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Cheap and Easy Closet Organizing
There's only one thing more satisfying than organizing your closet: Doing it on the cheap. Sure, I love those closet glamour shots as much as anyone. I'm a sucker for solid cherry shoe shelves and rows…
Surgeons Take Critical Look at Their Process
Lebanon -- Anyone who has done a bit of hiking understands the importance of packing light. Take only what you need. If you add a new piece of equipment to your pack, take out whatever it is meant to…
Making Quality Time
Bethel -- Jon Gover spots his mentor, Danny Dover, and breaks into a run. "Danny!" he shouts, running across his backyard. "My dog had puppies!" Jon, 11, is wearing jeans, a black T-shirt, and a pair…
Ant Farms Help Nurture Curiosity in Children
Los Angeles -- What does it take to elevate the common ant from picnic pest to household pet? To thousands of children and many adults, the answer is a bit of soil and a see-through enclosure that, in…
It's Happening At Mount Hayes
By Marty Basch Special to the Valley News We returned to the woods with pep in our steps and were rewarded with the rush of chilled spring run-off cascading down the mountain, the distant drumming of…
Column: How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?
Do you know your neighbors well enough to realize whether something horrible is happening in the house down the street? To call them if you need help? To trust that they'd put themselves at risk to help…
Column: Graduates Must Resist the Urge for Simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise -- that my generation was bequeathing…
Working for a Song: Vermont Musician Bow Thayer Illustrates Challenge Facing Independent Artists
Gaysville, Vt. -- On a chilly day last week, singer, songwriter and band leader Bow Thayer was replacing the stone steps that run up the rise above his house to the recording studio. He'd torn up the…
Editorial: Hassan's Pitch; N.H. Seeks Connecticut's Help
Interesting letter that New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan wrote to Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, and not just because one state's chief executive was weighing in on pending legislation in another state.…
Letter: Exploring Human Behavior
Exploring Human Behavior To The Editor: I'm puzzled by the May 10 Valley News commentary in which Ernest Hebert writes about The Great Gatsby as though both the current film and the book on which…
Wedding: Nintzel -- Kipka
Plainfield -- Katherine Hope Nintzel and Alexander Edgecombe Kipka were married on May 11, 2013. The ceremony and reception took place at the home of the bridegroom's mother in Dublin, N.H. The bride's…
Is Treatment Required for Higher TSH?
Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 64-year-old woman in fairly good health and who takes no medications. Both my mother, 88, and my sister, 53, take medication for hypothyroidism. In the past four months, I have…
Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Workshop Set for VTC
Randolph Center -- Vermont Technical College will host a free workshop on maintaining hybrid and electric drive vehicles on Thursday and Friday at its Randolph campus . The two-day class is open…
Birth Announcements: May 19, 2013
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital FOLLETT -- A daughter, Hailey Elizabeth Follett, born April 18, 2013, to Jamie and Bruce Follett, of Ascutney. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center CHARLEBOIS -- A daughter,…
Column: A New Strategy for Invasives War
White River Junction We have a weed that grows on our farm, Agropyron repens, commonly called quack grass or witch grass, that grows and sets seed like most weeds but also propagates via a network of…
Business Notes: May 19, 2013
Woodstock -- Gemologist Jeffrey Zayas plans to open a retail jewelry store this week on Central Street in the former Elliott Newman Jewelers location. Zayas, who lives in Woodstock, is a native Vermonter…
Letter: Rape and War Are Linked
Rape and War Are Linked To the Editor: I wonder when we'll realize that rape and war are blood brothers, and that as long as men are trained to kill, they will continue to rape and abuse. The only…
With Gambling On the Decline, Sin City Casino Bosses Build Billion-Dollar Party Scene
To step into club XS at the Wynn Las Vegas is to enter the dreamscape of a modern artist with fetishes for gold and bronze and bodies in motion. A golden-plated frieze made from casts of nude women sits…
Quality Sunglasses Worth the High Cost
When you wake up in the morning and the light is hurt your head The first thing you do when you get up out of bed Is hit the streets a runnin' and try to beat the masses And go get yourself some…
Ex-Sen. Snowe Presses for Bipartisanship
Portland, Maine -- U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe describes a scene out of a Rockwell painting: With Washington crippled by a blizzard, President Obama worked the week before Christmas with a fire roaring in…
Area Nonprofit Leaders Gather for Summit
Hanover -- A former president and CEO of the American Red Cross last week told nearly 60 nonprofit leaders from Vermont and New Hampshire that communicating what they do -- and emphasizing more than just…
So Much More Than Meets the Eye
The engineers won. That much is certain. Mazda Motor Corp. embarked on a noble mission -- to rethink the entire automobile and to treat form and function as one in the process. The aesthetic goal was to…
2014 Mazda 6
Bottom line: The 2014 Mazda 6, of which the Grand Touring version is the top model, is an ordinary-looking sedan gifted with extraordinary technology. It belongs at the top of the list for anyone shopping…
Rocker-Poet Patti Smith Introduces World to Forgotten Favorite Novel
The Slate Book Review presents Patti Smith's introduction to Astragal , the 1965 novel by Albertine Sarrazin, which is being reprinted this month by New Directions. New York -- Perhaps it is wrong…
Letter: The Chaos Around Colburn Park
The Chaos Around Colburn Park To the Editor: "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign; blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind. Do this, don't do that; Can't you read the sign?" -- Five Man Electrical Band. During…
