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.

A day after the three-day long, weird storm of deep snow washed down with rain, fierce winds and power outages, the sun was beaming, puffy clouds ran swiftly across a clear blue sky, people were walking around the Common without a jacket, vehicles were splashing through large puddles and gurgling water could be heard in all the storm drains.

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Quote of the week: “This time of year, people want to be doing anything but what they’re currently doing.” Rick Flinn

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At the Northfield Barber Shop, Randy Peace has repaired the barber pole. He installed a new red, white and blue cylinder, which had a hole in it and replaced a bushing so the thing doesn’t wobble. He says he’s gotten many compliments on it.

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Next door to the barber, in an empty storefront, first we heard the owner is putting in a bathroom and next thing we knew, workers covered the windows with paper so folks can’t watch the progress. We’ll continue to follow this story.

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At the Norwich University School of Graduate Studies, workers seem to have finished work on the new entrance, which includes new steps, railing and finally glass doors. It looks fine.

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The spring edition of Vermont Life magazine contains a story about Jackson and Kajia Evans. You might want to check it out. Jackson’s parents are Peter and Debbie Maloney Evans of town.

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We heard this week from a woman stationed with the Army in Germany who was pleased to read four back issues of the News that her husband sent over. She said that she read them, back to back. Nothing better than a newspaper from home and a cup of coffee. We hope that readers, wherever they may be, will feel free to write in and tell us what’s going on with them.

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We know the Winter Olympics in Vancouver have gone on too long when the reporting becomes incomprehensible. Up at the Men’s Aerial (the sport where they ski off a jump curved to sky, at speeds exceeding the speed of light) one guy was going to do a “back full, triple full-full”. If he didn’t land on the back of his helmet, he might beat a competitor by twotenths of a nanosecond.

Then we had former Olympic champ, Scott Hamilton, reporting on women’s skating. He said something to the effect (the words went by too quickly to record and even he looked a bit confused and stumbled over the words) that the woman who did two triple-triple axles (we think that would be nine of something) would win unless the next ranked woman did two triple-triple axles plus a double toe loop. He said the first one’s triple-triple looked wonderful compared to the other woman’s triple-triple. Then he said he was speechless. We were too.

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