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(Editor’s Note: Part II of a two-part series on students’ views on acceptance and equity in the Athol Royalston Regional School District.)ATHOL — Two Athol High School students who are members of the Diversity Club and the district’s Equity Team...
The annual George Washington Hatchet Hunt celebrates 100 years this year. The Hatchet Hunt was started in 1922 by Johnny Johnstone, an employee of the YMCA, according to current Hatchet Hunt Coordinator Jason S. Robinson. “He had the great idea of...
Times Past: Feb. 23, 2021 Published: 2/24/2021 2:42:28 PM Modified: 2/24/2021 2:42:26 PM 1996 Washington’s Birthday is renowned in the area for the hatchet hunt sponsored by the Athol Fire Department and the Athol Area YMCA. More than 350 area youth with many parents ventured into the Bearsden Woods in search of 50 prizes, the most coveted of which were two engraved hatchets. Winners of the hatchets in the 74th hunt were Adam Richard, 13, of Phillipston, who found the Washington Hatchet and Emily Webster, 5½, kindergarten student at Silver Lake School, who found the “Johnnie” Johnston...
Times Past: Dec. 22, 2020 Published: 12/21/2020 4:15:08 PM Modified: 12/21/2020 4:15:04 PM 1995 A holiday tradition for many years, mitten trees in local banks is likely to end this year with the disbanding of the Athol Quota Club. The club, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in February, voted to disband as of June 30. “We had no new members and many of our people are getting older and are unable to continue,” Doris Blanchard explained. “We’d like to keep the mitten tree going, but I don’t know if we’ll be able to,” she said. ■EMT Timothy Newton recently presented a conti...