Resilient seniors hope to turn Panthers around

#MIDDLEBURY #SOUTHBURY #PHS #PANTHERS By KEN MORSE Last year’s Pomperaug football season left a lasting impression on the players who weathered the storm. The Panthers went 0-10, ... Continue Reading →

Sports Quiz – Sept. 3, 2016

By Chris Richcreek Questions In 2015, Alex Rodriguez became the fourth major-league player to hit a home run as a teenager and as a 40-year-old. Name two of the other three to do it. Name ... Continue Reading →

It Happened in Middlebury – MVFD Part III

#MIDDLEBURY #MVFD By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD Two earlier articles covered the Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department prior to the department’s formation in 1941 and extending into the ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Sept. 3, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Hothouse Raymond McDaniel A rose, rose. A violet, violet. A jade, jade. No. The architecture of each, a refusal. Rose is not rose nor violet violet nor jade jade. But each ... Continue Reading →

Spotlight on Middlebury Land Trust properties – September 2016

#MIDDLEBURY By JANINE SULLIVAN-WILEY The August photo was of Brookdale Farm, (also known as Fenn’s Farm). It was recognized by quite a few folks! Congratulations to Joyce Errichetti, ... Continue Reading →

Parade celebrates MVFD anniversary

#MIDDLEBURY #MVFD By MARISSA MATOZZO “It’s our 75th anniversary!” fireman Brian Proulx said with a smile as the Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department assembled for their Aug. ... Continue Reading →

Perrotti sentenced, to appeal

#MIDDLEBURY #MVFD #PERROTTI By MARJORIE NEEDHAM Middlebury’s former fire chief, Paul Perrotti, 49, was sentenced in New Haven Aug. 29 to three months in prison followed by three ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Sept. 2, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Ars Poetica Leslie McGrath To have even a lotto chance of getting somewhere within yourself you don’t quite know but feel To cling to the periphery through the constant gyroscopic re-drawing ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Sept. 1, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Draft of a Landscape Juliet Patterson after Paul Celan The hare’s dust pelt against the juniper’s sky now in the eye uncovered a question clear in the wing of ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Aug. 31, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Night Crossing Ron Slate Back and forth is a way to move when the visible is spacious. But what’s the state of the last boat, lightly loaded and unprofitable? Tied ... Continue Reading →