MONTPELIER – A long time ago, when I was just a 22-year-old untested college student, the select board in Morristown appointed me chair of the town planning commission. It was the mid-1970s, and land use planning and zoning were still in their infancy. I quickly realized I had been thrown[Read More…]
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Krowinski says she hears Vermonters
MONTPELIER – Speaker Jill Krowinski made the following statement on Act 181 and pending legislation in the House on April 3. “In 2024, we passed Act 181 which seeks to reform our decades old Act 250 land use policy and make it easier to develop housing while also making our[Read More…]
Concert series presents dance company, April 8
MONTPELIER – The Farmers Night concert series concludes its season on April 8, 7:30 p.m., with Tunbridge-based Mountain House Dance Company, directed by Emily Howe. The program brings together community-based dancers of all ages throughout the region to present many styles of dance from around the globe. The Farmers Night Concert[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…]
Grants awarded to local farm, forest and food businesses
MONTPELIER – Earthbound Forest Services of Cabot and Stannard Farm Vermont Pure Maple Syrup of Craftsbury, have received grants through the Working Lands Enterprise Board (WKEB). Earthbound Forest Services, a logging business, received $28,000 for a forwarding wagon to expand low-impact timber extraction. Stannard Farm Vermont Pure Maple Syrup received a $7,321[Read More…]
REV UP VT aims to empower disability vote
MONTPELIER – Dawn Fancher wanted to vote on the Plainfield town budget at this year’s Town Meeting Day on March 3. But due to a disability, they couldn’t attend in person, and the ballot they received didn’t include that question. “Our town does floor vote for the town budgets, so[Read More…]
Dr. Roger Bradford Kellogg
MONTPELIER – Dr. Roger Bradford Kellogg passed away peacefully on Sunday, Feb. 22, at Central Vermont Medical Center, surrounded by his friends and family. Roger was born in Boston, Mass., September 25, 1944, to Celina and Edmund Kellogg. He was one of four children: Celina Moore, Ted Kellogg and Eliza[Read More…]
Burke paintings, drawings exhibited at State House Gallery
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…]
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…]
Erection of Presidential statue planned, April 1
MONTPELIER — Invisible Hardwick has been selected to provide the keynote speech on the Vermont Statehouse lawn for the uncloaking of the first of 50 Donald Trump statues to be erected in state capitals throughout the U.S. The event is scheduled Wednesday, April 1, half past 1 to forevermore. The[Read More…]
Rights bill passes after raid raises red flags
MONTPELIER – State police and protesters were involved in an event on March 11, where federal agents served a warrant, raiding a property and disrupting South Burlington traffic in search of a person who wasn’t at the property involved. A day later, the Vermont House took up H.849, an act[Read More…]
