There’s a new feature on Facebook that allows users to broadcast live video. Within the usual Facebook content parameters, the subjects of these videos can be anything, but so far, most of the broadcasters have turned their cameras onto themselves, creating video streams that resemble unedited personal vlogs, achieving a small degree of excitement through…

Getting outside again Before I get started, I just want to invite everyone down to the Earth Day Celebration from 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20, at the Rutland Winter Farmers Market, located at 251 West Street in Rutland. I will be there hanging out, digging the slow living thing, so come on…

By Daris Howard Hailee loved her job working at the nursing home, but there was one challenge she had a hard time with. That challenge went by the name of Bob. Hailee could handle cleanups, spills, and even the sometimes impatient older people, but Bob’s problem was altogether different. He didn’t want to sleep until…

When is the last time you received a letter in the mail? I bet it’s been awhile unless there is someone in your life who actually owns a box of stationery and enjoys taking “pen in hand.” Letter writing is slowly becoming a lost art. It also means a big piece of history will be…

By Cal Garrison a.k.a. The Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Gemini Moon, that will turn Void-Of-Course at approximately 3 p.m. on the east coast and at around noon, out here in the west. There’s a lot going on in the sky. We could talk about…

By Dom Cioffi The sun was shining bright enough that the warmth against my face felt like a space heater. I closed my eyes and tilted my head skyward to soak in the rays. For weeks the weather had been sketchy, but now spring truly felt like it was upon us. I had just walked…

By Dom Cioffi I’ve worked with a lot of different personalities in my life. Some have been positive, some negative. Some have been helpful, some helpless. Some I have really enjoyed, others I have loathed. I realized a long time ago that you’re never going to have the perfect working environment. Jobs are dynamic and…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of an old, Pisces moon, with a mixture of aspects that will be easier to handle if we are clear about the fact that life on this planet is vibrating at a completely new and different frequency. In…

By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul During my walks through the woods these days, I am often accompanied by curious children. These children, who are my own, notice many things that I often do not, and they are filled with questions. Who made that track? Why does this grow here? What kind of mushroom is that? With…

Courtesy of Dave Hoffenberg There’s a new band in the area that you all need to check out—the Super Stash Bros. Catch them this Friday at Center Street Alley; every Saturday night at Moguls Sports Pub; as well as the Moguls Pig Roast on Sunday, April 17. They also play at various places in the…

By Brady Crain Pico Mountain, as seen with slim to no coverage, is grounds for a good hike I had a pet subject all picked out for this week, and then I completely forgot it. Gone. Poof. And now I wonder about a possible latent TBI from smacking my face on the ice a couple…

Have you ever watched that Bravo show “Inside the Actors Studio,” where, during every episode, the host James Lipton ritualistically asks his interviewee the same series of artfully banal personal questions—clearly idiotic but boosted into respectability by their French provenance (their origin being the journalist Bernard Pivot, not, as is sometimes claimed, the novelist Marcel…

By Tony Crespi The run was steep. The snow, as it has been often this season, firm. In the distance the sky was mostly blue with patches of cloud. As I cruised into the liftline, the lift attendant (a.k.a. the “lifty”) was grinning. After a moment of friendly chatter, I asked about his seeming boundless…

Following last week’s terrorist attack in Brussels, Hillary Clinton tweeted sentiments of solidarity, resolve, and anti-Islamophobia, as well as an info-graphic displaying her three-point “plan to defeat ISIS” in Syria and Iraq. Bernie Sanders expressed his condolences to the people of Brussels, stating that this “attack is a brutal reminder that the international community must…

My knee is healing beautifully. This is by far the least catastrophic MCL injury I have ever had (my fourth on the left), and it is the first one where the morning after the incident, I started riding a stationary bike. I think this has something to do with it. I don’t ride as hard…