Andrew Varnon
CommentatorAndrew Varnon teaches English at Greenfield Middle School in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He is also a high school tennis coach, a writer and an award-winning poet. He lives in Greenfield with his wife Lynette and two children.
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Most days, commentator and 5th grade English teacher Andrew Varnon walks to work. He approaches Greenfield Middle School from the back, where he thinks it looks more like a medieval castle than a school. He finds that an interesting coincidence. -
This fall marks the 100th anniversary of the infamous Black Sox scandal, where eight players from the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to… -
Maybe I’m just a rube.I don’t take issue with The Boston Globe for pointing a finger at the Massachusetts gaming commissioners and telling them where the… -
I show my classes a picture of a bottle of Budweiser, and in the way they respond to it -- Budweiser, ugh! -- it strikes me that the landscape of American… -
In official state documents, we used to be referred to as “The City known as the Town of Greenfield.” Kind of embarrassing.The pragmatists on the council…
