By Kevin Theissen It has been estimated that fewer than 50% of adults have a will or other estate documents in place, which may not be entirely surprising. No one wants to be reminded of their own mortality or spend […]
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Column, The Outside Story
Life within the brush pile
By Lee Emmon For nearly a decade, I’ve been adding to a brush pile in the woods behind my home. A depository of pruned branches, dead flowers, discarded logs, old leaves, and an occasional Christmas tree, the pile is a […]
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Sharpen your axe
By Cassandra Tyndall 2020 has been one of the most dramatic years I’m sure many of us can remember. Amongst dramatic years, there are dramatic months and dramatic weeks. When I studied the astrology of this year, I highlighted this […]
Column, Tree Talk
Our towns are now high risk areas for EAB
By Gary Salmon Maps are windows to our world. The more colorful the more interesting. They tell us where we have been and can even direct us to future actions. Two come to mind that have been useful this year. […]
Column, Living the Dream
It will snow again!
By Merisa Sherman It has snowed before and it will snow again. As the world swirls around us like snowflakes in a mid-winter storm, I find comfort in these words. I find that I repeat them to myself, like a […]
Column, Movie Diary
Batten down the hatches
By Dom Cioffi It’s Monday night as I’m writing this – the eve before one of the most contentious presidential elections in recent history. I voted two weeks ago by mail-in ballot and have spent most of the past 14 […]
Column, Looking Back
With age comes wisdom
By Mary Ellen Shaw They say that with age comes wisdom. While talking with a friend recently we discussed how a lot of things we thought were “cool” back in the day were actually bad ideas! Many of us baby […]
Column, Funologist
The wall
By Sandra Dee Owens For years I told myself (and anyone listening), that I was going to begin a personal challenge of skiing the length of Vermont on the Catamount Trail—but I never did. Years before, while backcountry skiing with […]
Column, The Outside Story
Nothing barren about pine barrens
By Laurie D Morrisey Pine barrens are certainly piney – but they’re not the least bit barren. They were so named not because they lack life, but because colonists found them unsuitable for raising cattle or growing vegetable and grain […]
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Rewriting the rules
By Cassandra Tyndall A new month brings a new batch of astrological possibilities. That being said, it doesn’t mean things will magically progress immediately. When it comes to topics involving communication, logistics, paperwork and money, the devil will be in […]