Archive - Jul 2011 - Staff Blog

Each of the four major professional sports in America — basketball, hockey, football and baseball — uses the same basic format to divide up their leagues: two separate conferences, each divided into divisions based primarily on location.

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Few Addison County views are more breathtaking than the golden sun dipping down the backs of the Adirondacks at sunset, veiling the rolling farmland and surface of Lake Champlain in a golden cloak of luminescence.

One of my favorite times to head out on a north-south bike loop is during this period. Not only is the air a bit cooler, but you find yourself in the center of numerous sunset vistas as you breeze on by.

This week’s Weekly Rider features a Middlebury to Vergennes loop called sunset loop.

Length: 25.2 miles

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You know the feeling when you look at something for so long that you almost stop seeing it?

Sometimes that’s how I look at our website. In the two years I’ve been here, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to make the website better and about what services and features to add, but when it comes right down to it, I have no idea how to approach the website as someone who’s not familiar with its every nook and cranny.

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People from across the country consider Addison County a bike Mecca. It’s home to steep climbs, 30-mile rollers and spectacular views. It also presents an extremely varied set of riding options to a wide range of cyclists, from those hammer heads looking to climb multiple mountain gaps to those bikers who haven’t been out in years. One of my favorite shorter rides in the area is what I call the Triangle de Midd, Cornwall, Weybridge.

Length: 10.3 miles

Difficulty: Easy

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Once again, on Saturday afternoon it was time for the popular local trailrunning race, The Goshen Gallop! The good news was that this year’s relatively dry conditions would make for good footing onwhat were more typically muddy trails. The bad news was that Saturday was HOT!

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As my body continues to recover from injury down time in the spring, I thought it was about time to take on a longer run.

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I was eight years old when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa brought Major League Baseball back to life.

Four years after the 1994 baseball season was cut short by a player strike, America was still trying to rebuild its relationship with its national pastime. But baseball had a lot of work to do — it had, after all, walked out on the country, and you don’t just walk back in and expect everything to be fine again — you have to rebuild trust.

You have to make people believe again.

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Reporter John Flowers chatted with VPR's Mitch Wertlieb about the proposed solar array in Middlebury and the wave of solar projects going up across the county. Read the original article, "Middlebury solar array eyed," from our July 4 edition, then check out more of our stories on solar power. Listen in on the interview here, or listen to the clip on VPR's website.

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