Now here’s a tip

NOW HERE’S A TIP By JoAnn Derson “Shower hooks, the rings used to hang your shower curtain, also can be used in the coat closet to hang bags and such. You can install a ... Continue Reading →

Tremors aren’t always sign of Parkinson’s

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH By Keith Roach M.D. DEAR DR. ROACH: I have been diagnosed with essential tremor. Propranolol 10 mg has not helped. Sometimes I can write and eat with no shaking, ... Continue Reading →

Making the most of cat’s 9 lives

Paws Corner by Sam Mazzotta DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I’m extremely curious about the average lifespan of cats. Years ago my husband found a stray kitten about 6 weeks old. Skeezix ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – March 4, 2016

Cut Lilies Noah Warren More than a hundred dollars of them. It was pure folly. I had to find more glass things to stuff them in. Now a white and purple cloud is breathing in each corner of ... Continue Reading →

Poem a Day – 09-15-2014

Poem a Day: New and classic poems provided by the Academy of American Poets Lion Felling a Bull Robyn Schiff I came upon a fragment, one anterior lion felling one anterior bull. I ... Continue Reading →

Poem a Day – 09-14-2014

Poem a Day: New and classic poems provided by the Academy of American Poets Black Horizons Carl Sandburg Black horizons, come up. Black horizons, kiss me. That is all; so many lies; ... Continue Reading →

Two fundraising events set for Middlebury Dog Park

Saturday, Sept. 13, members of the Middlebury Dog Park Committee were handing out flyers at the Middlebury transfer station to announce their next two fundraisers for a dog park in ... Continue Reading →

St. John of the Cross Apple Harvest Festival Sunday

The St. John of the Cross Annual Apple Harvest Festival will be Sunday, Sept. 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Shepardson Community Center at 1172 Whittemore Road in Middlebury. As if on ... Continue Reading →

Poem a Day – 09-13-2014

Poem a Day: New and classic poems provided by the Academy of American Poets from The Princess [Come Down, O Maid] Alfred Tennyson Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height: What ... Continue Reading →

Poem a Day – 09-12-2014

Poem a Day: New and classic poems provided by the Academy of American Poets Dammerung Simon Armitage In later life I retired from poetry, ploughed the profits into a family restaurant in ... Continue Reading →