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As winters get warmer, maple farmers are learning to adapt
VERMONT – Sugar maples are called “Goldilocks” trees for good reason. Preferring temperatures to be just right, the trees produce more sap over freezing nights and on days that are just warm enough. But warmer winters and midseason thaws are disrupting that balance. Producers are being forced to adapt to protect both[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
What’s the solution?
With Vermont’s Town Meeting Day upon us, most questions involve funding, or who will be responsible for making decisions in our towns. At school district meetings we have budgets for education to vote on, most of which have gone up, some astronomically for several years. Our state legislature ponders education[Read More…]
Heller’s World
For the record
Last week’s review by David Rodgers, “Woodard discusses films, farms and more,” should have indicated George Woodard’s father is George. His grandfather was Walt.
Heller’s World
Bread and circuses
EAST MONTPELIER – I had the experience, some thirty years ago, of sharing a canoe in the Canadian Arctic with a delightful child psychiatrist. Naturally, we talked all day long of shoes and ships and sealing wax, I suppose, and I remember a few of the things I learned. One[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
As we become unmoored
GREENSBORO – The United States has had more than its share of moral failure. From the Trail of Tears to the My Lai massacre there is plenty for us to be ashamed of. But with our democratic institutions, our Constitutional rights and the power of dissent, for 250 years, we[Read More…]
Emotional health of seniors is not optional
MONTPELIER – I vividly remember the days, years ago, when I would occasionally deliver meals to homebound neighbors in our communities. Each visit lasted only 30 to 60 seconds, but the impact was profound. An isolated elder’s face would light up when I stepped through the door. I often knew[Read More…]
Sue Slayton remembers Hardwick history: Upstreet, downstreet, overstreet
HARDWICK – Claire “Sue” (Goodrich) Slayton, grew up hearing stories about her grandfather, Samuel Daniels of Sam Daniels Manufacturing Company Inc., a maker of wood and coal furnaces in Hardwick and Montpelier from 1908 through 1969. Graduating from Hardwick Academy in 1966, Slayton has many memories of Hardwick’s unique community[Read More…]
