Poem A Day – May 10, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Causing an Accident Sarah Bartlett The moon builds its tower Sisyphean project Like a velvet landscape a velvet Elvis above the booth I want to arrive this way like resurrection in ... Continue Reading →

Skin cancer screening, sun safety tips

#Middlebury #Southbury May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and the Pomperaug District Department of Health (PDDH) reminds people it’s important to protect themselves from ultraviolet ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – May 9, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Crows Marilyn Nelson What if to taste and see, to notice things, to stand each is up against emptiness for a moment or an eternity – images collected in consciousness like ... Continue Reading →

Panthers in a slump; drop three in a row

#MIDDLEBURY #PHS By Ken Morse Special to the Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer The Pomperaug High School baseball team is in a slump of major proportions as they dropped three games this ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – May 8, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Emergency Vehicles Kay Ryan Emergency vehicles are on the way but slow ones. You will have to go on for some time. Well, years. Then one day they will suddenly arrive and ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – May 7, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Hunter Phillip B. Williams When you were mine though not mine at all permanently, just a body borrowed without permission, a body interrupted, interruptive – the sky ... Continue Reading →

Lady Panthers rally in the 7th to beat Newtown

#MIDDLEBURY #PHS By Ken Morse Special to the Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer The Pomperaug softball team managed to dodge the raindrops long enough this week to pick up two more wins, ... Continue Reading →

Winning Ways – Visualization: The power of mental rehearsal

by Pat Iannuzzi Visualization involves using our imagination to create an idea or picture in our minds of what we want to have, be or accomplish. It can be an effective technique for ... Continue Reading →

Social Security strategies change

by Matilda Charles Starting this month, May 2016, changes to Social Security will eliminate strategies seniors have used to maximize benefits. Unlike what some doom-mongers have said, ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – May 6, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Collectors Marion Strobel The barnacle of crowds – Like a tuck On a finished skirt, unnoticed – He collected his material Covertly: A ragpicker, A scavenger ... Continue Reading →