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Opinion

Library news: More reading, some refunds this month

Columns

As daylight hours increase, the library continues to experience high levels of activity due to many taking advantage of the AARP volunteers, who generously dedicate their time to assist with tax preparation. The volunteers will be available until March 15. If anyone is interested in this ...

Martha Sez: Getting saucy over fascination with gnocchi

Columns

I have become fascinated with gnocchi. Why? I don’t know. My preoccupation with gnocchi, like my compulsion to work inscrutable Victorian crochet patterns and grow wild toadflax from seed, is a mystery even to me. Perhaps the fascination began, not with the actual food, which I had never ...

Finding fairness a victory in competitions

Columns

By NAJ WIKOFF The first World Cup Ski Jumping competition in the United States that featured both men and women jumpers was in Lake Placid from Feb. 6 to 9. In another first on the international level, the women received parity in prize money with the men. As is true in many sports, male ...

Martha Sez: Seeing red while feeling the love on Valentine’s Day

Columns

The full moon is shining in through my window as I type this column for Valentine’s Day. It is very early in the morning. Across the street, huge plow trucks are clearing mountainous piles of snow in the moonlight. They are loading what must be tons of snow into dump trucks that cart it ...

World View: The promise and the peril

Columns

Mitchell Reiss — the former president and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and before that, director of the Reves Center for International Studies and vice-provost for International Affairs at the College of William and Mary — was asked by Spectator, the prestigious British ...

Best of Mountains Readers’ Choice contest returns

Editorials

The Readers’ Choice for Best of the Mountains 2025 is back! This annual contest is where you, our readers, have the last word. This is our third year with all the nominating and voting done online. This proved very successful with over 64,000 votes last year! This contest will once again ...