Poem A Day – April 17, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Blueacre Monica Youn Lamentation (Martha Graham, 1930) What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? Lamentations 2:13 Wordless, ceaseless, a ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – April 16, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Last Sleep Best Sleep Brenda Shaughnessy Life, this charade of not-death. Amnesiac of our nights together, overheard talking in some other voice. The great fruits of my ... Continue Reading →

Lorilee M. (Perugini) Niles Obituary

Daughter of Louis and Judy Perugini Lorilee M. (Perugini) Niles, 51, of South Britain entered into eternal rest Wednesday, April 13, 2016. She was the beloved mother of Tyler J. Niles. ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – April 15, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Here Kim Addonizio After it ended badly it got so much better which took a while of course but still he grew so tender & I so grateful which maybe tells you something ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – April 13, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Pastoral William Carlos Williams The little sparrows Hop ingenuously About the pavement Quarreling With sharp voices Over those things That interest them. But we who are ... Continue Reading →

Antonazzo 1 hits Danbury; timely hitting carries Panthers

By KEN MORSE Special to the Middlebury Bee Intelligencer #MIDDLEBURY #REGION15 The spring season finally got under way in spite of Mother Nature’s attempt to curtail even more ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – April 12, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Mid-Day H.D. The light beats upon me. I am startled – a split leaf crackles on the paved floor – I am anguished – defeated. A slight wind shakes the seed-pods ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – April 11, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Ota Benga at Edankraal Yusef Komunyakaa Maybe it was hog-killing time when he arrived in Lynchburg, Virginia, several lifetimes behind him, the old smell of the monkey house at ... Continue Reading →

Peter Ernest Smith Obituary

Brother of Marilee Dabkowski Peter Ernest Smith, 55, of Lebanon, Conn., passed away March 5, 2016, at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford after a courageous battle with a long illness. He ... Continue Reading →

Marlene C. Kasidas Obituary

  Loving wife, mother and grandmother Mrs. Marlene C. (Charette) Kasidas, 74, of Watertown passed away Thursday, April 7, at Waterbury Hospital after a six-month courageous battle ... Continue Reading →