Monthly Archives: April 2017
When Life Gives you Lymes
Debra Paul’s recounts of Chronic Lyme as transcribed by Melissa Ruiz Part II: Cause and Effect. Hello again, readers! I hope you are all well. Last week I introduced this series to spread awareness about this awful disease, Lyme disease. This week I will go deeper into the cause and symptoms of the illness. To recap, Lyme disease is an illness caus...
Poetry Corner Dud By Wayne F. Burke great wall of China cloud the sun sinks down, bright eye closing; last tee-pe-ed rays spread on a choppy sea of divots: blue-gray air craft carrier on horizon sails away– a dud sunset, except for the aftermath of gray natural bridge and hot orange flame plus purple waves sailing in like a synchronized swim...
Max’s View
Sunset Boulevard (1950) **** In the movie “La La Land,” Los Angeles is a fantasy land for its two lead characters. By the end, they have achieved all of their ambitions, both artistically and financially. “La La Land” is an idiotic movie about Hollywood with an offensively upbeat conclusion. “Sunset Boulevard” is a brilliant movie that offers a bru...
Please Support Community Radio and WGDR’s New Mission
Editor, Community radio became an American institution in the twentieth century for many reasons, but at its core, these reasons tie to one: civic connection, both with one’s civic self on the national scale and with one’s civic self on the local scale. Around the country, the impact of community radio on its listeners and producers is seen best in...
Green Up Barre
Editor, Last year’s Green Up event was a great success, and this year we would like even more participation. Barre City is currently littered with trash and debris from the past fall and winter and is in need of being greened up. Spaulding’s Action For the Environment (S.A.F.E.) is currently organizing this event and gathering Green Up bags and glo...
Nelson-Kezer Wedding
Caleb Nelson, son of Kevin and Deborah Nelson of Duxbury, VT and Alyssa Kezer, daughter of Jennifer Degreenia of Seymour, CT were married on October 1, 2016. The bride’s uncle, Richard Degreenia of Walden, VT gave the bride away. The groom’s grand mother, Patty Nelson officiated the ceremony at the bow of the ship The Spirit of Ethan Allen on Lake...
Guest Opinion: When Life Gives You Lymes
Debra Paul’s recounts of Chronic Lyme as transcribed by Melissa Ruiz Growing up I was always full of vigor. I was a combination of the Energizer Bunny, I just kept going and going and going and going, and Xena, Warrior Princess, my “super-strength” allowing me to accomplish any task ahead of me. With these powers combined, nothing could stop me. No...
Max’s View
The Most Hated Woman in America ***1/2 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof… — The Bill of Rights That phrase. That phrase you keep using. I don’t think that phrase means what you think it means. Somewhere in our history, the meaning of the First Amendment got flipped around. T...
Things That I Would Buy
By G. E. Shuman It has been said, or at least I read somewhere, so someone must have said it, that a man will spend two dollars for a one dollar item that he needs, and a woman will spend one dollar for a two-dollar item that she doesn’t need, but it’s on sale. I’m not sure if that isn’t too much of a generalization concerning the sexes, but in my...
Thanks to All Who Made Empty Bowl Benefit a Success
Editor, The Fourth Annual Empty Bowl Benefit for the Vermont Foodbank was a huge success. Held at The Mud Studio in Middlesex on March 12, the benefit, which raised $9500—our largest total yet—translates into nearly 30,000 meals for our neighbors in need. A true community affair, benefits like ours are crucial in helping the Foodbank ease the food...
