Voices of Our Community, Week After Week.

The writers you trust. The stories you look forward to.

Our weekly columns are the heart of The Bridge Weekly Sho-Case — familiar voices, local stories, outdoor reflections, history, humor, wellness, and community life all in one place.

From long-running favorites like Moore Outdoors, Then and There, Bernie’s Beat, Rural Male, and Awakenings, this section brings together the writers and perspectives our readers look forward to each week.

Pull up a chair, take your time, and enjoy the columns that help keep our region connected.

This Week’s Columns

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THE AMMONOOSUC VALLEY RAILWAY ASSOCIATION IS ON TRACK.
THE AMMONOOSUC VALLEY RAILWAY ASSOCIATION IS ON TRACK.

It was there that one of the North Country's largest and busiest railheads was located about 200 yards to my east. The noises I could hear coming from the miniature train sets traveling around the tabletop course paled in comparison to the authentic old-time railroad activities and sounds that occurred every hour of every day along Woodsville's Central Street.

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Rainbow After The Storm
Rainbow After The Storm

These are all recent examples, but I believe we all can look back in our lives at times when it appeared everything was going wrong and/or we couldn’t see what positive outcomes could possibly arise from the situation. However, I believe for many of those instances, we did have a suitable replacement, if not something better, come along.

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Visitor Season Belongs to All of Us
Visitor Season Belongs to All of Us

But tourism also works best when it feels authentic. The Northeast Kingdom does not need to become something else to attract people. Our strength is in our variety: the wildness of Essex County, the lakes and villages of Orleans County, the historic downtowns of Caledonia County, and all the hills, farms, and gathering places in between.

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Leave Fawns Alone
Leave Fawns Alone

Fawns do not attempt to evade predators during their first few weeks, instead relying on camouflage and stillness to remain undetected.  During these times, fawns learn critical survival skills from their mothers.  Bringing a fawn into a human environment results in separation from its mother, and it usually results in a sad ending for the animal..

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Dan Nott on Saturday
Dan Nott on Saturday

The novel centers around the impacts of climate change on the environment, the people who inhabit it, the lengths they will go to to maintain the systems they put in place to protect their homes and lives, and how they adapt when the world as they know it disappears.

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Support River Bend CTC and Work-Based Learning
Support River Bend CTC and Work-Based Learning

The Cohase Chamber of Commerce recognizes that school budgets are more than tight these days, as costs continue to rise rapidly within an environment of decreasing support from the state and federal governments. 

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Standing on the Shoulders of Local Media
Standing on the Shoulders of Local Media

For many years through WYKR, we worked alongside Green Mountain Trading Post and always appreciated the mission Sharon and her team brought to the region. They believed deeply in local businesses, local voices, and community storytelling—values we’ve always tried to uphold ourselves both on the radio and in print.

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Norton’s Mine & The Mystery of Hannah Nute.
Norton’s Mine & The Mystery of Hannah Nute.

Norton was captivated by Monadnock Mountain, once a volcano and now a 3,000-foot-high granite dome. Around 1900, he became convinced that the mountain concealed a rich vein of gold. Determined to uncover this treasure, Norton, at 51, embarked on an extraordinary journey that would define the rest of his life.

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Walk to School Day
Walk to School Day

"This morning, in the rain, something beautiful happened. Volunteers and parents showed up across our city, at intersections, on the sidewalks, at the WSD school entrance, to walk alongside our kids and make sure they felt safe, seen, and supported. They didn't have to do that. They chose to. And that choice matters more than I can say.

Bernie's Beat
Moore Outdoors
Best of Front Porch Forum
Op -Ed
Letters To The Editor
Awakenings
Check It Out
Inside the Huddle
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Passing Strange
Rural Male
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The Random Writer
Then and There
Rural Matters
Granite Gameplan