GREENFIELD, MA: The monthly Greater Greenfield Chamber of Commerce breakfast for July featured more than the usual scrambled eggs and choice of sausage patties or links. It featured some fine jam and preserves from Tucker Farms as well as a visit from the president of the Soylent Corporation, Ridley Jenner.

NEW YORK, NY: At a press conference outside MLB Advanced Media in Chelsea, Alex Rodriguez, Nomar Garciaparra, and Orlando Hernandez accused Major League Baseball of unfairly exploiting -- and poorly compensating -- the hispanic ball-playing population.

GREENFIELD, MA: Residents of this small western Massachusetts town were shocked to realize today that it was July 2. Why shocked? Because no one remembers the just-passed month of June.