Top Stories for Tuesday June 19, 2007

Bomb Hoax Closes Main Street
By Mike Cameron
    Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department Chief Rick Cole and Crewmembers prepare to blast a suspicious package with their high powered water cannon after it was discovered by the town's parking control officer under a drop box in front of the Middlebury Post Office at about 12:30 p.m. on Friday June 15th, 2007.  Middlebury Police were notified and Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley ordered the area around the post office and upper Main Street cordoned off and buildings in the area evacuated according to bomb threat protocol.    The state's bomb squad was notified.    [ more ]

Middlebury Actors Workshop’s Seventh Summer Season: Beyond Therapy

   Boy meets girl.  Boy loses girl.  Boy and girl seek therapy - then things get really crazy!  Beyond Therapy, Christopher Durang's “divinely demented comedy” will be performed by Middlebury’s professional ensemble, Middlebury Actors Workshop, from June 28 through July 8 at the A.R.T. Studio Theater in Middlebury.   Set in the 1970’s, the decade of sensitive men, conflicted women and rampant psychotherapy, Beyond Therapy follows an unlikely couple through the first hilarious days of their courtship, including late-night visits to wacky therapists and run-ins with lovers and other strangers.  When it opened on Broadway in 1982, Rex Reed declared Beyond Therapy “one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in years!”  [ more ]

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