Making the most of cat’s 9 lives

Paws Corner by Sam Mazzotta DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I’m extremely curious about the average lifespan of cats. Years ago my husband found a stray kitten about 6 weeks old. Skeezix ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – March 4, 2016

Cut Lilies Noah Warren More than a hundred dollars of them. It was pure folly. I had to find more glass things to stuff them in. Now a white and purple cloud is breathing in each corner of ... Continue Reading →

EIDC approves gas station renovation, receives streetscape bids

By TERRENCE S. MCAULIFFE The Middlebury Economic and Industrial Development Commission (EIDC) at its March 1 special meeting unanimously approved, with conditions, the appearance of ... Continue Reading →

PHS JV boys basketball finish perfect season

Pomperaug High School’s (PHS) junior varsity boy basketball team, front row, left to right, Jake Mendicino, Joshua Miree, Noah Taylor, Jason Hirschauer and Mario Paniccia and ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – March 3, 2016

Proportion Ben Doller Just want things proportional. Just things, not all. Not kings, kings should be below: shoveling, dripping, and most of all – literally speaking – not ... Continue Reading →

Lady Panthers bury Bobcats in Class L opener

By KEN MORSE Special to the Middlebury Bee-Intelligencer The Pomperaug girls came into Monday’s Class L first-round contest as the No. 8 seed with a 17-5 record and took on the No. ... Continue Reading →

Panthers knocked out of SWC semis

Postseason journey continues in Class L By KEN MORSE Special to the Middlebury Bee Intelligencer The Pomperaug boys basketball team went into the South West Conference (SWC) semifinals ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – March 2, 2016

How to Prepare the Mind for Lightning Brynn Saito In the recesses of the woman’s mind there is a warehouse. The warehouse is covered with wisteria. The wisteria wonders what it ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – March 1, 2016

Blood Argument April Bernard You insist that the world belongs to a stony-hearted goat-god – how every time we act, we enact his vileness; how this is no ecstasy, just a bad labored ... Continue Reading →

Botsford requests 2.86-percent budget increase

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM Region 15 Superintendent of Schools Regina Botsford on Monday night presented to the Board of Education (BoE) a proposed 2016-2017 budget of $67.1 million, a 2.86-percent ... Continue Reading →