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Are you a New Year's resolution type? I am not, and the reason for that is that seemingly every day, I find myself resolving to do...

At the end of the year, I like to look back on the 51 columns that preceded the ultimate entry to come up with a list of 10 favorites....

I should be famous. Writing this column has revealed to me, and possibly you, that I have a fantastic talent, a rare skill that people...

Looking forward as Stephen, the guy who loves December, loves to bake Christmas cookies, loves to see how people light up their houses...

That it was raining on the day of the Reading Recreation Commission's wreath sale last Saturday was, to put it bluntly, so 2020. What was...

I hope everyone had a good and safe Thanksgiving. Bill and I always spend it alone, so restrictions on gatherings didn’t change how we...

I always throw a disparaging remark at the hairy woodpecker who visits our feeder. “Have you no shame,” I ask this large bird as it...

I attended the zoomed select board meeting last week, and I was happy to see Mary Springer was also in attendance. Up to that date,...

Last June, I paid Sandy and Jim Peplau a socially distanced visit. I was lucky to have chosen the date that I did to drop by. Their...

As I expected, I was up way early last Sunday morning due to turning back the clocks. With the full moon illuminating the house, it was...

All signs point to a lot happening in Reading right now. If you have approached Reading from West Windsor or from the north or south on...

When Bill and I were looking at houses in this area, we came across the white house on Jenne Road just down the hill from us on just...

Indiana Jones didn’t let snakes stop him, even though he hates snakes. When he was trapped in the Well of Souls, did he give up? Nope....

The Reading Recreation Commission had just set up the tent on Puddledock Park and eased the lid off the massive tub of ice cream donated...

Last Friday, I was on my way home from Woodstock. When I turned on to Jenne Road, I saw two smallish, strange-looking birds dart in front...

As usual, I should not have talked about the weather in my last column. The day the paper hit the newsstand, the mercury hit 92. And it...

I hope your Independence Day was lovely. We took our usual ride around and got stuck behind one parade in New Hampshire, but it didn't...

Information on the Reverse Parade, musings about how time flies, updates to the library's operations.

An unexpected honor, a patriotic celebration, and 6 graduating seniors from Reading.

A couple of weeks ago, on my first trip to the Greenhouse to start spring plantings, I took a photo of a painting hanging on the outside...