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Poem: Town plow
Town Plow
He cares so much for us he doesn’t
plow the middle of the road.
He knows the cold can make
a rink of where we’ll have to walk
in the middle of the night
...
Gatorade picks Robinson
CHICAGO — In its 30th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, the Gatorade Co. on Thursday announced Austin Robinson of Middlebury Union High School as its 2014-15 Gatorade Vermont Football Player of the Year. Robinson...
Faith in Vermont: The Slumber Party
When my oldest daughter turned seven last month, she requested a slumber party.
I’m not sure where the idea originated; she’d never attended a slumber party before. Sure, she’d spent nights at her grandparents’ houses...
Faith in Vermont: Timber!
Since we bought our house in Vermont, a lovely Cape in the woods, our homeownership approach has been: Act first, think later.
This was certainly true when it came to the trees. "Oh look," I exclaimed the first time we saw...
Poem: Two weeks in November
Two Weeks in November
I need to teach the deer to read.
To stand behind a row of posted
orange signs. Not that I don’t eat
what’s been penned and killed.
Not that I haven’t learned to shoot
a gun. Or read a...
Election Night 2014 - LIVE
Live Blog Election Night 2014
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Faith in Vermont: Riding for Home: Thoughts on Election Day
Because this column will run on Election Day, I feel compelled to write about local politics.
I typed that sentence, and then spent five minutes staring at my computer screen. The truth is, I'm terrified to write about...
On the Ball: Wednesday playoff soccer
Chalk prevailed for the four local high school soccer teams that saw first-round action on Wednesday, as the No 2 Middlebury and No. 3 Mount Abraham girls advanced in Division II, while the No. 14 Vergennes girls lost to the Eagles, and...
Faith in Vermont: The Disappeared
This is a ghost story, except that the ghosts were never living; they were things that humans built assuming they'd endure: roads, houses, towns.
I used to read with fascination about the disappearance of ancient civilizations. In a world...
On the ball: Teams host playoff games
As expected, the Vermont Principals’ Association awarded top-four seeds this morning to the Middlebury Union High School girls’ soccer and field hockey teams, the Mount Abraham girls’ soccer squad, and the Otter Valley field...