…and Thomas Jefferson:
CLICK HERE and read a story about the Pursuit of Happiness.

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It may not be midnight sun, but these final days of June, the skies begin to brighten just after four a.m. and if you look north, you’ll see dusk departing close to ten p.m.
Unfortunately, the long days haven’t been nearly as long as we’d like…we’ve had almost daily rain, high humidity and temperatures on a [...]

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Exactly thirty-four years ago…June 26, 1975…The Jackson 5 at the Nanuet Star Theatre, Nanuet, New York.
photo courtesy of Mark “The Count” Glick, Theater-Go-Round tribute site.
R.I.P. Michael

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Sooooo…Victoria Scheufler wants Caledonia North Supervisory Union board members to get out there and defend her honor against the dumpster-diving mutant subclass that’s plotting against her.
Well maybe she didn’t use those exact words in last Friday’s Caledonian-Record, but that was the vibe I got when I read how she asked the CNSU executive board to [...]

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There are gazillions of Self Help books out there.  Most are a waste of your time and money.
This is not one of those.  There’s no magical cure for what ails you, you will not become a healthy, buff overnight success when you read this.  If you want to get something out of this book, you [...]

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Summer\’s Here – James Taylor

Summer’s here, I’m for that. Got my rubber sandals, got my straw hat.Got my cold beer, I’m just glad that it’s here.
Summer’s here, that suits me fine. It may rain today but I don’t mind.It’s my favorite time of the year and I’m glad that it’s here.
Old man wintertime, he goes [...]

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A weekend standoff in West Burke ended when police entered a home and found the owner dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Vermont State Police say they responded Friday to the Gaskill Hill Road area home of 33-year-old Edward Goodwin for a reported domestic disturbance. Police say Goodwin had threatened his family with a shotgun [...]

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Something spectacular happens on Wednesday evenings in the summer at Bandstand Park in Lyndonville.  For many, many decades, the Lyndon Town Band, a loose aggregation of musicians from all around the Northeast Kingdom, has come to  play in the gazebo for their family, friends and neighbors.

Under partly cloudy skies, a new conductor led a collection [...]

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I was absolutely certain that my niece told me her wedding was going to be at “The Elks.” Absolutely, positively certain.

A wedding and reception held at the Elks Lodge in Somersworth, New Hampshire? A great idea. Great, except for the fact that there is no Elks Lodge in Somersworth, [...]

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Friday is Dave Cobb’s last day as principal at Lyndon Town School.
For reasons we still don’t know, he is leaving a job that he loves.   If you have read Todd’s posts on this “resignation,” you know that we have all been lazy -  we have not attended school board meetings, we have assumed that all [...]

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