By Mary Ellen Shaw It won’t be long before fall is in the air! It’s been a very hot summer compared to the weather we used to have many years ago. I don’t remember one house on our street having […]
Category: Column
Column, The Outside Story
Purple finches provide year-round color
By Lee Emmons In September, as summer yields to fall, most of the colorful birds that breed in our region during spring and summer head south for warmer locales. The departure of ruby-throated hummingbirds, Baltimore orioles, migratory woodpeckers, and numerous […]
Column, Pets
RCHS 2022 membership drive
The Rutland County Humane Society 2022 membership drive is now underway! The generosity of our members allows us to care for the homeless animals who come to us throughout the year. Through August, we have had 548 cats and kittens […]
Column, Living the Dream
Grateful for these stolen moments
By Merisa Sherman I turned around and looked back behind me. The Green Mountains lay sprawled below, the once-green now beginning to turn myriad colors. Yes, the thin reds are beginning to pop and are doing so in a wide […]
Column, Money Matters
Teenage “wage-land”
By Kevin Theissen Summer jobs are a perennial aspect of the American workforce. It’s a time when teenagers are filling out applications and, in many cases, earning wages of their own for the first time. But some of what we’ve […]
Cosmic catalogue, Horoscope Archives, Horoscopes, Lifestyle
Weekly Horoscopes for Sept. 22-28, 2021
Aries March 21 - April 20 We are told so many varying ideas about how to get ahead in life, especially when it comes to money. We are trained to think, if I buy this, then I can’t buy that. […]
Column, Cosmic catalogue, Horoscope Archives, Horoscopes, Lifestyle
To subdue without fighting
By Cassandra Tyndall “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” This quote from “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu is something to keep in mind this week. It may be harder than usual to […]
Column, Movie Diary
Reading between the lines
By Dom Cioffi A friend who knew I had reached a major milestone in my cancer battle showed up at my door recently with a present. It came wrapped in one of those tall, thin wine bottle gift bags with […]
Cosmic catalogue, Horoscope Archives, Horoscopes
Weekly Horoscopes for Sept. 15-21, 2021
Aries March 21 - April 20 You already know that if you want to go faster, you’ll go alone. The Cosmos wants to remind you, though, that if you go together, you’ll go so much farther than you could by […]
Column, Cosmic catalogue, Horoscope Archives, Horoscopes, Lifestyle
Listening to the verse-chorus-verse
By Cassandra Tyndall This morning as I sipped my coffee, enjoying the late winter air, the warming nearly-spring Sun and the song of rainbow lorikeets here in Australia, I got thinking about 2021 so far. Like a song, this year […]