Around Town – May 30, 2019

Around Town – May 30, 2019

to Courtney McDermott whose poem, “Self-acceptance,” appeared in the Burlington Free Press Young Writers Project on May 17. The author compares a personal existence to the beginning of spring. “It crept up slowly, I could barely hear its hollowed footsteps. It crept up as softly as April creeps up.” The author says about herself and the world, “You are not broken any more than a crocus just beginning to bloom is broken.” And as spring days last longer, so do our pleasures from other human beings.

Water woes — cluster of West Village wells stopped providing water

Water woes — cluster of West Village wells stopped providing water

Imagine one sleepy Saturday morning, you shuffle to the kitchen and turn on the faucet and the familiar sound of tap water is eerily absent. “I turned on the water and nothing. There was just nothing,” said Ronda Moore, one of landowners whose well stopped providing water in early December.