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The annual Memorial Day ghost walk will start Monday, May 30, 11 a.m. at Rusty Parker Park in Waterbury.

Kim Brown The end is in sight. No indication from Mother Nature, or those lesser minions known as the snow gods, has given any reason to suppose that the ski season will be extended past April 18, the final date when reservations can still be made to ski or ride at Stowe Mountain Resort. The Sensation Chair has closed. Gondola operations are now a thing of the past. The Front Four is now open only when temperatures permit since the resort doesn’t seem to have much enthusiasm for allowing access to routes with frozen surfaces. Last weekend was warm and this first week of April is going to...

Dennis Roland with his new Starlink satellite internet dish When Dennis Roland retired to the hills outside Waterbury in 2014, he knew part of the price of a slower pace of life would be slower internet service. He didn't know it would practically cost him his sanity. As a chemist at a New Jersey pharmaceutical company, Roland had been used to collaborating with colleagues around the world using lightning-fast internet services. But from his new home at the end of an unpaved road in the Worcester Range, Roland's connection was agoni...