PLAINFIELD – Knit night will be held Tuesday, April 4 and April 18, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Cutler Memorial Library. On Knit Night, all ages may learn to knit with Lynda Volz. The knitting group is open to all levels and interests: knitters, crocheters, novices, and[Read More…]
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Open Play begins April 6
PLAINFIELD – Open play will be held Thursdays, April 6, April 13, April 20, and April 27, from 10 a.m. to noon, at the Cutler Memorial Library. This is a casual, open-ended play experience at the library with toys that foster imagination, interaction, and exploration and the newest storybooks to[Read More…]
Easter Egg Hunt on April 8
HARDWICK – An Easter egg hunt will be held April 8 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Hazen Union School. The hunt will begin promptly at 10 a.m. Showing up later will mean there is a good chance the eggs will be all collected. Anticipate that the fields will[Read More…]
Seeking EMT Volunteers
HARDWICK – Hardwick Rescue is looking for new EMT Volunteers and is considering offering an EMT course and would like to know how many people would be interested in taking it. The course would run for five months, one day a week from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., including one[Read More…]
Farmers Night Concert Series presents Comedian Josie Leavitt
MONTPELIER – The next to last Farmers Night performance will be on Wednesday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m., featuring “From the Dump to the Door: A Vermont Politician’s Evolution” with Josie Leavitt a comic, storyteller, stand-up teacher, cancer advocate and now a State Representative. The Farmers Night Concert Series is[Read More…]
Vermont Supreme Court Gallery Presents Paintings by Kate Burnim
MONTPELIER – The Vermont Supreme Court Gallery presents Liminal Arc, a collection of paintings that contemplates space, time, separation and togetherness, boundaries, transition, and memory, giving shape to liminality as physical, emotional, and metaphorical. These paintings were created over the past four years during a span of time when the[Read More…]
Ghost Photos Appear in Catamount’s Rankin Gallery
ST. JOHNSBURY – Catamount Arts will present “Ghosts: Civil War Portraits,” by William Betcher, in the arts center’s Rankin Gallery on Eastern Avenue. The exhibition will run from March 20 through June 4. An artists’ reception to celebrate this and the Fried Family Gallery exhibition is scheduled for April 15.[Read More…]
Owls on the Nest
by Anna Morris QUECHEE — Among the very earliest signs of spring are the strange caterwauls of the barred owls that haunt our woods: “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?” Their hooted conversations, thrown back and forth through forests all over New England, signal the territory disputes,[Read More…]
Bringing Spring into the House
by Henry Homeyer CORNISH FLAT, N.H. – Even though spring has arrived according to the calendar, I fear winter is not done with us yet. Mother Nature is full of tricks, so I am not packing away my snow shovel just yet. But to reassure me that she will provide[Read More…]
Writing Group Meets April 1
ALBANY – The Albany Library Writing Group will meet on Saturday, April 1, and April 8 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. This is a creative space, where writers support each other in facing down the blank page. The group is facilitated by assistant librarian and writer Krista Mayer. Teens[Read More…]
The Rich Get Richer
To the editor: The Vermont Land Trust gave Don Joslin of Waitsfield, zero dollars (information from the Vermont Property Transfer tax returns) for the development rights to his scenic (views of all three ski areas) 150-acre dirt farm, with no running water, three-hole outhouse and knob and tube wiring. Yet[Read More…]
AWARE Report
HARDWICK – AWARE served 20 people from March 19 through March 26. AWARE is a nonprofit organization, established in 1984, dedicated to resolving the causes and effects of domestic violence and sexual assault in the greater Hardwick area.The 24-hour hotline is 802-472-6463.
