LYNDONVILLE – on April 6, 4-H members from 14 clubs in Caledonia, Essex, Lamoille and Orleans Counties traveled to Lyndon Town School in Lyndonville for the 2024 Northeast Regional 4-H Spring Showcase. Throughout the day, the 4-Hers demonstrated what they have learned through their 4-H projects and club activities by[Read More…]
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Senior Center Provides Many Services
PLAINFIELD – Many Vermont rural communities and neighborhoods could not provide the necessary support and care needed by senior citizens without the help of volunteers, particularly in Vermont which has the second largest aging population per capita in the United States. That is the case with Twin Valley Senior Center[Read More…]
Aubuchon Boost Vermont Hardware Stronghold by Acquiring Bibens Stores
SPRINGFIELD — The East Coast Aubuchon hardware chain is set to purchase seven locally owned locations in Brattleboro, Burlington, Colchester, Essex, South Burlington, Springfield and Woodstock. Vermont’s biggest locally owned group of hardware stores is set to be purchased by what bills itself as the country’s oldest and largest family-held[Read More…]
Green Up Day May 4
WALDEN — Green Up Day, will be held Saturday, May 4, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Bring only roadside garbage to the Walden Town Garage for drop-off. The town will have an extra dumpster for tires for $5 each and truck tires for $10. Green up bags can be[Read More…]
Printmaking Workshops Scheduled at Gallery
MONTPELIER – The T.W. Wood Gallery is offering printmaking classes. The workshops are taught by Professor Phillip Robertson, who teaches art at the Community College of Vermont and Vermont State University-Johnson Campus. Tuition for the workshops is $100 each with materials included. Scholarships and payment plans are available. Workshops include[Read More…]
Free Smoke Alarms, Installation May 4
MONTPELIER – The American Red Cross Northern New England Region is offering free smoke alarm installations for Washington County residents during a “Sound the Alarm” home fire safety event on Saturday, May 4. The organization is partnering with the Berlin, Barre, Warren and Montpelier Fire Departments as well as the[Read More…]
Book Drive for Children’s Literacy Foundation Begins May 6
HARDWICK – The Galaxy Bookshop is celebrating Children’s Book Week, May 6 through May 12, by hosting a book drive for the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF). The book drive will run through the end of Children’s Book Week. Brand new books donated during this time will be given to CLiF[Read More…]
Energy Committee Home Tours, Saturday, May 4
CRAFTSBURY — Craftsbury’s Energy Committee and SaveEnergyNEK offer three home weatherization tours on Saturday afternoon, May 4. The old and new home tours will feature presenters NETO, with income-qualifying free weatherization and appliances; Mark Snyder of Vt. Energy Audits and Matt Moody, energy-efficient home contractor. At 1 p.m. NETO will[Read More…]
Coffin to Speak on Civil War Women
PLAINFIELD – The Marshfield Historical Society and Jaquith Public Library presents “Vermont Women and the Civil War,” with Howard Coffin, May 10, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Twinfield Union School Library. With nearly 35,000 of Vermont’s able-bodied men actively engaged in the Civil War, the monumental task of keeping Vermont’s[Read More…]
Ranked Choice Voting Seminars Scheduled
Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas announced a two-part series of virtual forums which her office will co-host with the League of Women Voters of Vermont (LWVVT) to discuss Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). As interest has grown in RCV, in the state legislature and among municipalities, interest groups and voters, the[Read More…]
Talk About Invasives April 28
GREENSBORO – The Greensboro Conservation Commission will present a program featuring Michael Bald of “Got Weeds?” at the Greensboro Free Library on Sunday, April 28, at 3 p.m. Bald will provide an orientation to terrestrial invasive plants and effective manual control methods. He will briefly outline the impacts of exotic,[Read More…]
Green Up Day May 4
HARDWICK – Green Up Day is Saturday, May 4. Dumpsters and trash drop-off is at the Hardwick Town Garage on Creamery Road from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. Bags can be picked up now until May 3 in the Hazen Union School lobby during regular school hours, or by texting[Read More…]
