February 4, 2010 / Features

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Common Talk

Signs in the Sky
IT’S FORTUNATE that I heard Ken Squier talking about sundogs last Saturday on his Music to Go the Dump By radio show or I might have thought the vision in front of me was my personal invitation to The Other Side. Mr. More...

Representative View

By MAXINE GRAD Representative, D, Northfield, Roxbury, Moretown

IDEDICATED MOST of my work this past week on veteran’s issues. I had the honor of introducing to the House Northfield’s Brenda Cruickshank who is a VFW Judge Advocate and State Legislative liaison. More...

Kids Korner

The Snow Image
By S. RIZZOTTO

ONE AFTERNOON of a cold winter's day, two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new-fallen snow. The older child was a little girl, so tender and modest that every one called her Violet. More...

Thoughts of an Average Joe

Heavy Kids
By JOE WRIGHT

IWAS DRIVING to work one day last winter and passed a group of middle school aged kids waiting for the school bus. What I saw there, in the group of a dozen, or so, youngsters, concerned me. More...

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

COUP ATTEMPT FAILS; 3 SELECTMEN CHASTISED – Oh, my, gentle readers, hasn’t the last sennight been an EXCITING one? More...