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When I look back at my three years being around Extreme Championship Wrestling, mainly when they came through New England, I'm amazed that I survived. It was an exciting time, both from a journalist's perspective, and personally, from the friendships made. But, I'm also ashamed of what I saw after the matches, in the motels and in cars riding to the towns with some of the in-ring performers.
Posted by Eric Stone | Jul 21, 2021 The 63-foot wooden seiner Mount Pavlof at the end of the 2020 salmon season. (Photo courtesy of Christopher Rood) Four fishermen escaped with their lives over the weekend after a seine vessel sank south of Ketchikan. Crewmembers from another fishing boat heard their distress call over the radio and arrived in time to rescue them. Around 3 a.m. Sunday, Pete Feenstra says he and a three-person crew were readying themselves for a salmon opener south of Ketchikan. Then he heard a mayday call from the radio. The Mount Pavlof, a fellow seiner, needed help. “...