Cold start to a new year

Springfielders greeted 2009 with the coldest midnight so far this season, 2 degrees F.
With winds up to 17 mph in places, windchill factors were as cold as minus-28 degrees.
It didn't feel much warmer eleven hours later when the Southern Vermont Health and Recreation Center hosted a chilly New Year's Day 5K Fun Run and Walk. 52 brave entrants showed up for the race. The 5 kilometer course began on Clinton Street where the Rec center is located, turned up Bridge Street and looped back around to Wall Street and Summer Street before continuing back down Bridge Street to the finish line. A reception followed for the participants in the historic Foundry Building on the Rec Center property.