Casella Waste Management comes through again. These guys volunteered their trucks and crews to clean up after the Nor'icane. They just went into neighborhoods and started moving whatever debris anybody needed to move, no questions, no bills. We tried to cover it at the time, but they weren't in it for the recognition, and their "Aw… Continue reading Tip o’ the hat
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Pool party
True story No. 2 from our summer in the drought-hit suburbs of DC. A fire chief from one of the smaller communities between Baltimore and DC was caught filling his swimming pool in direct contravention of the state of water emergency across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast that year. His excuse? He used the pool (occasionally,… Continue reading Pool party
Car wash
A sharp-eyed reader (Thanks J.!) pointed out a resident of Deer Street in Rutland watering his/her lawn today. That's why it's called voluntary water conservation, and people like that are why it is likely to become mandatory conservation soon. Gee, I hope it wasn't my tax accountant ... True story No. 1 from the drought year we… Continue reading Car wash
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OK, here ... WordPress doesn't support live links in titles. OK people, listen up. There's a fair bit of comment bubbling along about our ability/difficulties getting papers delivered. It started Sunday night with a lone heckler on our live blog (somebody logged in as Mike's PC Repair), wondering in a somewhat sarcastic tone if we were… Continue reading Click here
Around town
Rutland city for once dodged the worst of flooding, with one notable exception. Michael Garofano Sr. has been confirmed dead following his disappearance at the city water inlet in Mendon yesterday. Michael Jr. is missing from the same incident. Crews have been searching for about 25 hours now. The Herald extends its condolences, and thanks… Continue reading Around town
Post-Irene
Just a quick update for our out-of-town friends. We're all fine and dry. Never lost power here, and in fact, we hosted the Murrays, who are without power still as of Monday morning on Baxter Ave. They had some basement flooding and are waiting for CVPS to hook them up. Thanks for the good wishes.
Hurri(cane) up and wait
OK, I've lectured the new reporters on covering storms (for my Foster's buddies, yes, that did include the factoid that pencils write better on wet paper than pens, although I updated it with a reminder to recharge your cell phones and dig out your thumb drives). I've planned out backups and backups of backups in… Continue reading Hurri(cane) up and wait
The Farrell Vending Diet, or Why BMI Sucks
So I'm on one of those semiannual health kicks, lured by nice weather and an abundance of local food to get out, exercise and try to get into shape. But what shape? I'm a little over 5-foot-9 and weigh 175 (on my doctor's scale, which is five pounds heavy, but that's another tale). My BMI… Continue reading The Farrell Vending Diet, or Why BMI Sucks
Saw III: The moral dilemma
The Rutland City PD weren't much help with my stolen saw, although in complete fairness, I didn't really expect them to be. I should have taken better care of the damned thing in the first place. Like, seeing as how I didn't write down the serial number on the saw anywhere, I can't prove it's… Continue reading Saw III: The moral dilemma
Stop! Thief?
Hey, look, somebody's selling a saw exactly like the one stolen from my garage on Craigslist! In Rutland! Five days after mine disappeared! Wow, what a coincidence ... Hello, police?
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