MONTPELIER – Brattleboro artist and state legislator, Mollie S. Burke, has a solo exhibit “Realism and Magical Realism,” at the Vermont State House Cafeteria Gallery. Burke’s paintings and drawings bring the viewer into a world filled with environments that present a sense of place and home, surrounded by nature. Burke’s imagery includes[Read More…]
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Group exhibit features 13 artists, through May 22
MONTPELIER – Artists from the United States and Canada working in drawing, painting and sculpture will be exhibited May 22nd, with an opening reception on Friday, April 3, from 4 to 8 p.m., at the Hexum Gallery. The group exhibit, “Shadowland,” features works in black and white and centers on[Read More…]
New T.W. Wood exhibits, through May 23
MONTPELIER – “Wandering in Hope” by Samantha M. Eckert and “Springtide 2026” by the Vermont Watercolor Society are contemporary exhibits at the T.W. Wood Museum through May 23, with an Art Walk reception Friday, April 3, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., and an artist talk at 6 p.m. On view[Read More…]
Works by Pitkin on exhibit through August
PLAINFIELD – Cutler Memorial Library will host an opening reception for “Mortal Bloom,” a photography exhibition by Hannah Carpenter Pitkin on Thursday, April 10, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through August 1. The exhibition features work created through the historic wet-plate collodion process, including tintypes and other[Read More…]
Roundabout, parking project, theme park work to begin
HARDWICK – A last-minute meeting of area select boards Monday evening drew a crowd as they took the advice of March town meeting attendees to prioritize economic development efforts in area towns. The idea, spearheaded by Hardwick’s Town Manager and Select Board Chair, was inspired by the massive construction project[Read More…]
Bezos buys Gazette, begins local news buying spree
HARDWICK – Jeff Bezos, Wealthy founder of Amazon.com and owner of The Washington Post, today announced his purchase of The Hardwick Gazette and the launch of a new “local-Ish” journalism initiative, effective April 1. Bezos described The Gazette as “a hick-town newspaper nobody’s ever heard of” which would offer him[Read More…]
Smarties®, Cabot Creamery debut cheese in candy collaboration
UNION, N.J., – Smarties Candy Company and Cabot Creamery today unveiled an innovation in snack engineering: Seriously Smart Cheese, the world’s first cheddar-forward candy tablet.The collaboration reimagines Cabot’s award-winning Seriously Sharp Cheddar through the lens of Smarties.To create Seriously Smart Cheese, Cabot’s cheddar is carefully pulverized into a fine powder[Read More…]
Buffalo Mountain mega-slide first town forest addition
HARDWICK – The installation of a “mega-slide” at the peak of Buffalo Mountain will be complete on April 1, much to the delight of many tired hikers who just can’t bring themselves to make the trek to the bottom. The slide is the first addition to the Hardwick Town Forest[Read More…]
Sasquatch roams freely, heifers missing
HARDWICK – Offices of the Hardwick Peace Department (HPD) have recently been searching the area between Hardwick Center and East Hardwick following reports and a photo of a sasquatch roaming freely. The Laggis Farm has reported missing heifers over the last several months, thought to be stolen, but computerized records[Read More…]
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Sterling pivots to ancient agriculture, education
CRAFTSBURY – The Sterling College Board announced plans last week to pivot to a non-degree curriculum officials managing the campus have been enticed by since its inception in 1887. The plan has the campus dropping all motorized and electrified conveniences, plus all its internet connections, returning to ancient agricultural and[Read More…]
