March 4, 2010 RSS feed / Features

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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. More...

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). More...

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. 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

FURTHER NUKULAR FALLOUT – Another casualty of the leak of televactive terribilium from the Vermont Cranky Ante- Nukular plant has become known. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...