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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An old friend once advised me to shake my wallet at the waxing crescent moon, just after the phase of the new (invisible) moon. Doing so will bring money, she said. Well, the sky was clear the other night, and I went outside and saw the crescent moon and shook my wallet at it, and it worked! ...