Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
It was the kind of news Ken Benton was glad to share.
Benton got to inform two of his Amsterdam wrestlers — 135-pounder Giuseppi Lanzi and 160-pounder John Paris — that they had been awarded wild-card entries Thursday into next weekend’s state wrestling championships in Rochester.
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