Oh, great. Now there’s something else for parents to fret about.It turns out that mothers and fathers who want to give their kids a leg up in...
Do me a favor: Avert your eyes from the photo accompanying this column. No peeking! I never wanted to see my sorry mug staring back at me from...
The anticipated closing of the Dartmouth Bookstore by year-end is an utter disaster. For readers, Main Street will not be Main Street, Hanover...
You’ve got to love marketing. No, really. We have no say in the matter — it’s everywhere.Marketing’s immense reach came to mind recently when an...
At the time of this writing, the Red Sox are 7½ games ahead in the standings and are taking a 5-2 lead into the bottom of the eighth. This would...
Alex Trebek is dead to me. TheJeopardy! host was like a member of our family, admittedly a family member we’d never met or spoken to. Even if it...
Soon after a recent fire heavily damaged his newspaper offices in Woodstock, publisher Phil Camp vowed that the Vermont Standard would not miss...
I’m not much of a shopper, really, but I still feel a pang of regret when a local store with loads of history closes the book on it.It could...
We have returned of late from a whirlwind hurling tour of Ireland. In referencing hurling I do not refer to a wretched end to an epic night at a...
We recently saw Avengers: Infinity War, which had nearly $2 billion in worldwide ticket sales by the time our tickets were punched. Hopefully, the...
Spring — tra la — has come to the Upper Valley, arriving on the backs of filthy piles of snow. The receding snow cover confronts us...
It occurred to me recently, as I was here and not in Florida, and the temperature was diving off the high board into depths of minus-20 or more...