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Barn Destroyed?

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  🗞️ THE NORTHERN SHORE CHRONICLE Hearth Bay’s Voice Since 1983 ✍️ By Serena Fielding, Senior Staff Writer 📅 May 23rd, 2025 🕔 7:19 AM 🏚️ Edgefield Barn Destroyed in “Sudden Storm” – Locals Unconvinced What was once a silent piece of Hearth Bay history is now a pile of broken timber and unanswered questions. Late Thursday evening, a violent incident tore through the old Edgefield Barn just north of Highway 9, leaving the structure gutted and partially collapsed. Emergency crews arrived just before midnight, responding to what dispatch called a “localized structural event.” There was no lightning strike. No wildfire. Just noise. Light. And something no one quite agrees on. “I heard it from half a mile away,” said Tommy Griggs, who was walking his dog near the old quarry at the time. “It was like thunder, but wrong. Shorter. Meaner.” Sheriff Colleen Masterson issued a brief statement early this morning: “The barn was already structurally unsound. Last night’s wi...
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The Sky That Burned Orange

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Hearth Bay’s Voice Since 1983 ✍️ By Serena Fielding, Senior Staff Writer 📅 May 16th, 2025 🕓 8:32 PM Last Tuesday, just after sunset, Hearth Bay stood still. There were no sirens. No warnings. Just a color. A light . Orange—not fire orange. Not sunrise orange. But something stranger. Something… old , maybe. It came from above. Fast. A streak across the sky, trailing a plume of gold and embered orange that turned every window, every puddle, and every pair of eyes toward the heavens. For almost one minute, our entire town wore a glow we didn’t ask for. “It was like God left the oven light on,” said Rita Manners, who watched it from her porch near Dogwood and Fifth. “The whole street turned the color of a dying flame.” The official story, if you’re still asking for those, is that it was a high-altitude meteor . Sheriff Masterson called it “a beautiful and harmless celestial event.” The Bayridge Annex declined to comment—though their upper floor lights were on until pas...
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