By KATY SAVAGE [email protected] Snow Frye started giving massages when she was 8. Frye, 62, massaged her grandmother’s arthritic joints for 25 cents a week every morning before school. Frye said she used her earnings on her siblings. She bought her nine brothers and sisters treats or took them square[Read More…]
Lifestyles
National Donate Life Month statistics
National Donate Life Month April 2018 Donation and Transplantation Statistics — In 2016, more than 33,600 transplants brought renewed life to patients and their families and communities (from 9,900 deceased and 5,900 living donors. — More than 116,000 men, women and children await lifesaving organ transplants. — About[Read More…]
Forcing flowers on spring-blooming trees and shrubs
By HENRY HOMEYER The Gardening Guy I recently got a new tool that I’ve been using to pick stems of forsythia and pussy willows. Stems of spring-blooming shrubs put in a vase with water will bloom earlier inside than they would outside — and I’m ready for blossoms. Often the[Read More…]
Of students and seedlings
By Becky Nelson Bramblings The first rain showers of April have hit the fields and forests at the farm. It’s difficult to believe that spring is really here, though, as there is still snow in the maple orchard and still ice on the farm pond. You can see hints of[Read More…]
Bring the tissues: ‘Love, Simon’ is the best romantic comedy in years
By JASON GUYER iRate Everyone deserves a great love story. Catchy, no? This is the tagline from the film “Love, Simon.” It is one of the better taglines I have heard in a long time, and one that fully expresses the meaning of the film. We all deserve a great[Read More…]
Nutrition Services Department named Team of the Month at MAHHC
WINDSOR — Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC) has announced that the entire Nutrition Services Department at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center has earned the honor of Team of the Month for March 2018. The Nutrition Services Department provides healthy meals to patients, employees and visitors 365 days[Read More…]
The similarity of farming and fishing
By BECKY NELSON Bramblings About 10 days after reading that an 18th century shipwreck in York, Maine had resurfaced on the beach following a series of powerful nor’easters, we took an afternoon off and headed to the beach. I was amazed how many people were walking on the beaches up[Read More…]
If you could, would you take it all back?
By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER The Book Worm If you could, would you take it all back? Every misunderstanding, cross word, and cold shoulder, erased. Time wasted, retrieved. Hurtful situations never happened. Would you eliminate each of them or, as in the new novel “As You Wish” by Jude Deveraux, would you[Read More…]
Gonzalez stars in ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ at Newport Opera House
NEWPORT — The Newport Opera House Association is excited to announce their spring musical, “Once Upon a Mattress.” Packed with humor and colorful characters, the show is a fun-filled musical retelling of the classic story, “The Princess and the Pea.” Taking on the leading role of Princess Winnifred the Woebegone[Read More…]
Keene Idol returns, Claremont auditions to be held
KEENE, N.H. — In the 14th year of Keene Idol, the event returns to its namesake, bigger and better than before. Although the five-week singing competition visited Bellows Falls, Vermont in 2016 and 2017 as Southern Vermont Idol, it has now returned to the Monadnock Region. Susan MacNeil will produce the[Read More…]