On a fine, sunny day in February (yes, there were a few of those!), a friend and I decided to snowshoe on the Lower Loop at Eaglecrest. The snow was very deep, after those heavy snowfalls earlier, but ...

I’m on vacation and will be back here Nov. 30. While I’m gone, they’re printing some of my columns from the past. Today’s is from Oct. 21, 1999. Dear Gary: At 12:15 p.m. Oct. 15, while adjusting the ...

WATERBURY – Scanning the snowy meadow sloping down from Vermont 100, it was at first difficult to see the bird that has brought hundreds of admirers to this spot for two months. Then a small, dark ...

Countryrose: “A week ago, my husband and I heard owls near our house. “We are surrounded by oak woods, and we usually hear barred owls, but this time the sound was very different. It was five ...