Spring in like a ... goat?

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Issue of March 27, 2009 / 2 Nissan 5769

An unusual player visited the basketball court at the Yeshiva of South Shore early Friday, the first day of spring: a goat. It belongs to a neighbor of the yeshiva who brought the animal to winter in Hewlett from an upstate farm where it usually resides. The goat managed to open a gate and wander off, perhaps to celebrate the changing of the season with some baaasketball. A yeshiva employee tied the goat to a pole to await the arrival of police officers who brought it home.

— Mayer Fertig