Top 10 ingredients to have on hand for easy, casual holiday entertaining

#MIDDLEBURY #HOLIDAYS (StatePoint) Grandma in town? Unexpected guests? No problem! With a little planning and the right ingredients, holiday entertaining is a snap. Stock up on these ... Continue Reading →

Middlebury Public Library book club picks for January

#MIDDLEBURY Looking ahead to January, the Brown Bag Book Group will be reading and discussing “A Dog’s Purpose” by W. Bruce Cameron. This is a remarkable story of one dog’s ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Dec. 12, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Notes on the Below Ada Limon – For Mammoth Cave National Park Humongous cavern, tell me, wet limestone, sandstone caprock, bat-wing, sightless translucent cave shrimp, this ... Continue Reading →

It Happened in Middlebury – Middlebury’s religious institutions – Part 1

#MIDDLEBURY #CONGREGATIONAL #METHODIST   By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD From the beginning, citizens living in the part of Waterbury that is now Middlebury were church goers. Religious ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Dec. 11, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY #CTPOET The Garden Helen Hoyt Do not fear. The garden is yours And it is yours to gather the fruits And every flower of every kind, And to set the high wall about it And ... Continue Reading →

Diversified Tax Tidbits – President-elect Trump and taxes

#MIDDLEBURY #TAXES by Mark A. Burns With Donald Trump having won the election and with the Republican party controlling Congress, there is a good chance we will see some tax changes ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Dec. 10, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Historic Flaws Bianca Stone I am going to the mountains where the alternating universe of autumn descends over you at an erotic squat. Out of that blank and meaningless ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – Boxing fans should keep their money in the bank

By Mark Vasto In the halcyon days of the 1970s and ’80s, a car company then called Datsun used to saturate the airwaves during televised sporting events. Famous for its sporty ... Continue Reading →

Sports Quiz – Dec. 9, 2016

By Chris Richcreek Questions Name the two Pittsburgh Pirates to have recorded 150 home runs and 150 steals. In 1973, the first year of the designated hitter, the American League set ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Dec. 9, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Eros Ralph Waldo Emerson The sense of the world is short, – Long and various the report, – To love and be beloved; Men and gods have not outlearned it; And, ... Continue Reading →