January 29, 2009 RSS feed / Features

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Common Talk

Good Neighbors
By JANE E. BRYANT The Northfield News
JUST WHEN I was thinking of deleting this column's commontalk@trans- Jv i d e o . n e t address because no one had used it lately, this report came in from Nancy E. More...

News From the Roxbury Library

By SUSAN D'AMICO Roxbury Free Library

WHAT A WONDERFUl inauguration day celebration we had last Tuesday. With the help from two friends at the library, Craig Vincent and Scott Berg, we tried a variety of set ups to receive the broadcast from Washington, D.C. More...

Did You Know?

In 2003, Vermont produced 430,000 gallons of maple syrup Maple syrup is an organic product containing as much calcium as whole milk, along with other minerals and vitamins B2, B5, B6, niacin, biotin, and folic acid. More...

Silly Social Scenes

'Satire is what closes on Saturday night.' George S. Kaufman
By WOOTEN BASSETT POUGHKEEPSIE Substitute Columnist

LETTER FROM THE WHIG 19 MINUS 1 - As the smoke-signal delivery system has come a cropper, owing to the temporary incapacity of the receiver (and, one is forced to admit, to the somewhat uncertain hands of the sender), More...

FROM THE HILL

By LISA BRUCKEN Norwich University

Rick Van Arnam, a Northfield resident and Associate Vice President for Development, is leaving Norwich to serve full-time in the Vermont National Guard. More...