Nonalcoholic fatty liver is increasingly common

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH By Keith Roach, M.D. DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 59 years old and am having problems with my lower abdomen. After colonoscopy and ultrasound, my doctor called to say I ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 12, 2016

The Cry Paisley Rekdal A man can cry, all night, your back shaking against me as your mother sleeps, hooked to the drip to clear her kidneys from their muck of sleeping pills. Each ... Continue Reading →

Statewide energy contest for students K to college

  NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (Jan. 11, 2016) – Eversource and The United Illuminating Company, as partners of the Energize Connecticut initiative, are accepting entries for the 12th ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 11, 2016

Thin Ice Ellen Dore Watson Reedy striations don’t occlude the beneath- earthy mash of leaves, flat pepper flakes, layered, tips protruding, tender-desolate above a mirror surface, ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 10, 2016

Moth Moon Florence Ripley Mastin Moth Moon, a-flutter in the lilac tree, With pollen of the white stars on thy wings, Oh! would I shared thy flight, thy fantasy, The aimless beauty ... Continue Reading →

Singing, music help with dementia

SENIOR NEWS LINE by Matilda Charles Researchers revealed a year ago that singing could greatly help Parkinson’s disease patients with breathing, speaking and memory. Now researchers ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 9, 2016

Limitations Henrietta Cordelia Ray The subtlest strain a great musician weaves, Cannot attain in rhythmic harmony To music in his soul. May it not be Celestial lyres send hints to him? ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 8, 2016

Fog Vi Khi Nao the sun drops his knee on fog a diurnal genuflection that explains the lack of clarity in the prayer’s thought when god prays to himself using the fog’s opaque ... Continue Reading →

Firefighter reports deer may have survived ice ordeal

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM We left the scene of the doe stranded on the ice at Long Meadow Pond in Middlebury Jan. 7 because it was our understanding she had a broken leg and would be put ... Continue Reading →

MVFD responds to animal rescue call

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM The Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department (MVFD) responded to an animal rescue call on Lake Shore Drive Thursday, Jan. 7, around 10:30 a.m. When they arrived, they ... Continue Reading →