Cassandra Benito, a Culinary Arts student at Farmington High School, puts the finishing touches on "Chocolate Extravaganza" during the Taste of Chocolate fundraiser for F.A.C.E. at Avon Old Farms Hotel on February 9. Photo/ Robin Gourd
     
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Thrills in the Hills
By Ursula B.G. Kilner, Salisbury
     One of the exciting and unpredictable things about living on an RFD route is winter. Will our mailbox, which we have so carefully positioned according to postal and local government instructions, survive upright through each year's snowstorms?
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Inquiry
Dedicated to the seven Columbia astronauts, who were heroes well before February 1.
By David R. Zukerman, NYC and Winsted
     How many lives are lost each day?
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Old Valentine
Today I waxed each ski,
Then checked the bindings,
By James Kelleher, Goshen
     The fit of old brown boots.
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Saint Valentine
Saint Valentine was very wise
By W.E. Dion, Terryville
     He knew what life is all about.
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In the Streets Where Women Cry
By Dallas Cline, Ashley Falls
     In 1969 I watched the news from Vietnam on television. United States soldiers had just come in and were in the process of trying to take over a small city.
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