Sports

Appalled and thrilled is what I wrote for its alliterationbut that was pure showmanship, shimmy shuffle and shoulder roll, not true to the rapt attention I had trying to pin the technical terms - jab and cross, hook and uppercut - onto the bodies of two men who glided across the roped off ring trying to land blows.

Growing up as a self-described ‘nerdy kid’, Christopher Valli found himself immersed in science fiction and fantasy. “Watching Jedi and Sith fight with lightsabers, or Inigo Montoya squaring off with Westley in the Princess Bride was how I spent a lot of free time,” he says.

The Winsted Youth Soccer Association (WYSA) is hailing town officials and members of an ad-hoc committee for their swift, thorough efforts to bring lights back to the athletic fields along Willow Street.