Veterans Post – VA spends big to speed disability exam claims

#MIDDLEBURY by Freddy Groves The Department of Veterans Affairs just announced it awarded $6.8 billion in contracts to improve the Medical Disability Examination process and get veterans’ ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Nov. 4, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Imperatives for Carrying on in the Aftermath Natasha Trethewey Do not hang your head or clench your fists when even your friend, after hearing the story, says: My mother ... Continue Reading →

John J. DeAngelis Obituary

#MIDDLEBURY #DEANGELISOBITUARY Mr. John Joseph DeAngelis of Middlebury passed away Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, at his home. Mr. DeAngelis was born in Waterbury, a son of the late Julia N. ... Continue Reading →

Newtown slips away from Panthers

#MIDDLEBURY #SOUTHBURY #PHSJUNGLE By Ken Morse – Special to the Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer The Newtown Nighthawks used the final 10 minutes of the Oct. 28 game to slip away ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Nov. 3, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Descent of the Composer Airea D. Matthews When I mention the ravages of now, I mean to say, then. I mean to say the rough-hewn edges of time and space, a continuum that ... Continue Reading →

Southbury Library closed for regular business Election Day

#SOUTHBURY #ELECTIONDAY #LIBRARY The Southbury Public Library will be closed for regular library business on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8. It will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. for ... Continue Reading →

Senior News Line – Thinking of going back to work?

#SENIORS #MIDDLEBURY by Matilda Charles If you’ve considered going back to work, either for financial reasons or to have something to do, there are a number of jobs that might ... Continue Reading →

PHS student starts Italian Club

#PHS #MIDDLEBURY #SOUTHBURY By MARISSA MATOZZO “Ciao! Benvenuto!” Kaitlyn Kelly, a Pomperaug High School (PHS) world language teacher, greets Pomperaug students with a traditional ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Nov. 2, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Talisman Marianne Moore Under a splintered mast, torn from ship and cast near her hull, a stumbling shepherd found embedded in the ground, a sea-gull of lapis lazuli, a ... Continue Reading →

Middlebury Public Library – Reading takes you places

The Middlebury Public Library is looking ahead to December as a month for readers to travel to different countries and states through book club picks and related titles. As Jhumpa Lahiri ... Continue Reading →