Death Race a unique test

PITTSFIELD — At 6 p.m. on Friday evenings, many of us are just leaving work and starting to look forward to a relaxing weekend. At that time last Friday, Middlebury resident Don Devaney was just beginning the Spartan Death Race, a one-of-a-kind ultra endurance race...

A fine and twisting thread

I took my son Mark to play in a baseball game in Burlington last week. Turns out the game was canceled because of rain, but we never got word until we were already at the Burlington High School field. So I found myself with a little extra time to spend in the big...

Editorial: Gaz-Metro’s play for CVPS

Vermont ratepayers are sitting in the bleachers in terms of the pending negotiations that will determine who will own Central Vermont Public Service, even though they have the most to win or lose in the transaction. But even fans in the bleachers have a voice that can...

Clippings: Online communities are still reality

On Friday evening, I sat glued to the action in the Senate chambers a hundred miles away in Albany, N.Y. No, wait. I was actually in my living room at home, with “Arrested Development” playing on the TV, the shouts of kids running up and down the street wafting in the...

Around the bend: Haste can lay waste to risk-takers

“Why, instead of doing things the right way, do we do them in a way we know will end badly?” When my friend Jenn called me the other day with this question, it wasn’t merely academic. Jenn recently became a beekeeper. Over the course of just a few weeks she already...