Who’s going to tell them?

Time for fisticuffs!

Those are a few responses posted locally on Facebook this past week, after the Irish Star newspaper published a story just after the March 17 holiday congratulating marchers in Hot Springs, AK, for walking “just under 98 feet in world’s shortest St. Patrick’s Day parade,” according to the headline.

Only one problem: Adamsville’s parade, measured to the inch by Little Compton Historical Society director Marjory O’Toole, has Hot Springs beat by nearly nine feet.

This year’s parade in Adamsville drew an estimated 2,000 people and was topped off with a concert by Green Road, a traditional Irish band based out of the Emerald Isle.

We don’t know where the Irish Star got its info, and so far a reporter’s inquiry has gone unanswered. But in the meantime, locals posted their disapproval on the Adamsville parade’s Facebook page, with Diane MacGregor, grand marshal along with her husband Dave, offering to help spread some truth:

“Dave and I hope to head to Hot Springs next March and set the record straight!