10 years ago:
The consolidation of Wilmington and Whitingham elementary schools was the top topic at the Wilmington School District pre-Town Meeting. Among the benefits the board touted was eligibility for substantial state aid for school renovation. Under a state school...
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Skiing can offer endless adventures. After all, each adventure – each day on the mountain – offers new and sometimes seemingly endless possibilities. One day we may enjoy perfect hardpack. Another day we might enjoy fresh powder. And sometimes, we encounter boilerplate and the challenges of...
“Two Lives” by Reeve Lindbergh. Voyage Books: Brigantine Media, 2018
This fine collection of 15 essays reflects upon the double life of Reeve Lindbergh, the youngest child of Charles Lindbergh, whose 1927 solo flight from New York to Paris made him a...
This fine collection of 15 essays reflects upon the double life of Reeve Lindbergh, the youngest child of Charles Lindbergh, whose 1927 solo flight from New York to Paris made him a...
10 years ago:
Wilmington and Whitingham school board members began talking about the idea of an elementary school merger. Five years earlier, the two towns merged their middle and high schools to create the Twin Valley Joint School District. Whitingham board member Ed...
Wilmington and Whitingham school board members began talking about the idea of an elementary school merger. Five years earlier, the two towns merged their middle and high schools to create the Twin Valley Joint School District. Whitingham board member Ed...
I recently read a very seminal quote, (in the hospice newsletter) “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” It is a quote from Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher. I had to read it over several times before it finally made sense to me. What a timely thought that is: in the New...
GERMANY - In 1933, Resi Strauss was working as a nanny in Fulda, Germany, when, in the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door. It was the Sturmabteilung, or SA, also known as the Brownshirts, and they were looking for the father of the children Resi was looking after. Told that the...
Most skiers prefer powder tracks to cat tracks. This photo was taken Wednesday, February 13, at Mount Snow. Photo by Brett Miller
Sometimes catwalks, or cat tracks, smaller mountain connecting trails, feel monotonous. Other times they seem dangerous. Whether friendly and playful or narrow and intimidating many mountains possess these connecting trails. Crossing Stratton recently as I headed to meet my wife Cheryl at the mid...
WOODFORD - At a public meeting on Monday, Jaclyn Comeau, a wildlife biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, gave a presentation about the Deerfield Wind Black Bear Study. The study, which is ongoing, seeks to determine whether the region’s black bear population will be affected...
I serve on Senate Judiciary in the morning and chair Senate Government Operations in the afternoon. Both committees, as is true with all the Senate committees, are busy reviewing what has happened since last year, tackling new issues, and following up on ones that didn’t get resolved last...
10 years ago:
The so-called Tri-Town Economic Development Committee, or TED-C, scrambled to regroup after Whitingham selectboard members dropped a bombshell on the committee, announcing that they would not include $17,000 in requested funding in their 2010 budget. The...
The so-called Tri-Town Economic Development Committee, or TED-C, scrambled to regroup after Whitingham selectboard members dropped a bombshell on the committee, announcing that they would not include $17,000 in requested funding in their 2010 budget. The...
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