Forty-year former resident Marge Olivet, now living in Carolina, R.I., with daughter Nancy and son-in-law Rob, is recovering well from hip replacement surgery. Her grandson Isaiah is living in her village home her and working in Montpelier.

Dave and Diana Farnham traded our wintry conditions for a week in balmy Florida.

The cost of mailing a letter has gone up this week. It’s difficult to remember that, for 26 years, the letter rate was 3¢!

You can’t keep a good man down. Although Joel Parmelee was devastated New Year’s day when fire destroyed his barn and the pigs and chickens in it, his brother-in-law has come with a portable saw rig and is getting out spruce logs to build a new barn.

Sunday dinner guest at Mim Herwig’s was Robert Boyce of Williamstown.

Each of the old houses in the Center had its town well to supply its water needs originally. For instance, Doc Allen, in the brick house being renovated by Vermont Tech, has no refrigerator, but used to lower perishables down into the coolness of his well south of the house in the 1950s.

Stephen Meaney was taken to the Leahy Clinic in Boston Tuesday.

The Randolph Center Ladies luncheon was held Monday at the Three Bean Café.