Letter to the editor: Ilsley getting ready for next wave of readers

Sixteen years ago, when our family was looking for a permanent home, I brought my then-two-year-old to the Ilsley Public Library. It was summertime, and the children’s room was cool and busy with families checking out books.

In the recent past, there has been a noticeable increase in animal bites. These have included dogs, cats, ferrets, bats, and chipmunks, with the majority being dogs and then cats.

In his letter to the editor in the September 5 Addison Independent, Hal Cohen asserts that those who support the Palestinians’ right to exist are actually Hamas supporters and are therefore traitors.

We share Hal Cohen’s outrage at Hamas’s unspeakable recent murder of six Israeli hostages. No decent person could defend Hamas, which is, indeed, evil personified; but it is absolutely wrong to equate Hamas with all Palestinians or Gazans.

Mr. Mayer’s physicist’s curiosity and wonder reminded me of the great world-known scientist, Albert Einstein’s basis for his many mental accomplishments and I quote, “I have no talents, I am only passionately curious.”

I recall my family’s struggle with childcare years ago. Paying to be on wait lists, commuting in separate directions each morning, short notice sick days — not to mention cost. Childcare is certainly another Vermont challenge exacerbated by a small and ag … (read more)

The Middlebury Skatepark Project, a grassroots community group of parents, students, teachers, skateboarders, roller skaters, and rollerbladers, is working to bring a much-needed recreation space to town.

In Vermont, the political landscape reflects a clear divide in priorities between Republicans and Democrats.

With the murder of American hostages by Palestinian Hamas those pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas protesters have become traitors.

I enjoyed the essay by John Mayer titled “Quantum Engines” in the Aug. 22 Addison Independent. Like him I am not a physicist, and like him I have followed the developments and ideas of physics as closely as a nontechnical reader may.

At Porter Medical Center and Helen Porter Center, there is a significant event taking place, and not many of us are aware of this situation.

While shredding branches left in the wake of the last storm, I was approached by one of my neighbors stating that he was getting noise complaints from some of the neighbors.

ACSD schools started on Monday. Please slow down for walkers, riders, and rollers during school drop-off and pick-up times.

Scott Bourne and his team at the Middlebury Recreation Department just completed an amazing refurbishing of the outdoor tennis – pickleball – basketball court complex at the Middlebury Recreation Park.

About the Supreme Court — In 1787 the U.S. Constitution came to life. The authors chose the word “Supreme” to describe the third branch.