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 […]
Category: Column
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 […]
Column, Pets
The Rutland County Humane Society ‘Duck Derby’ is almost here
There is still time to adopt your little plastic ducks for the Rutland County Humane Society (RCHS) Duck Derby! The Duck Derby will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 23 at Pittsford Recreational Area. Adopted ducks will enter […]
Column, Living the Dream
The leaves fall, the air thins creating crispness
By Merisa Sherman It’s been bugging me for almost a week, maybe even two. The plant border that I built during Covid has been slowly changing during that time, my beloved black mulch becoming almost buried. I had, of course, […]
Column, The Outside Story
As summer wanes, fawns lose their spots
By Laurie D. Morrissey I have often been stopped in my tracks by the sight of a white-tailed doe standing in the lush summer grass. Depending on the sun’s slant, the animal’s coat is a rich shade of rusty brown […]