Ginia Allison sent me an article from the local paper of the new ownership and opening of the Ruggles Mine, which Robert Searles and his wife owned and operated for some 20 years.
As I write this column at the end of December, I have just been diagnosed with Covid. When you read this it will be February—and I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday and are settled in to 2024 and what that brings us.
As I write this column it is 79 outdoors and 84 inside. Unbearable. I realize you will be reading it in January, when it more than likely will be much colder—we could even have snow.
Following is news that I read recently from Dartmouth.
The weather has been mild being almost the warmest on record and almost the record snowless until today, when we got an inch or two, enough to be official.