of the content, takes most of the photos, and probably “edits”, but his true talent is in his weekly opinion column, (appropriately?) titled, “Age of the Geek.” This particular opinion column is called “the seven best things of 2017” and the list is as follows: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Wonder Woman, Atomic Blonde, Duck Tales, Sonic Mania, Cuphead, Super Mario Odyssey, and Honorable Mention: Thrawn. Now I try to punctuate things correctly here at BG, but I honest to God don’t know what in the fresh hell any of those things even are to try to look up whether they should be italicized, underlined, quotation marked, etc.

Going to go ahead and sign off here, but I want to leave you with a photo.