A Sporting View – Baseball closer time has come

#MIDDLEBURY By Mark Vasto Every year, you are given a task. That task is to vote. While some would say the task is an easy one, you know better. For your Hall of Fame vote is all that ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 16, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Age of Beauty Emilia Phillips This is not an age of beauty, I say to the Rite-Aid as I pass a knee-high plastic witch whose speaker-box laugh is tripped by my calf breaking ... Continue Reading →

Connecticut BBB offers tips for losing weight, not money

#MIDDLEBURY Understand what you will get before signing a health club or gym contract CROMWELL, Conn. – Many people who want to lose weight in the New Year consider joining a health ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 15, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Biking to the George Washington Bridge Alicia Ostriker It sweeps away depression and today you can’t tell the heaped pin-white cherry blossoms abloom along Riverside ... Continue Reading →

Sports Quiz – Jan. 14, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY By Chris Richcreek Who was the first San Diego Padres player to hit for the cycle? How many no-hitters did Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver toss during his career? When ... Continue Reading →

Winning Ways – How do you make people feel?

#MIDDLEBURY Insights for Constructive Living by Pat Iannuzzi We all regularly interact with other people in both social and work situations. From the moment we first meet someone, a ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 14, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Now Robert Browning Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, – so you ignore, So you make perfect the ... Continue Reading →

Veterans Post – VA podcasts get a thumbs up

#MIDDLEBURY by Freddy Groves The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a weekly podcast titled “This Week at VA” that includes benefit information and interviews with ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 13, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Earthy Anecdotes Wallace Stevens Every time the bucks went clattering Over Oklahoma A firecat bristled in the way. Wherever they went, They went clattering, Until they swerved, In ... Continue Reading →

It Happened in Middlebury – Middlebury’s Religious Institutions – Part 2

#MIDDLEBURY By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD From the beginning, citizens living in the part of Waterbury that is now Middlebury were church goers. Religious societies had a central role in ... Continue Reading →