VERMONT – Several years ago, Linda Suter looked for a small house on the market in central Vermont, hoping to downsize. She was living alone in a three-bedroom Montpelier home that she’d owned for nearly two decades, but could no longer afford it. Real estate prospects that fit her budget[Read More…]
Plainfield
Disasters, Disabilities Forum, June 1
PLAINFIELD – A free public forum and workshops for households having persons with disabilities, chronic illness or debilitating old age who want to be prepared for flood or fire evacuation and sheltering will be held June 1, at the Plainfield Town Hall from 2:30 to 5 p.m. This is also[Read More…]
Auditions Set for “Shrew”
PLAINFIELD – Open auditions for Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” to be presented by the newly-formed Green Mountain Shakespeare Festival, will be held Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Haybarn Theatre on The Creative Campus at Goddard. Auditioners should prepare a short monologue. The production[Read More…]
Celtic Rock Fusion Group, May 9
PLAINFIELD — The Celtic fusion band, Cantrip, performs live Friday, May 9, 7 p.m., at the Plainfield Opera House. With a name drawn from an old Scots word for a magic spell or piece of mischief, Cantrip’s music is a brew of border pipes, fiddle, guitar and three voices. Forming[Read More…]
Grimaldi’s Pastel Paintings Exhibited, May 9
PLAINFIELD — The Cutler Memorial Library will present “Powwow Pastel Paintings,” a new body of work by Susan Ross Grimaldi. The exhibition will open with a reception on Friday, May 9, 6 p.m., and remain on view through August 23. In this series, Grimaldi draws from her Choctaw heritage, capturing the energy[Read More…]
O’Brien Selected Finalist in Essay Contest
PLAINFIELD – Twinfield Union School Senior Hazel O’Brien was selected as a finalist in Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) fifteenth annual State of the Union Essay Contest, Wednesday, March 19. His essay, selected from the 475 students at 25 Vermont high schools who submitted entries, evaluated ranked choice voting, demonstrated the[Read More…]
State Police News
BARTON — On March 29 at 12:06 a.m., Troopers observed a vehicle commit a motor vehicle infraction on Church Street in Barton and initiated a traffic stop. The operator, John Ohear, of Hardwick, displayed multiple indicators of impairment and subsequent investigation led troopers to place him under arrest for Suspicion[Read More…]
Justice Sought Following Accident Involving Town Employee
PLAINFIELD — Last July, a Plainfield town employee was left seriously injured, having been struck by a vehicle while operating a backhoe. Local officials have since expressed their displeasure with the outcome of the incident. In a letter addressed to Commissioner Jennifer Morrison of the Department of Public Safety, the[Read More…]
Sola-Thomas, Team Earn Second Place in Design Competition
POTSDAM, N.Y. — A team of four Clarkson University mechanical engineering students has placed second in the Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition. The team, including Juan Pablo Sola-Thomas of Plainfield, Vt., represented Clarkson University on a national stage in a competition known for fostering creativity, technical excellence and innovation.[Read More…]
Twinfield and Cabot School Budgets Pass
PLAINFIELD, CABOT – Caledonia Central School District budgets for Twinfield Union School District and Cabot School passed in Australian balloting, March 4. Twinfield’s budget of $8,402,577 will result in per pupil education spending of $13,814, which is 5.4% higher than per pupil education spending for the current year. Cabot School’s[Read More…]
Reserve Fund for Future Housing Greenlighted
PLAINFIELD – Laughter and nervous tension rippled through the line of people waiting to enter the Plainfield Opera House for the March 4 town meeting. The future of their town would depend on how they and their neighbors voted. Flooding devastated the town in 2024, and efforts to rebuild the[Read More…]
On Town Meeting Day Plainfield Charts New Future
PLAINFIELD – Lauren Geiger has an ever-present reminder of why she is working toward building new housing in Plainfield, a town of 1,200 people just east of Montpelier. As she looks out of her window, she can see several neighbors who were hit by flooding in recent years. “I’m living[Read More…]
