Word spreads quickly in small towns, so here’s a brief note to report that our beloved sports columnist and retired Middlebury College professor Karl Lindholm had a health scare here at the office Tuesday morning. After exchanging his typical jokes and friendly banter with colleagues, he sat down at his computer to put the finishing touches on this week’s column. Then reporter John Flowers noticed Karl had slumped in his chair. What followed was emergency application of CPR, a call to 911, a quick response by Middlebury’s excellent first responder team and ambulance care to the medical center. By later that Tuesday, Karl was stabilized and doing much better. With much good fortune, a good outcome is promising. More later, but for now we wanted the community to know this update.

Angelo Lynn