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FILE - This May 6, 2013 file photo shows neighbor Charles Ramsey speaking to media near the home where missing women Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were rescued in Cleveland. Ramsey lived next door to where Ariel Castro is alleged to have kept the women in his makeshift prison until Monday afternoon, when Ramsey happened to be home and heard Amanda Berry's scream. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw) MANDATORY CREDIT CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

Column: How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?

Sunday, May 19, 2013

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 you? These were some of the first questions that came to my mind recently as I watched — riveted, appalled and relieved — …

Column: Graduates Must Resist the Urge for Simplicity

Sunday, May 19, 2013

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 you a finer world. We aren’t. The world into which you are entering is rich with challenges. Many are scary. This does not make your generation unique. Through …

Vermont Youth Conservation Corps crew leader Laura DeMaria, of La Grange Park, Ill., digs up Japanese knotweed along the Ottauquechee River in Quechee in August 2012. Flooding from Tropical Storm Irene spread the growth of the invasive plant. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

Column: A New Strategy for Invasives War

Sunday, May 19, 2013

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 rhizomes — white, underground rootlets that, if broken off during weeding, sprout to form new plants on …

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Family members talk with a Cabot Funeral Home employee at the scene of an accident that killed Norma Sawyer, of Bridgewater, in Woodstock yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Another Route 4 Tragedy: Bridgewater Woman, 84, Is Fourth to Die on Road Since March
Volunteer Wendy WIndsor, of Hartford, talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee ,of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks at the Cinderella Project shop in the Raq-On Dance Studio on the Lebanon Mall Wednesday. The Upper Valley Cinderella Project is an all-volunteer effort providing a choice of about 250 donated prom dresses to girls attending the spring dances throughout the Upper Valley. The shop is open Wednesdays from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 - 2 p.m. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Preparing for Prom
Oxbow Union High girls lacrosse captain Dilan Clements leads her team in a cheer at the close of practice in Bradford, Vt., yesterday. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Oxbow Scoring Aces Get Help From Their Friends
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