DEEP delays boat launch re-opening

#MIDDLEBURY Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) said there will be a delay in re-opening the state boat launch on the Branford River in Branford. ... Continue Reading →

Paws Corner – Picking the perfect cat

#MIDDLEBURY By Sam Mazzotta DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I’m really excited – my mom has decided we can get a kitten! We’re going to adopt one from the local shelter. Do you ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Nov. 16, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Love Songs (Section III) Mina Loy We might have coupled In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment Or broken flesh with one another At the profane communion table Where wine ... Continue Reading →

Middlebury ceremony honors new police chief

#MIDDLEBURY #POLICE Middlebury’s police chief, Francis (Fran) Dabbo, who was sworn in by Town Clerk Edith Salisbury earlier this year, was sworn in by Police Commissioner George ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Nov. 15, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Ducks Sat Michele Glazer Where ducks sat we sat next And wanted to be Dutch. If we would walk upright and not Glance right or left the intersections Would not come at us Sideways, ... Continue Reading →

Harwell runs wild, Pomperaug stomps Bethel

#POMPERAUG #MIDDLEBURY #POMP_CHEER #POMPJUNGLE_16 By Ken Morse – Special to the Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer The Pomperaug Panthers went out Nov. 11 and played their best game ... Continue Reading →

Middlebury to swear in police chief tonight

#MIDDLEBURY #POLICE The Middlebury Police Commission invites the public to attend the swearing-in ceremony for its new chief, Fran Dabbo. Dabbo will be sworn in today, Monday, Nov. ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Nov. 14, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Psalm Paisley Rekdal Too soon, perhaps, for fruit. And the broad branches, ice-sheathed early, may bear none. But still the woman waits, with her ladder and sack, for something ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Nov. 13, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY from “Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus” Anais Duplan Let us enter this again. In the context of this paragraph, we are hurtling backward through space, ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – Fixing Baseball Hall of Fame omissions

#MIDDLEBURY By Mark Vasto The Baseball Writers of America Association (BBWAA) have fixed a few glaring Hall of Fame omissions over the past several years. The inclusion of Mike Piazza, ... Continue Reading →