From my youngest childhood days, I remember foraging for fiddlehead ferns with my Uncle Leonard,
To prepare the fiddleheads: First, soak your fiddleheads in cold water for 10 minutes and...
Daffodils can break your heart in so many lovely ways. "I wandered lonely as a...
I smell maple syrup in the air and travel back to the kitchen of Grandma...
It was a nice way to say goodbye. Amid a scene of bustling construction activity Dec. 4, Windham & Windsor Housing Trust Executive Director Connie Snow accepted a $125,000 affordable housing grant from TD Charitable Foundation, which will be used toward the completion of the Great River Terrace project on Putney Road. Snow, who is retiring from the Housing Trust at the end of this month, also got a chance to preside over an open house to show off the...
The proposed merger of Bellows Falls and the town of Rockingham soon comes to a vote. At Bellows Falls' first merger hearing, a lone booster for the proposal suggested that the town of Rockingham could be likened to God. I was relieved to learn Scripture doesn't support that notion. We don't need a merger. The local government isn't broken. The town and the village are not adversaries. The current governing boards do a good job overseeing the community's interests from...
Jon Katz, best-selling author of 26 books, will headline the Dover Free Library's annual Dessert Social to benefit the library on Thursday, Aug. 6. In a telephone conversation with The Commons, Katz said he doesn't like to do readings, but he “loves conversations.” A longtime journalist and contributor to a variety of publications, including The Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, and Wired, Katz has mostly shifted his focus from technology and society to “writing about animals in a thoughtful way,” he...
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