Common Talk
Good Riddance, February
By JANE E. BRYANT
     JUST HOW MUCH did it snow last week? We’ll tell you how much it snowed. JIt snowed so much that management of Trapp Family Lodge canceled sleigh rides. Savings Bank Passport Club members were all signed up to enjoy a sleigh ride.
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Representative View
By MAXINE GRAD Representative, D, Northfield, Roxbury, Moretown
     THANK YOU for the opportunity to represent you. It is a privilege and honor, particularly in these times o funprecedented economic challenges. The legislature is determined to do what it can to help Vermonters.
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Thoughts of an Average Joe
I’d Vote For an Honest Politician
By JOE WRIGHT H
     HOW REFRESHING would it be to have an Average Joe, say Joe Schmoe, throws his hat into the political ring—any political ring—and tell it like it really is. I’d vote for a guy (or gal) who told us how he really feels, instead of what he thinks we want to hear. Imagine the following at a press conference.
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Aging In Place
Calling the Senior HelpLine
By SCOTT FUNK
     AFTER TOUTING the Senior HelpLine all these years, it seems like a good idea to find out what actually happens when someone calls 1- 800-642-5119. To find out, I called John Barbour, Executive Director of the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging (CVAA).
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The Wire
Paul Clayton,
By BILL CRONEY The Northfield News
     FOR NORTHFIELD High Boy’s hockey coach Paul Clayton the just concluded season was all about numbers. Three weeks before the season started coach Clayton wasn’t sure if he would have enough players to play a complete season.
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What’s Cooking
What Goes Around Comes Around
By PHYLLIS GREENWAY
     IHAD FUN THIS week with another old cookbook, lent by a new friend. This one is “Modern Priscilla Cook Book, copyright, 1924 by the Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston.
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Keeping In Touch
The Ship with No Name
By CHRISTINE BARNES
     THE ST. MARKS lighthouse has stood proud and tall in its present location since 1842. From its highest point, the magnificent prism lenses purchased in Paris over 150 years ago, shone out to sea fifteen miles, leaving little undisclosed to the silent tower.
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Silly Social Scenes
“As to his general character, it would not be safe to trust the representations of satirists.” Thomas Babington Macaulay
By Miss Aineeda Lobotomy Semi-Permanent Guest Columnist
      FURTHER NUKULAR FALLOUT – Another casualty of the leak of televactive terribilium from the Vermont Cranky Ante- Nukular plant has become known. Local entrepreneur Rizzard Nawabi has advised us that his water-borne enterprises, RV River Tours, Dick’s Docks, and Nawabi’s Authentic Galley Rentals were adversely affected when news of the leak leaked.
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