April 8, 2010 RSS feed / Features

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Thoughts of an Average Joe

The Great Brandon Fire of 1999
By JOE WRIGHT
FOR NEARLY 20 years, I’ve played bluegrass music with friends from southern Maine. In the early 1990s, we formed a band, Basic Bluegrass, which has toured internationally (we played in Canada once). More...

Representative View

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

A few minor bills came up this week: – Mandatory consolidation of all school districts in Vermont into 50 (or fewer) districts with an average of 1,800 students per district. 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 HYSTERECTOMA GUTTHWACKER,

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR REGARDING MISS LOBOTOMY’S REPLACEMENT – Here she is. More...

Common Talk

The First Week of April
By JANE E. BRYANT

FOR THE EASTER celebration, village resident Helene O’Dell and her husband will attend a service at the Resurrection Baptist Church in Montpelier. He is the treasurer and she is the hospitality person. More...

The Wire

Changing Seasons & Familiar Faces - Blue Devil Baseball & Softball
By BILL CRONEY

AS ANYONE who has followed the fortunes of Blue Devil sports for the past few months knows, we started covering Williamstown sports last fall and then continued throughout the basketball season. More...

Crumb’s Corner

Barrel Bikes, Basketball, Golf and Walleyes
By DICK WOBBY

AS I START this writing, I realize that I’ve been talking of Walleyes for some time; people have actually approached me to find out where this elusive specimen could possibly be caught. More...