Crimson Tide blank Bulldogs, up win streak

By Lorenzo Recupero

The Crimson Tide and first-year head coach Justin Flores activated their first win streak of the season Friday night.

Following the 35-0 shutout victory over the Lynn English Bulldogs, the Tide are riding a two-game winning streak heading into Friday’s clash with undefeated BC High School (3-0).

After posting 21 points in the season-opener, the Crimson Tide (2-1) offense has bounced back averaging 47 points per game. The defense has boosted the operation, proving its formidableness with two consecutive shutouts.

Leading the Crimson Tide charge on the ground in the win over Lynn were seniors Damien Lackland and Chris Zamor, combining for all five of Everett’s touchdowns and 243 rushing yards.

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— Eye on Everett —

By JOSH RESNEK with THE BLUE SUIT

The Blue Suit and Josh Resnek have become good friends and confidantes over the past few years. They have shared everything about themselves with each other – their secrets, their fears, their hopes, their triumphs and their failures. Again and again, I, Josh Resnek, editor of the Leader Herald, want our readers to know how intimate the relationship is between me and the favorite Blue Suit of the most powerful man in the city of Everett.

There are those who claim the Blue Suit is a figment of my imagination – and he is, always has been, and always will be. Then there is the Blue Suit himself, arguing with me, and with others, that he has all the attributes of a living, breathing, snorting, eating, sweating, human being even though he is an off the rack, machine made, blue cloth suit. That’s hard to take for some people, and I am told that many others believe the Blue Suit is as real as say, President Biden or former President Donald Trump, and that he speaks with authority, and that he knows public policy, and that he could probably run for office in Everett as a write-in and win.

So in one respect the Blue Suit is a fiction, made up and all about unreality.

On the other hand, he is as real as you and me and he has a certain lifelike appeal to many of our readers.

How many people read the Blue Suit?

This is impossible to know.

There are questions about the Blue Suit that I have been asked about which I do not know.

For instance, one of his admirers asked me recently where the Blue Suit banks.

“I really don’t know. I’ll ask him,” I told that person, a woman reader of the Leader Herald who claims she enjoys the Blue Suit’s personality.

So I asked him: “Where do you bank your money? And also, how much money do you have? And how do you keep your money?”

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Flores, Crimson Tide drop opener to Xaverian

By Lorenzo Recupero

Crimson Tide Football and its newest head coach finally got a taste of real-time football.

The Everett High football season opened Friday against Xaverian High School, and although the Tide went down, 32-21, it did so not without a fight.

Falling behind 17-6 at halftime, the Crimson Tide (0-1) fought back in the second half, nearly taking the win away from third-ranked Xaverian.

First-year EHS Head Coach Justin Flores did not get his first win at the helm for the Crimson Tide, but regardless of the outcome, he was happy to get his feet wet and the EHS football season off the ground.

“It felt great to get underway with an official game,” said Flores. “Scrimmages were limited in terms of reps and what we were doing on both sides of the ball. [We’re] looking forward to moving on from Friday’s game and getting back on the field for another test this week,” said Flores, who will play his first home game at Veterans Memorial Stadium against Greater Boston League opponent Somerville High School (0-1).

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Around the city…

Good deals offered at McKinnon’s last week. (Photo by Joe Resnek)

How is it done?

How is it McKinnon’s can have such incredible money saving deals during this time of inflation?

Are the owners magicians? Are they geniuses? Are they fools?

Of course not.

The folks creating the prices at McKinnon’s for their products are simply not gougers. They are not into ripping off their hard working customers.They know their clientele. They make a super effort to remain profitable without gouging their customers.

What is happening now across the nation, literally everywhere for everything, is price gouging during a time of inflation.

What McKinnon’s does can be done everywhere but it isn’t.

Most corporations will charge much higher prices until their customers rebel or nearly go broke, and when business is hurt, prices will naturally come down.

At McKinnon’s, the folks who do the buying and who set the prices have a devotion to savings they wish to pass on to their customers.

Shop at McKinnon’s!

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School overcrowding

Suffice to say, not much has been done by the city to reduce over crowding in the public schools and now a new school year is upon us.

The overcrowding situation might have been relieved partially before the opening of schools this year, or might be well on its way toward improvement.

This has not yet happened.

The city is required to reduce the overcrowding in order to give everyone who attends public school here an opportunity to be educated in circumstances conducive to learning.

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