CVU graduates encouraged to try everything
Although smiles and laughter were in abundance at Champlain Valley High School’s graduation on Friday, June 13, there was also a heaping helping of solemnity on this occasion. Besides the obvious gravity…
Around Town
Congratulations: to the CVU Brain Bee Team, which was one of nine high school teams competing in the Vermont Brain…
Taking Care – Grandmother Hiles, Part 2
My Grandmother Hiles and Auntie Pasco, her companion of 50 years, were inveterate travelers in the early 1900s. A worn…
The Case for Electric Cars
Electric cars—not only are they coming, but they were here first. Very early automobiles were, in fact, electric. We got…
A Return to the Familiar
It was in the spirit of Olympic fever with which I watched the video of my son, Sam, launching himself…
Parenting Teenagers Panel Discussion
Are you raising a teenager? Do you have the skills and tools that you need to stay on course, especially…
Yellow iris control in Thorp Brook and Lower Lewis Creek
Yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus), with its striking yellow flowers, provides a colorful addition to the Vermont landscape—and a threat to…
February 15 is Vermont Writes Day
YWP’s Annual Day of Writing for just seven minutes is now in its ninth year. Vermont Writes Day is an…
A whale of a tale and other Baja discoveries
Women groan at the thought of giving birth to an 11- or 12-pound baby. Imagine a gray whale calf, weighing…
