YMCA Programs for Vets
by FREDDY GROVES
Have you been to the Y lately? Did you know there are special programs there for veterans?
The alliance between the armed forces and the YMCA goes back to 1861, in ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 6, 2015
Most Sweet it is With Unuplifted Eyes
William Wordsworth
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
To pace the ground, if path be there or none,
While a fair region round the traveller ... Continue Reading →
For whom did the Middlebury Historical Society bell toll?
It Happened in Middlebury by AGNES LUTES
The Middlebury Historical Society building’s best-kept secret may be the original bronze bell hanging in the cupola. It was installed ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 4, 2015
With My Brother
Robert Ostrom
Untying ropes from flagpoles.
Motionless, reluctant, unchanged
even by the stillness of flags
in a century of ordinary flags. How
I love to ride with my ... Continue Reading →
McCormack says first selectman must keep town on budget
To the Editor:
What part of the word “budget” doesn’t Middlebury First Selectman Ed St. John understand? In a recent article in the Waterbury paper that highlighted the Board ... Continue Reading →
Diet counselor coaches dieters
By MARJORIE NEEDHAM
Carol Montano has been helping dieters lose weight and keep it off since she first came to Middlebury in 1979. At that time, her office was in the Middlebury Hamlet. ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 3, 2015
Endtime
Anne Waldman
Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
– William Blake
Won’t come alive ever yet or again? In the mind of Endtime it looks like this: ... Continue Reading →
Mediterranean diet makes brain younger
SENIOR NEWS LINE by Matilda Charles
The Mediterranean diet has been in the news for years, but some of us aren’t sure if it offers any real benefits. Now we have a piece of the ... Continue Reading →
Middlebury Senior Center Events
Holiday closings
The Middlebury Senior Center will be closed Friday, Dec. 25, for Christmas and Friday, Jan. 1, for New Year’s Day.
How to buy a new computer
Our computer expert, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 2, 2015
Sinking into the Leopard Pillow
Gillian Conoley
I threw out everything that didn’t give me a spark
and hung all the whites on the table.
Greens and deep dirt browns and grays.
The ... Continue Reading →
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