By Gary Salmon This has been a cold spring without many consecutive days of similar weather so the first half of March was spent looking at the world around us from the windows surrounding us. The invitation to actually get outside and away from the looking glass would come, I thought, when consistent warm weather…

By Dom Cioffi Many, many years ago, I was ushered into the Christian faith as an altar boy at my local church. It was a rite of passage along with catechism classes and Sunday services. I started out carrying ritualistic items like candles and chalices and eventually graduated to performing more important tasks for the…

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Mercury is the most active planet this week, highlighting what may be a flurry of ideas or information, and in some cases, too many options to make a hard decision about. In just over a week, Mercury will hit the brakes and embark upon another retrograde phase. The upside to this is that you’ll get…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="194740" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1582852508329{margin-top: 40px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][vc_raw_html]JTNDc3BhbiUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIyaWNvbmlmeSUyMiUyMGRhdGEtaWNvbiUzRCUyMm1kaS16b2RpYWMtYXJpZXMlMjIlMjBkYXRhLWlubGluZSUzRCUyMmZhbHNlJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGc3BhbiUzRQ==[/vc_raw_html][vc_custom_heading text="Aries" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1568082984251{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] March 21 - April 20 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]You’re not one to shy away from change or a challenge, but when it comes to your finances, you’re surprisingly conservative. That said, there has been change on the scene for quite a few years now.…

By Dom Cioffi Marilu Henner is an American actress with a career spanning over 45 years in motion pictures and television. Her most notable role was that of Elaine Nardo on the hit television series “Taxi,” where she starred alongside Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conway, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, and Andy Kaufman. While her acting work…

By Kevin Theissen What are you going to do with your tax refund this year? Through the end of March, the IRS received over 81 million returns and processed just under 79 million returns. To that point, the IRS has sent out just under 60 million refunds checks totaling $188 billion. The average tax refund…

The Rutland County Humane Society (RCHS) is looking for volunteers to help with the cleaning of our community cat rooms! Our community cat rooms are a great way for adoptable cats to socialize, and visit with potential adopters, and with the warmer weather comes more occupants! Volunteers need to be 16 years old or older,…

By Cassandra Tyndall A new week arrives fresh from the Libra Full Moon that clashed with powerful Pluto. You might be reeling after the realization that not all was as fair as you thought in a particular relationship. This week, Mercury is active, which offers the chance to think about recent events as well as…

By Merisa Sherman I cannot pull away. I want to ride Cascade over and over and over again. Ok, alternating with Downdraft. They have been so playful. I could actually feel my heart smiling. So smooth and buttery and beautiful, with a touch of graininess to it. But not that chunky graininess that trips you…

By Rachel Sargent Mirus Birds use a wonderful variety of materials and techniques to create their nests. Some nests are small and tidy, like grass baskets lined with cozy feathers. Others are large and messily blobbed with mud. Some species build their nests in trees, some on the ground, and others woven into wetland plants…

By Mary Ellen Shaw I recently came across an online article in which various people wrote about the way they remembered life from the 1930s into the '50s. The general consensus is that everything was a lot more work back then. Today’s conveniences make many of the routine things in our lives easier but I…

By Dan Lambert  Each year, soon after ice-out, torpedo-shaped fish slip into the lake’s weedy shallows from that offshore zone where the bottom falls away. First comes the female, her flanks green and gold, and her ovaries swollen with eggs. The male swims alongside, alert for an opportunity to mate. Over the course of a…

By Kevin Theissen Wealth disparity in the United States is a widely discussed topic but what is actually true? The gap between rich and poor is somewhat different than most Americans perceive it to be.  According to Statista: “Despite wealth disparity in the United States being a much-discussed topic over the past decades, the true size…

By Dom Cioffi My wife, son, and I boarded a plane and flew to a Caribbean Island several days ago. We didn’t know what to expect since it was a spring break week, but given that the airport was a zoo, we assumed it was going to be a hectic trip. Thankfully, most of the…