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BELLOWS FALLS â It may not be long, but itâs steep and âBlack Diamondâ all the way.
The Bellows Falls Community Ski Tow hasnât seen much activity in recent years, due to a lack of consistent snow and equipment problems.
But last weekâs record snowfall of close to 30 inches of powder has inspired some dedicated snow lovers to troubleshoot the towâs problems and get it running for area kids just as their Christmas vacation starts.
The small, lighted and rustic hill will be running Wednesday, from 5 to 8 p.m. It was open on Tuesday afternoon as well, and opened this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with some mechanical difficulties periodically cutting into the ski towâs time.
One of my favorite movies when I was growing up was
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In it, the main protagonist, Wayne Szalinski, is a nerdy scientist-slash-home-gadget-inventor who develops a shrink ray in his attic that accidentally shrinks his kids and two neighbor kids down to the size of gnats.
But it was Wayne’s other inventions that always caught my eye in particular, his Rube Goldberg-esque system for announcing when the mail has arrived. I’m no Wayne Szalinski and I’m certainly not an accomplished engineer, but building a system to let me know when the mail has arrived has been an ongoing smart home goal of mine.
Wed Nov 08 2017 at 21:46:00
Anyone who has done hard, repetitive work for a living knows that the grind can worm its way into dreamtime. Wash enough dishes, slit enough turkey necks, mop enough floors, punch enough steel bumpers on the thousand-tonner, and you find that suddenly all your most familiar dreams are being subjugated.
That s how it is now, too, but with the mortars. A dream left over from the year I spent living on a reservation:
I bury the tomahawk in the man s face, and howl.
I am wearing a deerskin loincloth. I am covered in paint made from mud and berries. Around my neck hangs a totem made of human teeth.
A roundup of Florida education new from around the state.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signs into law a bill to increase Florida s minimum salary for public school teachers to $47,500 on June 24, 2020, while at Mater Academy in Hialeah Gardens. [ The Florida Channel/WPLG ]
Published Dec. 14, 2020
Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, government leaders in Tallahassee made a big show of directing money into teacher salaries rather than bonuses, and called 2020 the âyear of the teacher.â As the year winds to a close, local school district leaders are trying to meet the targets that the governor and lawmakers established. Read on for the latest on that story and other Florida education news.