Budget votes Wednesday, May 4

Don’t forget to vote Wednesday, May 4, between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Middlebury voters will vote on two questions: Town budget of $10.4 million Regional School District 15 budget ... Continue Reading →

EIDC approves funeral home design

By TERRENCE S. MCAULIFFE The Middlebury Economic and Industrial Development Commission (EIDC) at its April 26 meeting unanimously approved the design of the proposed Albini Funeral ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – May 3, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY My Grandmother’s Love Letters Hart Crane There are no stars tonight But those of memory. Yet how much room for memory there is In the loose girdle of soft rain. There ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – May 2, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY  A Sunset Ari Banias I watch a woman take a photo of a flowering tree with her phone. A future where no one will look at it, perpetual trembling which wasn’t and ... Continue Reading →

Cat adoption center to open in Southbury

The Cat Adoption Center in Southbury will hold a grand opening Saturday, May 14. (Marjorie Needham photo) By MARJORIE NEEDHAM Caroline Abate of Rose Hope Rescue Inc. has found a home ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – May 1, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Persistence of Vision: Televised Confession Solmaz Sharif You are like a daughter to me – the prisoner’s mother tells me. Meal by meal she sets then clears. ... Continue Reading →

Pomperaug stuns Bethel in unlikely fashion

#MIDDLEBURY #PHS #PANTHERS By Ken Morse Special to the Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer The late great Yogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over ’till it’s over.” The Pomperaug ... Continue Reading →

Antonazzo throwing zeros to lead Lady Panthers

#MIDDLEBURY #PHS #PANTHERS By Ken Morse Special to the Middlebury Bee Intelligencer The Pomperaug softball team doesn’t need to worry about a flawless defense in the field or timely ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – April 30, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Haunts Carl Sandburg There are places I go when I am strong. One is a marsh pool where I used to go with a long-ear hound-dog. One is a wild crabapple tree; I was there a ... Continue Reading →

May Spotlight on Middlebury Land Trust properties

By JANINE SULLIVAN-WILEY Congratulations to Anne Marie Niesobecki, the first person to correctly identify April’s mystery photo as Sperry Pond. Also correct, and the first to ... Continue Reading →