Dole salad recall may affect you

BY MARJORIE NEEDHAM Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc. on Jan. 22 issued a voluntary recall of its bagged salads due to the possibility of listeria contamination. The recall includes Connecticut, ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 26, 2016

Brewerytown Iain Haley Pollock This morning, the lovers – who last night were slurring and stumbling and when I looked out, each gripping the other’s taut throat in a clench ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 25, 2016

Mud Season Tess Taylor We unstave the winter’s tangle. Sad tomatoes, sullen sky. We unplay the summer’s blight. Rotted on the vine, black fruit swings free of strings that ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 24, 2016

Aware D. H. Lawrence Slowly the moon is rising out of the ruddy haze, Divesting herself of her golden shift, and so Emerging white and exquisite; and I in amaze See in the sky before ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 23, 2016

Love James Russell Lowell True Love is but a humble, low-born thing, And hath its food served up in earthen ware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness ... Continue Reading →

Westover cancels Jan. 23 SAT exam

Westover School announced the Jan. 23 SAT exam at the Middlebury school has been canceled due to inclement weather. Please visit https://sat.collegeboard.org for more information. The ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 22, 2016

First Snow Arthur Sze A rabbit has stopped on the gravel driveway: imbibing the silence, you stare at spruce needles: there’s no sound of a leaf blower, no sign of a black bear; a ... Continue Reading →

LaBelle wins first-place trophy

      USA Martial Arts member Sarah LaBelle won a first-place trophy in girls’ sparring at a Cheezic tang Soo Do karate tournament. The event was held Jan. 17 ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 21, 2016

Palo Borracho Chip Livingston The jacaranda blooms beside the drunk stick tree. Come. I see you swelling with nectar. Hear you, Venteveos, shriek till night. Come. See me. The jacaranda ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 20, 2016

Vapor Sara Eliza Johnson When it happens the rain is not black but powder. A noise bleeds from your ears and everything quakes alive inside you: the circuits of the flowers lighting ... Continue Reading →