Letters to the editor – December 3, 2020
Schools shouldn’t ask kids about Thanksgiving dinner and Zoning Board of Adjustment letter to the editor
Just in time for the holidays, it’s Once Upon a Winter Day
Her children’s book just came out to starred reviews, and her clever, sweet characters and pictures appeal just as much to older readers as young ones. Once Upon a Winter Day illustrator and author Liza Woodruff gives us a peek into what it’s like to create a book for kids.
In thanks for and praise of Charlotte
This election season, especially on the national level, has been full of chaos, dysfunction and uncertainty. Not here in Charlotte.
Gratitude for Jeddah
It’s tricky to focus on a big topic like gratitude. There’s the matter of scale. I am grateful for many things, that my loved ones have escaped the coronavirus and that an effective vaccine may be available soon.
Zoning Board of Adjustment letter to the editor
As volunteer members of the Town’s Zoning Board of adjustment (ZBA), we want to thank everyone involved in recent dialogue around challenges with the Town’s zoning process.
Letters to the editor – November 12, 2020
Letters to the Editor from David Adsit, Rep. Mike Yantachka, and Thomas I. Chittenden
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Guns or butter?
Two articles in New York Times issues near the end of last month caught my eye. One happened to be in the sports section; the other was a column by writer Roger Cohen.
Publisher Claudia Marshall speaks with Rotary members
The Charlotte News Publisher, Claudia Marshall, speaks with the Charlotte, Shelburne, Hinseburg Rotary members on October 27.
New memoir by Norm Riggs
In our July 11 and 28, 2018 issues, The Charlotte News experimented with publishing two long-form installments of what eventually became a book-length memoir by Norm Riggs about how, in the summer of 1964, he and a friend, Dave Dyer, two college guys in Des Moines—unable to face another three months of typical, tedious, low-paying summer jobs—decided to take a big chance. They would hop from suburb to suburb across the country, painting house numbers on curbs and asking homeowners to donate for the service.
Pondering reading and three good books on a rainy day
It’s a cold, rainy Monday, and I am thinking about reading. I have always been a reader. I remember so many of the books and authors I read when I was young. Pat the Bunny, Dr. Seuss, Uncle Wiggly, Pippi Longstocking, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Kinman Rawlings, Black Beauty, Black Hearts in Battersea—I could go on. And on. And on.
It’s a robber…it’s a murderer…oh, wait. It’s just ghosting season.
There’s no moon. I sit in my car on the side of a back-country road, lights off, hazards clicking in the blackness, hoping someone doesn’t call the police. I care about the environment, so I don’t leave my car running, but it’s 40 degrees out. The heat slips out the windows and night sounds settle in as I sit there, shivering, waiting for my accomplices to come back.
Thanksgiving was a ritual for “Packer Backers”
I have memories of two types of rituals for this holiday. The first revolves around football; the second revolves around food. In this issue of The News I’ll tell you about how in Green Bay, Wisconsin, football rules the roost on Thanksgiving. I will get into food next time.
Freedom & Unity Walk
It will not be news to you that we’re living through a bellicose period in our nation’s history. In a normal time, this would make for an especially volatile campaign season leading up to the national elections on November 3.
A New York City hero sandwich
There were a couple of obituaries recently that took me back to my days in New York. Writer Pete Hamill and baseball pitcher Tom Seaver both died in August.
On reading, rereading, remembering, misremembering, and recommending “Sula”
Hello, Readers and Others. I hope this finds you well and enjoying these late summer days. I am noticing, here and there, trees tinged with red, and there has definitely been a nip in the air these last few mornings.
Letter to the editor – September 3, 2020
There has been considerable recent discussion about why Vermont’s response rate to the 2020 census form is so low.
Snakes and spiders and little suns
This story begins with my liking a group of musical programs played on Vermont Public Radio every weekend. A couple of weeks ago I had run through Joel Najman’s “My Place” as well as “American Roots” from New Orleans and was tuned to Robert Reznick’s “All the Traditions” when it happened.
Letters to the Editor – August 6, 2020
I am writing to encourage your support of Thomas Chittenden’s run for state senator in this month’s Democratic primary.
COVID and the courts
These are strange times for all of us, and that includes the Vermont courts. Several people have asked me recently whether the courts are open, and how they are functioning, so I thought I’d share the answers with all of you.
Giving up muscles for brains I hope
Well, yes, you do think back over three-quarters of a century lifetime and remember how much of it revolved around a physical presence and how much, now that that physicality has receded, has turned mental—we hope anyway.