A new gondola-style connector lift is being planned for Stowe Mountain Resort’s Spruce Peak and Smugglers’ Notch Resort’s Sterling Mountain, documents provided by the resorts to the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources revealed.
Stowe isn’t going to be winning a Webby anytime soon, but a more modern update to the municipal website is on the town’s to-do list. It’s just going to cost almost three times as much as expected.
Construction was expected to start this week on the Smugglers Notch portion of Route 108 between Stowe and Cambridge as improvements to parking and accessibility get underway.
The Agency of Natural Resources will let Stowe Mountain Resort continue its paid parking program indefinitely after the resort provided the state with data asserting its positive effects on traffic during the 2022-2023 ski season.
Stowe officials are pondering whether to go from simply saying all people are welcome, like nearly half the towns in the state have done, to dedicating long hours putting words to action, like roughly a dozen towns have done.
Parked out in front of the public safety building Saturday during a recent open house recruitment driver were the newest tools in the fire department and EMS toolbox: the new fire engine and new ambulance.
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board are accepting public comment and will hold three public hearings on new proposed regulations for trapping and for hunting coyotes with dogs.
Monday, May 29, is Memorial Day, and as many have surely seen U.S. flags popping out of the earth alongside wildflowers, a sure sign that parades, barbecues and other events celebrating and honoring the country’s war dead are just around the corner.
The 2023 Noon Music in May concerts draws to a close on Wednesday, May 31, with a performance by Trio Raconteur.
Barry Pius, a former president and CEO at Stowe Mountain Resort, has joined the Vermont Community Foundation as vice president for finance.
Road construction on Pinnacle Meadow Road in Stowe will affect access to the Stowe Pinnacle at least through the second week of June.
Von Trapp Brewing won a silver medal at the 2023 World Beer Cup in Nashville in early May.
The Waterbury-Stowe Fish and Game Club held its 61st fishing derby for kids on a cloudy and cool day May 21, a perfect day for a fishing derby.
Stowe swimmers Charlotte Brynn and Paula Yankauskas brought home several medals in the 2.4 mile and the premier Golden Mile races in the open water swim event in Lake Cane in Orlando May 20.
Citius. Altius. Fortius. Maximus? The Peoples Academy/Stowe track and field team is so large this year that it takes multiple buses to truck all the athletes to meets.
Here’s how the Raiders fared in the past week.
The Vermont Chamber of Commerce is hosting a reception for the state’s business leaders to honor the career of Sen. Patrick Leahy on Thursday, June 8, 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the University of Vermont’s Dudley H. Davis Center.
The lineup for Wednesday Night Live at Oxbow Riverfront Park has been announced, from performances from the local dance academies to a River Arts free art tent.
Stowe Land Trust offers a variety of programs for the upcoming summer, from a trail volunteer workday at Kirchner Woods to a celebration for its volunteers.
Joe and Mallory (Hebert) Caforia of Williston welcomed their daughter, Harper Madeleine, on May 5, 2023, at University of Vermont Medical Center.
Beginning this summer, St. John’s in the Mountains will take action on its long-held vision to host visual and performing artists, year-round.
Erin Galligan Baldwin’s “My Mother’s Three Mothers” premieres Thursday, May 25, through June 11, at Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier City Hall Arts Center.
While planting the vegetable garden last May, I heard a repeated bird song emanating from the adjacent raspberry patch: “Pleased, pleased, pleased to meetcha.”
Throwback Thursday
In yet another scene that likely wouldn’t be replicated today — at least not like this! — kids get a ride on a Stowe Fire Department truck.
Stowe Rotary raffled a Mansfield canoe at the Stowe Horse Show in July 1975. Perhaps a Pontiac, too?
Ann Lusk, center, who spearheaded the drive to build the Stowe Recreation Path, celebrates with a veritable who’s who of Stowe in the early 1980s as construction of the path gets underway. Notables include Ken Libby, Peter Dresser, Marie Betterley, Gloria Denton, Ed French, Kermit Spaulding, Charles Burnham, Herb Hillman, Leo Clark and Connie Bull.
A sweet shot at the top, from the Octagon, 1964.
Second graders at Stowe Elementary School hold a plant sale, date unknown, and they all look very happy about it.
Mary Small as Rosalie and David Mann as Jonathan in “Oh dad, poor dad, mamma’s hung you in the closet and I’m feelin’ so sad,” which we think headlined the old Stowe Playhouse in the 1970s.
“Pick a card, any card.” A scene from Las Vegas Night from days of yore, circa 1977.
Lamoille Union High School’s track team also uses the PA track on Friday afternoons, hoping one day to have its own.
Lamoille North Supervisory Union Proposed Site Plan - Option 9D (Draft for Review).
Ariana Keene winds up and prepares to let the discus fly.
Morristown firefighters tackle the blaze that killed Roger Haselton, who owned the Brooklyn Street home, locally know as the “pallet palace.”
Sawyer Beck and Ivan Buczek talk track on the oval at Peoples Academy during a recent practice.
Voting is open for the annual 4393 Awards, a reader survey sponsored by the Stowe Reporter and News & Citizen to honor the best in our area. Readers helped shape the survey in May by nominating their favorites in each category. Voting is open through June 23. ONE VOTE PER EMAIL ADDRESS. Winners will be announced this summer.
Students of all ages and mortarboard sensibilities graduated Saturday from Northern Vermont University’s Johnson campus.
Spring begins to show more signs of warmth and sunshine around Lamoille County.
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