With a new mural at Johnson Elementary School, the prolific Juniper Creative Arts is continuing to spread its community collaboration art practice while giving the school’s old mascot a new look.
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.
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.
A new exhibit at Grass Roots Art and Community Effort, or GRACE, in Hardwick brings together a contemporary artist’s Cuban work with selected work from a legendary outsider artist in an unlikely yet effective show that bridges the gap between the organization’s past and present.
Filmmakers Tom Berkeley and Ross White will show their Oscar-winning short film, “An Irish Goodbye,” followed by a question-and-answer segment at the Vermont Film and Music Festival.
How do you squeeze as much out of a roughly half-hour one-act play? You keep performing it, something made much more possible when you keep getting chosen as one of the best troupes around.
“Instinctive Paths,” a group exhibit of works in diverse styles and mediums from regional artists is now showing at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne through July 15.
Addilyn Wells is the recipient of the 2023 Shannon Palmer Digital Camp Scholarship Award at The Current in Stowe.
The Art Jam takes place on Main Street in Jeffersonville on Sunday, June 4, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Vermont Studio Center will host two visiting artists talks in June.
Auditions for the Shelburne Players fall show, “Circle Mirror Transformation,” take place Tuesday and Wednesday, June 6-7, 6-8:30 p.m. in the historic town hall.
Auditions for “The Haunting of Hill House” will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 17-81, at 1 p.m. the Hyde Park Opera House, 85 Main St. in Hyde Park.
Stowe High School presented “Noises Off” last weekend. Brimming with slapstick comedy, the play was a completely student-run endeavor, conceived and directed by Stowe High School seniors Evan Reichelt and Kenan Griffith.
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Officials are cutting back how many lake trout are released annually into Lake Champlain after finding, for the first time in decades, sustained successful reproduction in the species — exciting news for biologists and anglers alike.
Ethan Tapper, award-winning forester for Chittenden County, will lead residents of Shelburne through the LaPlatte River Park to show how diverse riverine and upland forest habitats support a wide range of wildlife.
Vermont’s turtles are on the move, and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking for the public’s help in keeping them safe.
Bobolinks, Savannah sparrows and eastern meadowlarks enrich every summer with their songs, but their populations have suffered dramatic, long-term declines due to the loss of their grassland habitat.
This is the time of year when my yard feels bursting with life, as the neighborhood welcomes eastern phoebes, ruby-throated hummingbirds, and broad-winged hawks back from their long migrations.
Here are some of the upcoming programs at Morristown Centennial Library, 7 Richmond St.
The Lamoille County Foodshare will celebrate the memory of board member Karen Loh on Green Bag Day, Saturday, June 10.
A summer tradition will continue this summer as the Morrisville Community Band returns for a series of outdoor concerts and appearances in local parades and events.
RISE, a new summit hosted by the University of Vermont that brings research, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship together to address pressing problems that communities around the country face, will be held at the university’s Davis Center on Wednesday, June 21, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Morristown residents will head to the polls next week to vote on a town operating budget for the second time this year.
Here are some resources and upcoming programs from Healthy Lamoille Valley.
Join Healthy Lamoille Valley on Thursday, June 15, noon-4 p.m. at Jenna’s House in Johnson for an afternoon of action planning to prevent and reduce youth substance use and increase their overall health and well-being.
The Greensboro Free Library welcomes runners and anyone interested in running to meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 1, to network and learn about running as well as local training and racing opportunities.
Local children’s book authors Jennifer and John Churchman visited Waterville Elementary School May 23 for a storytelling presentation.
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 ninth annual Cancer Survivors Social will be held on Sunday, June 4, 2-4 p.m., at the Inn at Shelburne Farms.
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.
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