March 25, 2010 RSS feed / Features

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Thoughts of an Average Joe

The World is full of Stupid Drivers
By JOE WRIGHT
IS IT JUST ME or are there more stupid drivers on the road these days? I don't drive all that much. It's about five miles from my home to my workplace, so you'd think I could negotiate those ten miles a day without wanting to take a life. More...

Silly Social Scenes

“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.” Jonathan Swift
By Miss Aineeda Lobotomy, Semi-Permanent Guest Columnist

FINISHING UP FROM LAST TIME – Miss Lobotomy regrets that her last column ended so abruptly and that there was no column last week, but it was a matter over which she had no control as the two events were brought about by the Office Puppy, Sams More...

Crumb’s Corner

Bus Drivers, Pressrooms, and Walleyes
By DICK WOBBY

THERE WE ASSEMBLED, The Northfield news sports team, now I say sports team, because, Bill Croney Sports photographer and writer for the local paper, since his vacation to the far southern reaches North America has been unable to shake loose his two f More...

Representative View

By ANNE DONAHUE Representative, R, Northfield, Roxbury, Moretown

THERE ARE SIX weeks left in this legislative biennium, with long days on the floor voting on bills and squeezing in committee time to review bills coming from the Senate. More...

Common Talk

On the Common last Friday morning, So Long to March
By JANE E. BRYANT The Northfield News

THE YEAR HAS gone round and the light has come back. Some residents have reported feeling discombobulated by the changes in light at the beginning and ending of a day when there is still snow on the ground. They were not, however, complaining. More...

The Wire

Jack Carrier, Coach of the Year
By BILL CRONEY

ACONVERSATION with Jack Carrier, Div IV Boy’s Coach of the Year Bill Croney Williamstown’s Boy’s basketball coach Jack Carrier must like to make a good first impression. More...

Keeping In Touch

Never Underestimate
By CHRISTINE BARNES

“You taught us a lot about your wildlife refuse,” writes Haley, a grade 3 student. One of the most important and rewarding jobs in the volunteer repertoire includes teaching in the environmental education program at the refuge. More...