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The Plum Senior American Legion team made its 2017 summer season debut last week against North Allegheny at Plum High School, and despite a 12-1 setback, coach Mark Pivik said his players showed signs they can compete in the revamped Allegheny County League.

We struggled a little bit in some areas, but this team is coming around, said Pivik, who coached the Plum Colt baseball team last year.

They have the talent to field, hit, run the bases, pitch, everything. They just have to keep coming together, get past the early-inning and early-season jitters, continue to break the ice and go for it.

While Plum was playing its first game, North Allegheny already had several games under its belt and, Pivik said, was the sharper of the two teams.

A game against Upper St. Clair two nights earlier was postponed.

Plum was scheduled to return to action Monday at Plum High School against South Allegheny. The game was to be contested past the deadline for this week's edition.

A game Thursday against South Park was in jeopardy of being postponed.

It all depended on how South Park's high school team fared in its game Monday against Blackhawk in the PIAA state playoffs. That game also was to conclude past this week's deadline.

Ten teams constitute this year's Allegheny County league. The squads are in two divisions.

Plum is slated to play two games against South Allegheny, Elizabeth Forward, Forest Hills, Upper St. Clair and North Allegheny and single games against South Park, Montour, Bethel Park and Baldwin.

Pivik said he was pretty familiar with the team coming into the season as seven players Jordan Bruno, Kenny and James Rose, Spencer Wilson, Martin Pivik, Vincenzo Tavella and Art Palandro were a part of last year's Plum Colt team.

That team, one of the youngest in the league, produced a 10-8 regular season and advanced all the way to the best-of-three championship series before falling in two games to league power Delmont.

Five members of the Legion squad Joey DePastino, Dakoda Dialoiso, Brenden Kurzdorfer, Garick Poe and Tyler Wood came up from last year's Plum Junior Legion team that went 7-11 in the Westmoreland County league regular season and suffered a tough first-round playoff loss.

Gabriel Esposto, Colin Barrett, Pete Flaherty and Jordan Zatawski also are members of the team.

The team has come together with players from Oakmont, Monroeville and Penn Hills, in addition to the ones who live in Plum.

By rule, if a player lives in a community that does not field an American Legion team, he can play for the closest team that does sponsor Legion baseball.

Coach Pivik said the Plum team is still pretty young for Senior Legion standards with only three seniors (18-year-olds) on the roster.

The remainder are 17 and, in some cases, 16.

We want to go out, have fun and see what the season brings us, coach Pivik said.

It's a group of boys who know how to play the game and have fun together. We know we are up against some pretty stiff competition but the boys are ready for the challenge.

Michael Love is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at mlove@tribweb.com or via Twitter @Mlove_Trib.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear white people: You have been brainwashed. In your brainwashing, you are surrendering your freedom, sanity and country. We all know that most blacks are brainwashedthey hate good, excuse evil, blame whites and elect the worst people as leaders. All angry people are brainwashed, because all angry people believe lies. One sign of mass delusion is the reaction by blacks and whites to the so-called N-word nigger.

Blacks dont care about the so-called N-word. They care about manipulating whites with false guilt, fear and sympathy.

Last week I wrote about the melodrama of LeBron James, who said, Being black in America its tough, after the gate of one of his fancy homes was supposedly vandalized with the so-called N-word. It could be another hate-crime hoax no perpetrator found yet liberals blame racism in America.

Last month, comedian and talk-show host Bill Maher was invited to work in the fields by Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse. Maher jokingly balked, Work in the fields? Senator! Im a house nigger! It was a funny comment, good-natured, ironic (hes a white Jew), self-deprecating (as one of Americas most recognized entertainers) and true (he works indoors, not manual labor outdoors). The crowd laughed and applauded. But leftists forced Maher to apologize repeatedly. Unfortunately, Maher complied.

HBO promised to cut Mahers funny N-word joke out of future airings of the show. Black Lives Matter agitator DeRay Mckesson said Maher has to go. Maher said he lost sleep that night, admitted he was wrong (he wasnt) and apologized (for no reason but appeasement). RINO Sen. Ben Sasse sanctimoniously tweeted about his responsibility to correct Maher, suggesting Mahers use of the N-word was an attack on human dignity. Liberal Sen. Al Franken canceled his appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher in fake outrage.

The following week, Maher interviewed intellectual Michael Eric Dyson, a black preacher called by his mama (not by God). Dyson thinks blacks cant be racist but that somehow whites can. (In reality, racism does not exist. There is only hate, and most blacks have that in spades.) This man is blind as a bat. But Maher was forced to grovel in a ridiculous display, saying his use of the word caused pain. It didnt. Hes absolutely wrong about that.

Black pain is from black anger inherited not from a legacy of racism, but from angry, single, black mothers and grandmothers, and by weak, phony, black men and women posing as preachers and leaders.

Millions watched Maher sit and take it while gangsta rapper Ice Cube and black female loudmouth Symone Sanders spewed guilt trips at Bill to try to shame all whites out of using our word, citing how blacks were allegedly beaten and raped by white slave masters who supposedly also called them the so-called N-word. None of this has anything to do with Bill or blacks or whites today.

Bill did not look a bit fooled, yet he sat there with his mouth shut and let them speak their madness. It was truly painful to watch. As Marvin Gaye sang, Oh what a shame such a sad way to live.

There have been enough exaggerated slave movies and fake news about racism to make it seem like the fairytale of black people suffering at the hands of white people is real and present. As Dinesh DSouza said, black slave masters treated their blacks much more harshly than white masters.

Today, blacks are raping, robbing, beating and killing whites (not to mention one another) at alarming rates, as blacks dominate interracial crime rates and violent crime numbers generally (for the latest incidents of black cruelty, check out Colin Flaherty on YouTube). But blacks are coddled in liberal academic environments, and theyre encouraged to express open hostility toward white people. Blacks falsely accuse innocent whites of racism and murder, and they never give them the benefit of the doubt. Yet blacks turn around and complain about racial profiling and injustice.

I didnt hear the so-called N-word growing up in the South during the Jim Crow era. But now, angry black people call me the N-word every day (as well as Uncle Tom, sellout, Uncle Ruckus, coon, King Coon, Coon of the Year and other truth-teller nicknames), and many of them wish harm on me. Blacks call one another the N-word in anger and camaraderie you hear it in the halls at public schools, media and entertainment. I sometimes scare my white audiences by saying the N-word to break the spell of fear it has on them.

Blacks hate whites saying the so-called N-word because blacks dont want whites to be free of guilt and fear.

When Barack Obama was in office, I wrote a Second Emancipation Proclamation for Whites, freeing them from their enslavement to fear and false guilt about racism that has never existed. Then they can stand up with courage to fight evil. I urge white people to pray, look within and wake up before its too late to save our country.

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On Saturday June 10, three Acton-Boxborough Outdoor Track relay teams competed in the New England championship meet at Norwell High School.

All three A-B relay teams medaled at New Englands, finishing within the top six in their events. To qualify for the New England Championship, the relay teams finished within the top six at the Massachusetts All-State meet on June 3.

The girls 4x400 meter relay team (Sara Mitchell, Alex Saganich, Samantha Friborg, and Samantha Cannarozzi) placed third with a time of 3:58.84, behind Ridgefield Connecticut and Westerly Rhode Island.

Coach Kenneth Feit said, The girls were outstanding. They were focused and determined. It was also an excellent way to compete the season, and for seniors Sara Mitchell and Sam Cannarozzi to finish their high school careers. So proud of all of them.

The boys 4x400 relay team of seniors Matt Antes, Brendan Flaherty, Ben Rubin, and Colin Grip, placed fifth at 3:21.07.

Coach Brian Crossman said, They just missed the 6-year-old school record by an agonizing one hundredth of a second. The boys 4x800 relay (seniors Patrick Nero and Jack Culhane, sophomore Gabe Lundy, and junior Jack Gardiner) placed sixth with a time of 8:00.36.

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PUSH Physical Theatre's version of "Jekyll and Hyde," which is a hybrid of both theater and dance. Video by Jamie Germano

Alexa Scott Flaherty of Brighton(Photo: IMMAGINE PHOTOGRAPHY)

Alexa Scott-Flaherty is about to turn a Shakespeare play on its ear. Think original songs, the Jazz Age and not a single male actor.

Her challenging, new production of Twelfth Night will kick off the 68th season of Blackfriars Theatre this September. But auditions take place on Sunday and Monday and remember, no men need apply.

In the play, a shipwrecked twin, Viola, fearing her brother dead, masquerades as a man to procure a job with Duke Orsino. The resulting topsy-turvy love triangle is filled with gender-bending mayhem and mistaken identities. Scott-Flaherty, who lives in Brighton, will stay true to the original plot. But it wont look or sound like traditional productions.

It will be set in the Roaring Twenties, a decision I made because I wanted the audience to find it more accessible than the Elizabethan period, she says.

The audience will feel as if they are in a jazz club, and there will be live music on stage during the entire play.

Five original songs by musical director Andy Pratt will be introduced into the story. And then theres the issue of gender.

In Shakespeares time, men played all of the female roles, like Cleopatra and Juliet, and (audiences) accepted it, she points out. Her all-female production will reverse that tradition.

Im not sure how the audience will react. When you see men being played by women behaving lecherously, maybe theyll be able to laugh more at it.

PUSH collaboration on 'Dracula' highlights Blackfriars season

Twelfth Night poster(Photo: Provided)

Blackfriars artistic and managing director Danny Hoskins trusts her instincts.

Blackfriars Artistic Director Danny Hoskins.(Photo: Provided)

Some directors demand everything should be done their way, he says, but she is a team player, has her own ideas and leads with her own concept, but brings everyone into the fold to create and excite and exceed.

Big-city background

Scott-Flaherty graduated from Vassar in 1999 as a theater major and then headed to New York City and the acting life. She made audition rounds and took acting classes from Betty Buckley, who won a Tony for her role as Grizabela in the Broadway production of Cats.

Temp jobs kept her financially afloat. She helped an irrepressible 96-year-old self-made mogul and supporter of the arts write his memoirs, and at one point did some assisting for designer Ralph Lauren.

But she also managed to perform: at The Public Theatre, SoHo Repertory Theatre, Performance Space 122, the Royal Shakespeare Company of London and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.

She became (and continues to be) a member of Labyrinth Theater Company in New York City, where she worked with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and others to support the work of new, groundbreaking artists.

He (Hoffman) was probably one of my greatest influences as an actor and director, says Scott-Flaherty.

She landed a role in the 2007 film Then She Found Me, starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick. I had a small role as a mom in a classroom scene, says Scott-Flaherty. But most amazing was the exposure she got to the production.

Id be a stand-in for Helen Hunt during rehearsal scenes so she could be off stage directing, and then she just jumped in when they filmed it. I was by her side the whole time, watching the entire process of putting together a film.

Afterwards, Colin Firth sent her a letter telling her what a great job she did on the set.

The exciting but erratic New York City life lost its luster over time as Scott-Flaherty considered marrying and raising a family with musician Jon Itkin, then her boyfriend. The two returned to their Rochester roots in 2009, and wed a year later.

Dads influence

Scott-Flaherty was hired as donor relations manager at Writers & Books, founded by her father, Joe Flaherty, who retired in June 2016.

Growing up as a Writers & Books daughter, she spent a lot of time working alongside her dad, getting to meet literary luminaries such as Allen Ginsberg, Amy Tan, Maya Angelou and Barbara Kingsolver. While she attended School of the Arts, visiting writers often stopped in to address her classes.

Scott-Flaherty says her dads ability to overcome lifes obstacles has been a remarkable inspiration. His mother who was overwhelmed by the tragic death of her husband from a heart attack, and her daughter a year later from leukemia left 3-year-old Joe and his two siblings to the care of a residential boarding school for charity cases. In first grade, he was transferred to an orphanage for fatherless boys, and his mother signed his brother and him over to the state.

My dad had no parental figures, she says. He was raised in a school and grew up like Oliver Twist. Hes writing stories about it now. But his stories are hilariously funny in the Irish way. Like Angelas Ashes.

A lot of people have goals, but there may be a gulf between having an idea and making it work. They may have fear, or think its never the right time. Our father is a person who creates his own destiny. Working with him was one of the most special things in my life.

To him, his daughters work makes perfect sense.

Ever since she was very young, she was interested in acting, says Flaherty of his daughters theatrical ambitions. Her first role was when she was 5 or 6 and played the part of a dog in a Shakespeare production, and her first lines were Arf. Arf. She rehearsed those lines over and over again, he laughs.

It is only natural and logical that she is following what she loved doing. In college she was a theater major and minored in philosophy. She has always been intellectually curious and that intellectual quality helps her analyze and look at plays in different ways.

Hoskins vision

Scene from Blackfriars Heathers: The Musical, performed in spring 2016. Artistic and managing director Danny Hoskins choice of edgier plays attract younger audiences.(Photo: Dan Howell)

When Hoskins took over as artistic and managing director of Blackfriars in July 2015, one of his primary objects was to entice larger, younger audiences with edgier offerings, and to enlarge the theaters donor base through community outreach.

We made a big shift in our audience with performances like The Wedding Singer, The Flight Before Christmas and Heathers The Musical, he says, adding that subscriptions have risen from 166 (when he took over the first season) to 289.

A Scene from Blackfriars The Wedding Singer, performed in summer 2016.(Photo: Dan Howell)

My goal for next season is 375, but the 126-seat theater sets a limit.

Partnerships with The Big Wigs, PUSH Physical Theatre and comedy groups Unleashed! Improv and Canary in a Coal Mine are meant to add more performance sizzle to the coming seasons lineup.

Hoskins envisions Blackfriars becoming a community center a place where people can gather to discuss important ideas. Watching a play brings up emotions and is a great opportunity for community discussion on important topics.

This fall, in conjunction with Twelfth Night, Blackfriars has reached out to Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley to create community programming that explores gender identity. For later in the season, a Red Cross blood drive is being planned in conjunction with Dracula.

In December, a book drive will be held with the Rochester City School District in conjunction with Little Women the Musical. And in March, a panel of experts will be available for the audience to discuss domestic abuse as a tie-in with the performance of When We Were Young.

Development manager Mary Tiballi Hoffman was recently added to the full-time staff to build its donor base, which she says has grown significantly.

We are switching to patron-centered, high-quality professional theater and engaging with other organizations, says Hoffman.

And a campaign is in the works to raise $40,000 to replace theater seating and other maintenance. So, change on stage and all around it.

Susan Trien is a Rochester-area freelance writer.

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Auditions take place at Blackfriars Theatre at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 11, with callbacks on June 12.

For more information, go to blackfriars.org or (585) 454-1260. The theaters 2017-2018 season tickets are now on sale.

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The commencement for the Class of 2017 was the last on the Sarno football field, as the district will soon build a new high school.

STOUGHTON People always ask Stoughton High Principal Juliette Miller whether she has any children.

Her answer? Only about 8,000.

On Thursday evening, she watched another 226 of them the members of Stoughton High Schools Class of 2017 don their caps and gowns and walk across the stage to claim their diplomas.

Miller said shes confident each of them will be able to accomplish their own version of success, and that theyll never stop learning.

That youll do what you love, and that you will find your purpose and live with passion, she said. Above all, regardless of your failures or success, you will be kind and show kindness to others.

She told them even the smallest gesture of kindness has the potential to change the world.

Class Valedictorian Rebecca McSweeney recalled digging out her elementary school yearbook and seeing poems written about the teachers that have now taken on a new meaning.

I saw the I in Ms. Gabriels name reads Its all in the attitude is Ms. Gabriels favorite quote, she said. It may not have seemed profound as an 11-year-old but now I see why its her favorite quote.

She said it embodies the ideals by which shes chosen to live her life. When faced with three science classes that McSweeney didnt pick in one semester during sophomore year, she persevered with a positive attitude, and the result was a decision to pursue a career in the sciences.

These traits remain valuable no matter what we decide to do, she said. We can play sports, or be in student government, or any number of passions, and this advice can guide us through it all.

The commencement was the last on the Sarno football field, as the district will soon build a new high school, Miller said.

The Graduates:

Deanna Agresti, Alyssa Allen, Nora Almajed, Djeny Alves, Marco Antunes, Hannah Araujo, Samantha Arnott, Jordan Asnes, Meagan Audlee, Liam Ayers, Lino Azul, Riley Bagley, Bertia Barbell, Michael Batte, Cameron Bean, Samantha Beaudette, Louise Belois, Lanasia Bentley Watson, Alyssa Berkowsky, Stevens Bontemps, Vandy Bontemps, Anaika Boyer, Matthew Boyle, Nia Brewster, Jocelyn Brooks, Ryan Buresh.

Angel Camilo, Cameron Carpenter, William Carreiro, Tyler Cassidy, Natalie Castro, David Cellucci, Ryan Chipman, Izabella Chlus, Amelia Cochran, Colin Cochran, Alexander Cohen, Jack Connelly, Angela Connolly, Kelly Corrigan, Nicholas Corrigan, Marselis Cox, Leanne Cross, Taylor Cross, Maeve Curtis, Alexandra Cusack, Nicholas Cutler, Irlando DaRosa Jr, Dakotah Daxberger, Jennifer De Freitas, Jayme DeBerardinis, Gisselle Denneen, Elaana DePina, Jaime Diaz Santiago, Jared DiRosa, Patrick Dixon, Cameron Doherty, Jack Doherty, Megan Doherty, Ryan Dolinsky, Kieshawn Dukes, Zaria Durant.

Aaron Edwards, Jocabed Edwards, Meghan Eosco, Lorenzo Espinoza, Jarrod Falcone, Brianna Fernandez, Kaylee Ferreira, Zachary Ferreira, Jeremy Fishman, Shannon Flaherty, Michael Flynn, Anthony Foley, Goddy-Gil Fombe, Cody Fraga, Kyle Fraga, Matthew Gallagher, Amanda Gallant, Ray Garcia, Zachary Gay, Christina Gelin, Janelle Gibson, Jonathan Gibson, Francis Gilmore, Cameron Gomes, Max Goodman, Colin Goodrich, Craig Goodrich, Jaylan Gourdet, Christelle Guerrier.

Patrick Hagerty, Nicholas Hardy, Jack Havens, Lamont Holley, Madison Horner, Daniel Houraibi, Justin Hutchinson, Ayesha Imran, Salman Imran, Corey Ingemanson, Brianna Ivaldi, Andrew Iverson, Alexis Jackman, Alexander Jarasitis, Ann-Chloe Jean-Louis, Kyre John, Luke Johnson, Nyesha Johnson, Kristen Jolley, Anthony Jordan, Christelle Joseph, Kevin Joseph, Kelli Joyce, Jonathan Julien, Rayan Jumaa, Caitlin Jung, Conor Kavanagh, Kaila Keaney-Hayes, Justin Kelleher, Ryan Kilday, Harrison Kimball.

Mackenzie Lally, Gino Lanzillo, Tyrell Latouche, Jordan Lazarian, Matthew Leahy, Harrison Leal, George-Gordon Lembah, Jonathon Lessa, Loubensky Lucas, Hannah MacDonald, Jared Maher, Jay Mallen, Davis McGrath, Lindsey McGrath, Jocelyn McKenna, Natasha McLeod, Meghan McSweeney, Rebecca McSweeney, Kayla Medeiros, Kelira Mirville, Luis Monteiro, Hannah Morgan, Olivia Mulrey, Luis Nascimento, Rayquan Nelson-Brandford, Lili Njeim, Elizabeth Noe, Alecia Nunes.

Kayla Oliveira, Millenia Oliveira, Thayna Oliveira, Stephanie Ortiz, Nico Parmeggiani, Aarti Patel, Bhumi Patel, Darshi Patel, Roshni Patel, Milgely Perez Abreu, Tyrron Pierce, Ryan Pierre, Milena Pinto, Jonathan Podesta, Xeniya Ponder, Kelan Queenan, Janessa Quintana, Timothy Raeke, Xavier Rashid, Kyle-Isiah Reason, Nicholas Rego, Megan Reid, Kyle Reis, Carmencita Rivera, Samantha Roane, Alexis Robinson, Aliaya Robinson, Jacob Roman, Marissa Romano, Joshua Roos, Mia Russell, Maylin Rutherford.

Antonio Salgado, Matheus Santos, Olivia Schlehuber, Noah Schulze, Lauren Sears, Kristalyn Selden, Robert Shaughnessy, Shayla Shedin, Ross Shore, Courtney Silva, Jacqueline Silva, Phillipe Silva, Dalyza Simpson, Savannah Smith, Nicole Soncrant, Matthew St Clair, Ryan Struck, Ryan Sullivan, Izon Swain-Price, Ally Swartz, Sophie Tamarkin, James Tarchara, Graciela Terronez, Ann Sashell Thebaud, Arianna Thomas, Rashaad Thomas, Caroline Tobin, Richard Toussaint, Jacob Trieber, Brian Tucker, David Twerago, Maksim Tyrpych, Mathew Valle, Akilah Waller, Brendan Walsh, Keagan Walsh, Haroun Washington, Jada Watson, Jordan Watson, Courtney Weiner, Dylan Wilbar, Gia Williams, Caroline Woodard, Devon Wynn, Maria Yaitanes.

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