The number crunchers in the Lamoille South Supervisory Union central office have been working the ledger sheets like it was 2018 all over again, coming up with two separate education budgets for the next fiscal year.
As egg prices rose locally and nationally through 2022 and into the new year, Trista Ringer also saw skyrocketing demand among her neighbors for the eggs laid by her backyard flock of chickens.
There are plenty of painters who get their art displayed on gallery walls all over the world. But how many of them have had their paintings strapped to the boots of the world’s best athletes as they push the envelope on what’s possible for mere seconds in mid-air?
Armed with a report offering definitive paths forward and a Democratic supermajority, legislators are searching for the way forward when it comes to addressing problems with Vermont’s child care system.
Stowe voters will be asked in March to shoulder a nearly 12 percent budget increase after the selectboard Monday approved of $16.6 million in spending for the next fiscal year.
Last month we lost another child Holocaust survivor, Erika Hecht, as that generation finds its final resting place. Erika recalls a story of her wartime experience in her memoir “Don’t Ask My Name”: “One night, (my mother) wakes me and asks me my name.
Despite a bizarre temperature fluctuation on Jan. 20, and thanks to generous supporters, the 22nd annual Stowe Winter Carnival Ice Carving Demonstration Day took off without a hitch.
Dr. John Macy, an orthopedic shoulder surgeon with Mansfield Orthopaedics at Copley Hospital, just returned from Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland where he served as a U.S. Ski and Snowboard team doctor covering the World Cup races.
It wasn’t much of a problem for hunters to shoot a deer this past fall but finding a place to weigh or report their quarry — whether to obey state hunting laws or purely for bragging rights — has gotten to be a hassle.
Jen Ruest knew there was definitely something wrong with her 2-year-old son Ashton on All Saints’ Day, when the toddler was suddenly unable to walk after spending the night before enthusiastically trick or treating.
Area parents seeking child care amid a statewide shortage of places to send their kids for the day or after school could soon feel the Bern.
Twenty years ago, Lamoille County might as well have been the unofficial banker for the entire state, with lawmakers holding the top spots on key House and Senate committees most responsible for controlling how the state spends its money.
Here’s how the Raiders fared in the past week.
Charlotte Brynn of Stowe won three gold medals and set two world records at the World Ice Swimming Championships in France.
Biathlete Bjorn Westervelt of Stowe knew he had one chance to win his first gold medal of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games. He had to pass Ukraine’s Dmytrii Hrushchak in the men’s 12.5K pursuit in either the shooting range or on the final lap.
Last year Stowe Mountain Resort celebrated its 85th anniversary of lift-served skiing. The list of ski areas with 85 years or more is very short. Joining that list this year is an area from my old stomping grounds in New Hampshire, Cranmore Mountain Resort in North Conway.
A coating of white has morphed into a blanket of white. The trail count is slowly expanding and with a bit more aid from the snow gods, perhaps the rest of the trails will finally be open.
All Our Love for Ashton, a fundraiser for a 2-year boy with Stage 4 neuroblastoma, is Sunday, Jan. 29, from 6-8 p.m. at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center.
The sled dog race originally scheduled for Jan. 28-29 has been postponed to Feb. 11-12.
Stowe High School’s hockey teams are holding their annual Pink the Rink fundraiser for the Lamoille Area Cancer Network.
Knights of Columbus Council #5041 holds a silent auction Santa Maria steak dinner on Friday, Feb. 3, 5-6:30 p.m. at the Crosby Center behind the Most Holy Name of Jesus Church, 301 Brooklyn St., Morrisville.
Girls on the Run Vermont needs coaches for its physical activity-based youth development program that inspires students in grades 3 and 4 to be joyful, healthy and confident.
Join The Current on Thursday, Jan. 26, from 5-7 p.m. for an opening reception for “Tierra Dentro,” a solo exhibition by Esperanza Cortés.
On Wednesday, Feb, 22 at 6 p.m., the Lamoille Family Center will host a free workshop on Zoom for parents of children in special education programs.
The Cranmore Mountain Skimobile.
Artists carve sculptures during the speed competition at The Alchemist Brewery.
The hens at Long Winter Farm on Stowe’s Nebraska Valley Road gather around the hopper in the chicken coop.
Pink the Rink is on Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Stowe Arena.
A throng of people marched through Morrisville last week as part of the annual statewide Homelessness Awareness Day. One of the marchers holds a photograph of Darrell Adams, a man who died last summer after experiencing years of homelessness. Vermont’s annual point-in-time count of people without a home takes place this week, during what is typically the coldest time of the year.
Stowe’s TJ Guffey looks to get around a couple of Winooski players during a 74-28 loss on Jan. 19.
Painter Scott Lenhardt, who has created 60 snowboard designs for Burton, is the featured artist in the current exhibit at the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, located at 1 South Main Street in Stowe. Museum hours: 12-5 Thursday through Sunday.
A sign warns would-be adventurers to look, not explore, a frozen Moss Glen Falls in Stowe.
Images and essays that show a year both jarring and joyous, heartbreaking and hopeful.
The Lamoille Union High School dance team performs at half-time during girls’ hoops against Lyndon Jan. 10.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Photographer Gordon Miller had plenty to say, and he let his camera lens tell the story all year in Stowe. Here are some of his choicest images.
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