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 →
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