One Body Part You Never Exercise But Should, Say Experts
One Body Part You Never Exercise But Should, Say Experts
If you ve got a gym membership or a home-gym setup, chances are you re well versed in the benefits of working out your biceps, triceps, quadriceps, calves, pecs, back, core, and shoulders. If you love yoga, you know the importance of gaining flexibility across your hips and core as well as so many other muscle groups. But for all of us who love exercise, there s a crucial body part we all too often neglect, and it s all the more puzzling when you take into account how often we actually use it: Our feet.
Editorial: Monday Shorts: ‘Excellence and Opportunity’
Dr. Dean Singer at 146 Federal St. in Greenfield. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 4/12/2021 2:52:52 PM
Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.
Since 1962, Greenfield Community College has offered “Excellence and Opportunity,” as the title of Arthur W. Shaw’s history of its first 25 years puts it, to the residents of Franklin County and beyond. Readers with long memories will recall when the college was strung out across downtown Greenfield the old Federal Street school, the Newell Court annex, the former Threadwell Tap & Die building on Arch Street, and probably other humble sites even as its early leaders jockeyed for a permanent campus. But to its students, these makeshift quarters were a string of pearls because they felt like “college” intellectually demanding yet always supportive of its students.
Demand outpacing supply in Franklin County housing market
Laura Sandvik of Delap Real Estate in a newly built house for sale on Champney Road in Greenfield. Of the Franklin County housing market, Sandvik says “there has been a lack of inventory the past few years and now, with the pandemic, so many people are trying to move here.” STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
A newly built house for sale on Champney Road in Greenfield. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Joseph Ruggeri of Ruggeri Real Estate outside a newly built house on Champney Road in Greenfield. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
A house in Turners Falls being sold by Cohn & Company Real Estate. Supply and demand is playing out in sellers’ favor in Franklin County, with recent data showing the median sales price of single-family homes has jumped by more than 40 percent in the first two months of 2021, compared to the same time period last year. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Big jump for house sale prices in county and region
Laura Sandvik of Delap Real Estate in a new construction house for sale in Greenfield. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
New construction house for sale in Greenfield. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Joseph Ruggeri of Ruggeri Real Estate in a new construction site in Greenfield on Champney Road. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
A house for sale in Turners Falls. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
A house for sale in Shutesbury. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
SARA LYMAN
Modified: 4/5/2021 2:59:01 PM
The median sales price of single-family homes in Franklin County has increased more than 40 percent in the first two months of 2021, compared to the same time period last year.