BARRE – Opera Vermont performs Gioachino Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” Saturday, May 23, at 7:30 p.m. This take on the Cinderella story has been designed for opera aficionados, as well as families and first-time opera-goers. Opera Vermont Artistic Director Joshua Collier sets the production of “La Cenerentola” in a bright, “Seussian-esque” universe of bold color,[Read More…]
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Moody, lead singer of the Wailin’ Jennys, brings her band to BOH, May 29
BARRE – Ruth Moody, lead singer of The Wailin’ Jennys and frontwoman for her own band, stops at the Barre Opera House for a show on Friday, May 29, at 8 p.m. Moody is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a solo artist and a founding and[Read More…]
Brown Earns Thunder Road Win in Community Bank 150
BARRE – Even as snowflakes fell during the first driver’s meeting of the season at Thunder Road on Sunday, May 3, race fans filled the Nation’s Site of Excitement to witness the frigid opening event of year on Quarry Hill. A pit area held 119 cars with the Street Stocks[Read More…]
Beware the bears
by Central Vermont Solid Waste Management DistrictBARRE – Bear experts recommended bringing in bird feeders. Bruins can smell sunflower seeds from a great distance and will return to food, searching for easy calories, including trash and compost. This is unhealthy for the bear who need to eat their natural forage[Read More…]
Betsy-Ann Lingenfelter
BARRE – Betsy-Ann Lingenfelter, 83, of Barre, formerly of Hardwick, died April 23, at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. She was born October 30, 1942, in Passaic, N.J., the daughter of the late Karl and Marguerite (Titus) Lingenfelter. She graduated from Hardwick Academy and continued her education at the[Read More…]
Vermont Philharmonic performs at Opera House, May 3
BARRE – The Vermont Philharmonic will feature a performance of Beethoven’s “Violin Concerto in D” in a concert celebrating spring on Sunday, May 3, at 2 p.m., at the Barre Opera House, with music director Lou Kosma conducting. Soloist Arturo Delmoni, violinist, will perform the concerto. He has performed with major[Read More…]
WGDR approved for antenna upgrade
PLAINFIELD – WGDR received approval from the FCC in early March to move its antenna to a Plainfield tower on a ridgeline 1,000 feet higher than the 30-year old antenna now located on the former Goddard College Campus. “The FCC just did something right!” said Central Vermont Community Radio Executive[Read More…]
Mattea performs at Opera House, April 17
BARRE – Country, bluegrass and folk icon Kathy Mattea peerforms at the Barre Opera House on Friday, April 17, at 8 p.m. Hailed by The Washington Post as “one of Nashville’s finest song interpreters,” Mattea has enjoyed acclaim during her 35-year career, including two Grammy wins, four Country Music Association[Read More…]
Bread & Puppet Theater begins Spring tour, March 26, 27
GLOVER – The Bread & Puppet Theater’s 63rd year begins with a tour of the Northeast and Eastern Seaboard. “The End of the World Never Minding Show,” is a new puppet show featuring our upside-down situation, a revolt orchestra, screaming choirs and a reckoning with the catastrophe of logic. As[Read More…]
Lamoille ends 63-year championship drought
BARRE – The roller coaster ride of the Lamoille boys basketball team ended in championship glory over the weekend as they knocked off undefeated Hartford to capture their first Division II state title since 1963. After mounting come-backs to survive and advance against Middlebury and Fair Haven in the quarterfinal[Read More…]
Blue Devils stun Twinfield-Cabot boys to capture Division IV title
BARRE – Sixth-seeded Williamstown capped off a Cinderella run through the Division IV state tournament over the weekend with a stunner over the top-seeded Twinfield-Cabot boys basketball team. Senior big man Nick Mascitti finished off an epic run through the state tournament with 18 points and 12 rebounds to lead[Read More…]
Irish traditional band performs March 14
BARRE – One of Ireland’s traditional groups, Dervish, will be at the Barre Opera House, March 14, at 7:30 p.m. Originating from County Sligo, Ireland, Dervish features some of the country’s finest traditional musicians, fronted by vocalist and bodhrán player Cathy Jordan, winner of the TG4 (the Irish Public television[Read More…]
