P&Z to review Southford Road grocery store

By TERRENCE S. MCAULIFFE The Middlebury Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) on Jan. 7 scheduled public hearings for Thursday, Feb. 4, for site plan approval, excavation and grading ... Continue Reading →

P&Z considers gas station makeover

By TERRENCE S. MCAULIFFE The Middlebury Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) on Jan. 7 reviewed a site plan application by Mir Sabbir Ahmed D/B/A Sabbir Properties LLC of Terryville ... Continue Reading →

Donate to help dogs and cats this weekend

Middlebury Police Cadet Sgt. Jack Cronin is asking area residents to help our furry friends by donating items for dogs and cats Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 16 and 17, from 9 a.m. to ... Continue Reading →

Diana Riggs Genung Obituary

Woodbury resident, Taft School dorm parent Diana Riggs Genung died peacefully Jan. 11, 2016, surrounded by her family, at the Parlin House Hospice Residence in Wayland, Mass., following ... Continue Reading →

Pomperaug wins the battle of the Panthers

By KEN MORSE Special to the Middlebury Bee Intelligencer The Pomperaug Panthers boys’ basketball team has been racking up games in the win column by comfortable margins. Last ... Continue Reading →

Sports Quiz – Jan. 12, 2016

SPORTS QUIZ By Chris Richcreek Questions When was the last time before 2015 that the Detroit Tigers started a season 6-0? Who had more stolen bases in his career: George Brett or ... Continue Reading →

Nonalcoholic fatty liver is increasingly common

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH By Keith Roach, M.D. DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 59 years old and am having problems with my lower abdomen. After colonoscopy and ultrasound, my doctor called to say I ... Continue Reading →

Statewide energy contest for students K to college

  NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (Jan. 11, 2016) – Eversource and The United Illuminating Company, as partners of the Energize Connecticut initiative, are accepting entries for the 12th ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 11, 2016

Thin Ice Ellen Dore Watson Reedy striations don’t occlude the beneath- earthy mash of leaves, flat pepper flakes, layered, tips protruding, tender-desolate above a mirror surface, ... Continue Reading →

Singing, music help with dementia

SENIOR NEWS LINE by Matilda Charles Researchers revealed a year ago that singing could greatly help Parkinson’s disease patients with breathing, speaking and memory. Now researchers ... Continue Reading →