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Matt Dickerson: Eagles, elk and an empty nest

Posted on April 4, 2019 |
By Matt Dickerson



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Last week began with the end of my cross-country ski season. It ended with the beginning of my fishing season.

It wasn’t the opening of Vermont’s general trout season. That doesn’t come for another week. And it wasn’t my first fishing of 2019. I’d headed across the bridge to New York a few weeks earlier to chase some steelhead in a Lake Champlain tributary. But it was spring break, and that led to my first real fishing trip of 2019.

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Andy Kirkaldy: Gronk leaves on his own terms, as he should

Posted on March 28, 2019 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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Ah, Gronk, we’ll miss you.

It wasn’t a surprise New England Patriots sure-fire Hall of Fame tight end Rob Gronkowski hung it up.

After all, he’s had four arm surgeries, three back surgeries, and one procedure each on a knee and an ankle.

Enough is enough. Anyone who has followed Gronk knows Gronk wants to have fun.

Gronk loves to play football. But also to dance. And go on party cruises. And forget to wear shirts.

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Matt Dickerson: When spring starts

Posted on March 21, 2019 |
By Matt Dickerson



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Karl Lindholm: To go — or not to go?

Posted on March 14, 2019 |
By Karl Lindholm



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What do you think Alex Cora should do? What would you do in his position?

Cora is the manager of the Red Sox, the World Champion Red Sox, the on-the-field leader of the team. His performance in this role last year was impeccable, perfect, as the Red Sox won 119 games, the most ever in their long history.

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Matt Dickerson: No comfort in the North

Posted on March 7, 2019 |
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When my nephew Brad rumbled into Middlebury in his Chevy Blazer for his first year of college, my wife and I knew we were in for a four-year ride. It wasn’t that his Blazer was painted in camo colors or that he’d named it “Southern Comfort.” The real clue was that the vehicle was loaded with toys from floor to roof — plus another three feet above the roof. Mostly they were outdoor toys: snowboard; kayak; mountain bike; climbing, camping, fishing and hunting gear. The boy loved the outdoors. He also loved to play.

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Andy Kirkaldy: Women's hockey miracle was just one of sport's joys

Posted on February 28, 2019 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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When the clock stopped with 16 seconds left in the third period of Saturday’s NESCAC women’s hockey quarterfinal, a beefy student in the front row wearing a Middlebury College sweatshirt, maybe 15 feet away from us, turned to the crowd and expressed perfectly what we all felt:

“Holy bleep.”

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Matt Dickerson: One week, two days, two Nordic centers, two conditions

Posted on February 21, 2019 |
By Matt Dickerson



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Karl Lindholm: Safe at home

Posted on February 14, 2019 |
By Karl Lindholm



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“Like to talk a little bit about baseball ... and football,” George Carlin informs us at the beginning of his famous routine comparing the two sports.

It’s quite brilliant (and not a single cuss word, rare for him). You can find it easily on YouTube.

Carlin’s descriptions of baseball are rendered with a light falsetto; football on the other hand requires a somber and ominous tone.

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Matt Dickerson: Melting down, still thankful

Posted on February 7, 2019 |
By Matt Dickerson



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In the midst of our ongoing yo-yo winter of melt-downs alternating with arctic blasts — the latter of which admittedly haven’t been nearly as intense in Vermont as in the Midwest — my wife and I managed to get out into the woods on our cross-country skis a couple times. And despite the many days when conditions simply didn’t encourage or even allow an outing, I’ve found myself appreciative of just how good we have it in Addison County.

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Matt Dickerson: A seaweed classroom

Posted on January 31, 2019 |
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It’s Tuesday morning. I’m standing with a dozen Middlebury College students listening to a biologist teach us about [dramatic pause] seaweed.

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