By Dave Mance III If you’re a hunter who’s ever ordered something from a sporting goods company, it’s probably safe to assume that you’ve been inundated with catalogues over the past four months. God help you if you save your seed catalogues, too. If you take a moment to flip through your now complete seasonal…

By Bryan Golden The New Year is a time of resolutions. It’s a time when people commit to making a change in their life. Losing weight, changing jobs, saving money, making money, a new relationship, getting in shape, going back to school, or giving up smoking are just some of the goals people set for…

To follow up on the post-injury introspective I wrote about in my past column, here is a comparative study with a different injury, more comprehensive but slightly less acutely catastrophic. On Thursday March 22, 2012, I finished a contracting job at 3 a.m., got about four hours of sleep, and saddled up to catch a…

I don’t know if you’ve ever eaten at Chipotle: the company operates a single restaurant in Vermont (in Burlington), but with roughly 2,000 locations worldwide and billions in yearly revenue, the fast-casual Mexican chain has reigned for the past decade as the trendiest large-scale dining enterprise in the United States. Chipotle Mexican Grill is Taco…

My wife and I have an annual tradition of heading to the largest mall we can find on the final weekend before Christmas. We don’t do this because we need last-minute gifts. We do it because we like to find the calm within the chaos. That may sound strange, so I’ll explain. For as many…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week's Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Scorpio Moon, with enough planetary movement to give us something to talk about. For starters, Mercury and Mars have just changed signs and they just so happen to be squaring each other. Mercury, in Aquarius, rules…

Submitted The Lynch Bros: Duane Carleton and Tim Lynch make up a dynamic duo with their musical infuences and styles. The Lynch Bros are the new act at Moguls Sports Pub every Thursday night at 9 p.m. One of the Bros you all may know, Mr. Duane Carleton a.k.a. The Human Jukebox. The other bro…

By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul For several days last winter, a barred owl perched atop a dead white birch tree in our field. As winters go, last year’s was very cold, and the owl puffed up against the stubbornly below-freezing temperatures, its streaky brown and white feathers fluffed and fluttering in the icy breeze. Occasionally the…

Sorry, readers, for my lapse in writing. Time gets the best of us. Resolved: I will taste and write about more beers in 2016. I’ve tasted a few really good beers since our last visit, but the challenge has been to meet up with a local brewer while doing so. I’m bending my own rules…

As a young child in the 50s I remember sitting at a pullout-top desk in our living room, writing my letter to Santa. If selected, it would be read at 4 p.m. on a local radio station. Santa would be sure to say that he had received all our letters even if he didn’t have…

Editor’s note: The following is the third in a series of reviews of randomly selected, low-quality, made-for-TV Christmas movies. Why do adults watch Christmas movies? I think we do it in large part to convince ourselves that Christmas exists. The made-for-TV Christmas movie, in particular, transports us to an alternate reality in which Christmas occupies…

Submitted Acoustic Ruckus If you want to ring in the new year with some good original music, then there are two new bands I suggest you go see. The Clear River Tavern’s New Year’s Eve party will be rocking with Acoustic Ruckus at 9:30 p.m. and the Wobbly Barn might need a new roof after…

This week's Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Leo Moon, with aspects that could actually give us a reason to show up for work this morning. In the wake of whatever our holiday madness consisted of, a Grand Fire Trine between Saturn, Uranus, and the Moon, should make it easier to get…

By Dom Cioffi I haven’t wanted to physically assault anyone in a long time, but over the past week I came close on several occasions. I’m not sure if it was the stress of the holiday season or the fact that some people just decided to abandon social graces, but I genuinely got pushed to…

Courtesy of Dave Hoffenberg HAMJOB Alex Abraham said this weekend is “fixing to be one of the better weekends” of his life and it could be yours too if you head to the Wobbly Barn on Friday night, Dec. 18, to see his band, “Hamjob.” It’s a free show if you’re 21 and over and…