Evan Premo and Mary Bonhag
Most people spend their lives trying not to hear everything in the interest of listening attentively to one thing: a friend speaking, a bird singing outdoors, a piece of music performed live. But what if we trained ourselves to listen to every sound at once?
That s one objective of deep listening, a meditative process conceived and taught over the past several decades by musician-composer Pauline Oliveros. Before she died in 2016, Oliveros developed a course for people who wanted to learn how to teach deep listening.
Evan Premo, a double bassist who lives in Marshfield, completed the course during the pandemic and offered an online deep listening workshop series through Scrag. Given its success, he ll offer a second series starting February 26.
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ADDISON COUNTY Troopers at the New Haven barracks of the Vermont State Police cited two men for driving under the influence in separate cases last week.
In the first incident, troopers at around 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 3 responded to Knox Hill Road in Orwell for the report of an intoxicated man who was lost and out of gas. Police identified the driver as 65-year-old Roger LaDuc of Castleton.
Police report that LaDuc was driving on Knox Hill Road when his vehicle slid off the roadway and became stuck in the snow. While speaking with LaDuc, troopers detected indicators of alcohol impairment and screened him at roadside.
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SALISBURY A Brandon woman was killed on Saturday when the snowmobile on which she was riding crashed while coming off Lake Dunmore.
Kristle Humiston, 39, was pronounced dead at the scene on the west side of the lake a little before 7 p.m. on Feb. 6.
Snowmobile driver Amanda Warren, 43, of Salisbury was taken to Porter Hospital in Middlebury and transferred to UVM Medical Center in Burlington to be treated for her injuries.
Vermont State Police troopers responded to the report of the crash on Lake Dunmore in the Rustic Lane area near Camp Songadeewin in Salisbury. While enroute troopers were notified that one woman involved in the crash was unresponsive.
BRANDON â A good memory comes in handy when youâre older than 90 and have decided to write a book about your life.
âI have a photographic memory,â said Sanford Rouse, 92, of Neshobe House. âI can remember things back to when I was 5 years old.â
Which means that while Rouse remembers trudging a mile to a one-room schoolhouse in East Shoreham in 40 below zero temperatures, he also remembers when President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the New Deal to get the United States out of the Great Depression.
âWe also had, back then, they called it the poor house. Nowadays they call it the food shelf,â Rouse said. âWe had commodities like canned peaches, cans of peanut butter, for everybody. At the time the Depression was going on, those were years we canât forget. It lives in your heart forever.â