Library Lines – Starting and ending with cookbooks

#MIDDLEBURY By DONNA HINE Editor’s Note: We are very grateful for the contributions Donna Hine has made to the newspaper over the years. We hope our readers will let her know ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – July 4, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule Chen Chen But really I would prefer to sit, drink water, reread some Russians a while longer – ... Continue Reading →

Sports Quiz – July 3, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY By Chris Richcreek Questions Who was the first major-league rookie to have 30 or more home runs before the All-Star break? How many times during his 22-year major-league ... Continue Reading →

Breakfast with Muhammad Ali

By RAYMOND PIETRORAZIO I was working for a major mechanical contractor in 1969. When I went to New York City to attend a seminar on mechanical service management, I never expected ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – July 3, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Medusa Louise Bogan I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved, – a bell hung ready to strike, Sun and reflection wheeled by. When ... Continue Reading →

Jose Rodrigues Obituary

Brother of M. Albertina Dos Santos Jose Rodrigues, 86, of Naugatuck, husband of Germana (Alhinho) Rodrigues, passed away peacefully Thursday, June 30, 2016, at St. Mary’s Hospital ... Continue Reading →

LPOS discusses status in unofficial meeting

#MIDDLEBURY By TERRENCE S. MCAULIFFE The Middlebury Land Preservation and Open Space Acquisition Committee (LPOS) on Wednesday, June 1 did not hold an official meeting, but did update ... Continue Reading →

Area students graduate from Chase Collegiate

#MIDDLEBURY #CHASECOLLEGIATE Area residents were among the 42 members of the Chase Collegiate School Class of 2016 who received their diplomas in front of faculty, students, family ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – July 2, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Week-night Service D.H. Lawrence The five old bells Are hurrying and eagerly calling, Imploring, protesting They know, but clamorously falling Into gabbling incoherence, ... Continue Reading →

Middlebury Knights prepare chicken dinners

#MIDDLEBURY The Middlebury Knights of Columbus Council No. 3992 served 300 barbecued chicken takeout dinners at their first chicken dinner takeout event June 25. The event benefited ... Continue Reading →