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During a very difficult 2021, it was a very good first year
A first full year is in the books for kerryeggers.com after my retirement after 45 years in the newspaper in April 2020.
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I walked into Barlow High on a recent Friday night to the sweet sound of basketballs bouncing in the gym, and the reassuring sight of fans filing in the doors and milling around in the lobby, awaiting a game.
There were no concessions being sold, no cheerleaders dancing, no pep band playing, and everyone was masked up.
Even so, it was a return — somewhat — to the normalcy that COVID-19 had stolen from us more than a year ago.
Gresham beat Barlow 61-47 before a crowd I’d estimate at about 300 spectators, seated in every other row in a facility with a capacity probably about 1,000.