By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
As spring’s crescendo of birdsong mellows now to a steadier summer trill, I listen for melodies I don’t recognize and try to figure out which birds are singing. I look through binoculars at their feathers, the color variations along head and…
By Marguerite Jill Dye
We’ve been hiking up the left side of Mt. Killington from the last patch of snow just above the K-1 Lodge, up Bittersweet and a series of trails and pebbly service roads. We pass the tops of the Snowshed lift, the…
By Mary Ellen Shaw
Now that summer is here it brings back memories of summer meals and ice cream treats enjoyed outdoors back in the 60s and 70s.
The A&W Restaurant on upper North Main Street was one of the “in places” to go. It…
By Brett Yates
In “Bit Rot,” Douglas Coupland’s recent collection of essays and stories, the author writes, “In the future, every day of the week will be a Thursday. We’re all working toward the grave, and life will be one perpetual fast-food job of the…
This article will be published during my first week of recovery from moderate lumbar surgery. The surgery is called foraminotomy, a procedure designed to widen the passageway for my sciatic nerve.
The thing I want to talk about this week is snowmaking. The reason this…
By Kevin Theissen
“Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while, and look at people’s faces,” said Amy Poehler, a comedian.
Mobile technology: the next generation
Faster and more efficient mobile phones are on the horizon. That’s right, 5G is almost here, according…
By Dom Cioffi
I was driving through town the other day when my son erupted from the backseat, “Dad, look, it’s a Porsche!”
I glanced over to the opposite side of the road just quick enough to catch a bright red sports car rip through…
By Declan McCabe
Scanning a sunlit pond floor for crayfish, I was distracted by seven dark spots gliding in a tight formation. Six crisp oval shadows surrounded a faint, less distinct silhouette. The shapes slid slowly and then, with a rapid motion, accelerated before slowing…
By Marguerite Jill Dye
On the occasion of your 145th day in office, President Trump, and my 45th column in the Mountain Times, I humbly offer Trump and his party leadership this letter which was inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Letter to the Soviet Leaders” nearly…
By Brett Yates
Why do celebrities ever apologize for anything? What does it do, exactly?
Does it ever change anyone’s mind about whatever’s happened? When it comes to people whom we don’t know in real life, explanations are probably more appropriate than apologies. Regret and…
