Poem A Day – Oct. 15, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY You Are a Dark Body Natalie Scenters-Zapico of water with a bed of rock barely visible from your surface. You are the only dark body of water in a desert littered with bleeding ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 14, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Dead Deer David Groff Bolt, thwarted vault, late brake, gasp of impact, temblor of thud – the beast drops on the blade of hood, ribs rip from their roots, hearts seize, the ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 13, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Time I’m Not Here Graham Foust All day on all my days, the lives I’m not to process wash in; anxieties lullaby on and quite like to be gotten among; but now ... Continue Reading →

To Your Good Health – Taking the next step in weight-loss journey

#MIDDLEBURY By Keith Roach, M.D. DEAR DR. ROACH: I have been trying to lose weight with no results. I have cut back on carbs and sugar. In general, I watch what I eat. I also go to ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 12, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY For Joe Sandra Simonds Locked in the beauty of the pearl, far from frail, these people who claim to love us still they don’t give up much, do they, sealed? To eradicate ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 11, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY A Musical Paul Laurence Dunbar Outside the rain upon the street, The sky all grim of hue, Inside, the music – painful sweet, And yet I heard but you. As is a thrilling ... Continue Reading →

Senior News Line – Why hospitals need seniors-only wards

#MIDDLEBURY by Matilda Charles Supposedly we go to the hospital to get better. Too often, however, we come out in much worse condition than when we went in. Kaiser Health News has written ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 10, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY In Particular Djuna Barnes What loin-cloth, what rag of wrong Unpriced? What turn of body, what of lust Undiced? So we’ve worshipped you a little More than Christ. About ... Continue Reading →

It Happened in Middlebury – Fenn family has long history here

By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD The Fenn family has lived in Middlebury since the late 1700s, when Samuel (ca. 1766-1852) and Concurrence (Miles) (ca. 1770-1848) Fenn bought property on the ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 9, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Someone Joseph O. Legaspi Somewhere someone rises far earlier than you before the faintest glimmer blues the darkest dark wakens without alarm without body roused by the ... Continue Reading →