For craftsman Phil Seeley, everything starts with a slab of steel.
There’s No Place Like Home, a benefit concert and silent auction for Lamoille Housing Partnership, will take place at Stowe Cider on Saturday, Nov. 18, starting at 8 p.m.
With the help of a grant from the Vermont Community Fund, River Arts and Morristown Centennial Library have created the Morristown Free University, a series of free programs next April.
Lamoille County neighborhoods are just a few days from being overrun with brightly attired Barbies and Marios, creepy killer dolls and traditional witches, vampires and werewolves.
Every gardener has a fall to-do list to complete: pulling annuals, raking leaves and storing hoses and other garden tools. They aren’t the most exciting tasks, but planning for your spring garden now saves time next year.
Like the foliage roiling through surrounding hills, the pastry case at Two Sons Bakehouse in Hyde Park is a display of true autumnal feeling.
The Albany Methodist Church hosts its annual fall sale to coincide with deer season. Or hunt while he — or she — hunts.
The Manor in Morrisville is holding its annual Winter Wonderland craft fair on Saturday, Dec. 2, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 577 Washington Highway.
A harvest barter fair will be held Sunday, Nov. 12, 1-3 p.m., at Lakeview Elementary, 189 Lauredon Avenue, Greensboro.
Students in the building and electrical trade programs at Green Mountain Technology and Career Center have been donating their labor to Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity to build affordable homes for those who need them, including a home now under construction in Morrisville.
The Bakersfield Historical Society hosts its annual fall craft fair and crock pot café on Saturday, Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the society’s building, 80 East Bakersfield Road.
Elusive, beady-eyed and adorable, the American marten, colloquially known as a pine marten, has a long, tumultuous history.
The Vermont Outdoor Business Alliance presented its annual Sen. Patrick Leahy Trailblazer Award to Johannes von Trapp of Stowe at its Outdoor Economy Summit, held Nov. 2 at HULA in Burlington.
In late autumn, well past the showy blossoms of summer, after even fall’s late bloomers have faded and the trees have dropped their leaves, there is one shrubby plant still putting on a flower show: American witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana).
Virtually join ParentIN CVSD at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, as it hosts Erin Walsh of Spark and Stitch Institute for a free, live webinar for caregivers and educators called “Teens, Social Media and mental health that addresses screen time struggles and questions with science and understanding.
A one-on-one with World Cup and Olympic alpine ski racer Ryan Cochran-Siegle will take place virtually on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. as part of the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum’s Red Bench speaker series.
Do you wonder what the letters LGBTQ mean? Has the public discussion left you with questions like: How many people identify this way? Why do people often put a plus sign at the end? What does queer mean? What is the difference between sex and gender? How do you know what pronouns to use?
The Craftsbury Public Library will host Nicole Civita, co-author of “Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems Through Relationship,” for a talk about her book on Sunday, Nov. 12, at 5 p.m.
Come to the Craftsbury Public Library on Saturday, Nov. 11, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., for a literacy fair.
The Holcomb House, home of the Johnson Historical Society’s extensive collection of artifacts and memorabilia will open Sunday, Nov. 12, from 1-3 pm.
A series of upcoming meetings will offer locals the chance to become familiar with and participate in HomeShare Vermont.
It’s almost that time of the year again, from dancing snowmen to dangling jingle bells, those once-fashionable-now-outrageous sweaters will once again make a comeback.
The inaugural Stick Season Showdown will take place Nov. 10-12 at the Stowe Arena.
Here are some of the upcoming programs at Morristown Centennial Library, 7 Richmond St.
The Williston Federated Church, 44 North Williston Road, will hold its annual Christmas bazaar on Saturday, Nov. 18, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Come shop your favorite crafters at the United Church of Colchester’s annual Christmas craft show on Saturday, Nov. 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 900 Main St.
Stowe Community Church women’s fellowship is making Thanksgiving desserts for sale.
Join Stowe High students Saturday, Nov. 11, as they host a free Veterans Day Pancake Breakfast to honor those that have served their country.
Patti Casey and Colin McCaffrey present a benefit concert for Vermont Interfaith Action, on Saturday, Nov. 11, 7-9 p.m., at First Congregational Church of Burlington, 38 South Winooski Avenue.
The Hinesburg Artist Series will perform a mix of choral and band music at Champlain Valley Union High School Sunday, Nov. 19, at 4 p.m.
Stowe Community Church presents a fall musical concert with Jon Gailmor and Taryn Noelle and friends.
St. John Vianney Church in South Burlington is hosting Treasure in Heaven arts and crafts fair on Saturday, Nov. 11, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at its church at 160 Hinesburg Road.
Bryan Memorial Gallery annual “Gems” exhibition featuring small artworks — 8 inches by 10 inches or smaller — is now open through Dec. 23 at its 180 Main St., Jeffersonville.
The South Burlington Public Art Gallery is exhibiting select work by the art teachers from the South Burlington School District through Dec. 30, 180 Market St.
The Current present its 42nd annual Members’ Art Show & Sale featuring the creations of 76 Vermont-based artists.
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Addie Nevitt oversees many things as the head stage manager, but she’s also the co-head of set, the co-head of the run crew, and she lends a hand in costumes and props. In other words, Addie does everything, another student says, so she has a lot going on today.
South Burlington residents Eric Warwick and Patrick Cope play the main characters in Michael McKeever’s “Suite Surrender,” the Girls Nite Out autumn production.
When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long community center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won.
The Hinesburg Community School will present “Matilda The Musical JR.” on Friday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 18, at 2:30 p.m.
The Valley Players will host “Chaos in the Valley” on Saturday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m., at the Valley Players Theater, 4254 Main St., Waitsfield.
The New Stage Players present a night of comedic storytelling at the historic Grange Hall Cultural Center, 317 Howard Avenue, Waterbury Center, Friday to Sunday, Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 17-19.
Throwback Thursday
Members of the Northern Council Junior Ski Team, which won the New Hampshire-Vermont Junior Championship Saturday (March 1964) at Middlebury. Front row, from left, Julie Wolcott, Ben Hunt, Ray Rossi, Sally Flory, Dave Hubbard, Dave Hazlett, Todd Buik, Dave Tuhilski, Barbara Cochran, Cindy Benway and Tim Hunt. Back row, Louise Sparks, Bob Cochran, Ric Burrington, Jim Cuttler and coaches Jim Walker, Bill Benway and Mickey Cochran, and Jim Spencer, Bob Robbins, Ron Biedermann, Ken Biedermann, Marilyn Cochran, Andrea Davis and Linday Cochran.
Apple bobbing at The Cold Hollow Cider Mill’s annual Cider Fest in 1992.
As we await snowfall, a look back to the Summer of 1983, which proves the adage that everything comes back into style, including short shorts!
A young hunter waits for the official weigh-in in Stowe. Regular deer season starts Nov. 11.
Taxidermist Mike Adams works on a project in 1992. Adams, who grew up in Stowe and graduated from Stowe High School in 1961, worked with his family at the Adams Mill in Moscow. Later, after a career in construction, he turned his hobby into Wildstuff Taxidermy. Throughout the years Adams won numerous awards and taught many students the taxidermy trade.
Stowe High School varsity soccer coach Mark May talks about strategy to his weary players during practice at the beginning of the soccer season in 1993.
The Stowe Craft Show, circa 1980s.
In July 1996 Heidi Scheuermann kept time on her double faced watch — and did some weed whacking — on a visit home to Stowe during her three-year stint in the Peace Corps in Poland, where she taught English as a Second Language.
Diehard tennis fans at the old Head Classic, held annually at Topnotch Resort for many years.
Stowe kindergarten students watch a demonstration of the automatic milking machine during a field trip the Pike farm in Stowe at the beginning of the school year in 1992.
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