Poem A Day – Oct. 29, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY The Son I’ll Never Have Mark Wunderlich The son I’ll never have is crossing the lawn. He is lying on an imaginary bed, the coverlet pulled up over his knees ... Continue Reading →

Spotlight on Middlebury – November 2016

#MIDDLEBURY By JANINE SULLIVAN-WILEY Despite some good guesses, the October mystery photo remained a mystery: it is from the 134-acre property now owned by the town of Middlebury, ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 28, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY On Strings of Blue Cedar Sigo for Bill Berkson Was it tonight’s flirtatious remark or his exquisite song-book on stage? My outside life has turned itself in, any opening up ... Continue Reading →

Heavy hauler postpones meeting at last minute

#MIDDLEBURY #OXFORD #TOWANTICENERGYCENTER By MARJORIE NEEDHAM Barnhart Crane and Rigging of Middletown, Conn., postponed a meeting it had arranged barely an hour before the meeting ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 27, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Big Bend National Park Says No to All Walls Naomi Shihab Nye Big Bend has been here, been here. Shouldn’t it have a say? Call the mountains a wall if you must, (the ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 26, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY The Captured Goddess Amy Lowell Over the housetops, Above the rotating chimney-pots, I have seen a shiver of amethyst, And blue and cinnamon have flickered A moment, At ... Continue Reading →

Meeting Wednesday on oversize transformer transportation

#MIDDLEBURY #TOWANTICENERGYCENTER Barnhart Crane and Rigging of Middletown, Conn., has been hired, apparently by Competitive Power Ventures, to move three 343,000-pound (171.5-ton) ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 25, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Ghost Music Robert Graves Gloomy and bare the organ-loft, Bent-backed and blind the organist. From rafters looming shadowy, From the pipes’ tuneful company, Drifted ... Continue Reading →

Middlebury woman charged in knife attack

#MIDDLEBURY #POLICE Middlebury Police Chief Fran Dabbo said in a press release today that a Regan Road resident called police at about 7:50 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, to say his wife stabbed ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 24, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY [No strawberry moon] Emmy Perez No strawberry moon for me, tonight. No strawberry moon. This small house creaks when I walk and open it. I have to weigh it, to goddess or ... Continue Reading →