Poem A Day – Jan. 9, 2017
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Music from Childhood
John Yau
You grow up hearing two languages. Neither fits your fits
Your mother informs you “moon” means “window to another world.”
You ... Continue Reading →
Students win fire poster contest
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Middlebury Fire Marshal Jack Proulx announced the winners of the 2016-2017 Annual Fire Prevention Poster Contest. Cash prizes were donated by the Middlebury Volunteer ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 8, 2017
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I Am the Whole Defense
Mai Der Vang
Mid-1700s, Southwestern China
Lightning is the creature who carries a knife.
Two months now,
The rains hold watch.
Statues bury in teak
Smeared ... Continue Reading →
P&Z approves car wash
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By TERRENCE S. MCAULIFFE
The Middlebury Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) at its Dec.1 meeting approved a car wash on Straits Turnpike and a sign for the new Alltown ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 7, 2017
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Winter Trees
William Carlos Williams
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus ... Continue Reading →
Middlebury Land Trust properties offer winter fun
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By JANINE SULLIVAN-WILEY
Many favorite activities on Middlebury Land Trust (MLT) properties aren’t really well suited (or even possible) in mid-winter, but other ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 6, 2017
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To Winter
William Blake
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark
Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,
Nor bend thy ... Continue Reading →
Middlebury Senior Center January 2017 Events
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Holiday closing
The Middlebury Senior Center will be closed Monday, Jan. 16, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Driver safety program
The next AARP Driver Safety Course will ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 5, 2017
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My Father’s Tie Rack
Joan Larkin
Back of the door to his dark closet,
eye height, with clever steel
pegs I could flip both ways.
A row of pendulums. Of tongues.
Words, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 4, 2017
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I Have Not Come Here to Compare Notes But to Sit Together in the Stillness at the Edge of This Wound
David Kirby
Asked if it isn’t weird to be at an awards ceremony ... Continue Reading →
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