Doug Wilhelm


  • Letter to the editor: ‘Best of Jessie’ would be great

    She gave us hilariously relatable, deftly written takes on her daily life. Hers was the feature so many of us turned to in this paper first, and it…

  • New book: CCV instills hope in higher ed

    New book: CCV instills hope in higher ed

    Many young people today are deterred from higher education by the rising cost of college, and they choose to stay out or drop out, observed an article published…

  • Taking the stage for Chuck’s Last Jam

    Taking the stage for Chuck’s Last Jam

    Pianist and music educator Chuck Miller has been bringing good music to life in this area for more than a quarter century. Next month, Miller and his wife…

  • Somewhere in Afghanistan, my friend is hiding

    Somewhere in Afghanistan, my friend is hiding

    I’ve been emailing with a friend I once worked with, a musician who’s in hiding in Afghanistan. He helped me a lot, years ago when we worked together…

  • Weybridge author wins four national book awards

    Weybridge author wins four national book awards

    WEYBRIDGE — Honors for published books are hard-won — and it’s rarer still to win three national awards in a single day, then a fourth a few weeks…

  • Weybridge man recovers from COVID-19

    Weybridge man recovers from COVID-19

    WEYBRIDGE — Doug Wilhelm, 67, has often had to deal with the frustration and discomfort that comes with respiratory ailments. So when the Vermont Department of Health began…

  • Weybridge author wins two awards for his books

    WEYBRIDGE — Weybridge author Doug Wilhelm’s 17th book for young readers, “Street of Storytellers,” has won the 2019 Young Adult Fiction Book Award from IPNE, Independent Publishers of…

  • Book review: Street of Storytellers — by Doug Wilhelm

    Book review: Street of Storytellers — by Doug Wilhelm

    (Rootstock Publishing) Luke isn’t interested in learning anything about Peshawar or Pakistan, because even though his dad “had him over Christmas vacation. It said so in the divorce,”…

  • Doug Wilhelm’s book is 38 years in the making

    Doug Wilhelm’s book is 38 years in the making

    WEYBRIDGE — As a young adult novelist, Doug Wilhelm knows that if you don’t pull the reader in right away, “you’re done.” Nothing is different about the way…