The Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s next Jukebox is a reunion of sorts, featuring two popular Vermont rock musicians, singer-songwriters Kat Wright and Ryan Miller.
Arthur Zorn is well known as a choral conductor, pianist, choir director, organist an vocal soloist. Few people may know that besides his storied music career, Zorn is an accomplished visual artist.
Arthur Zorn is well known as a choral conductor, pianist, choir director, organist an vocal soloist. Few people may know that besides his storied music career, Zorn is an accomplished visual artist.
For first-time authors, getting a novel or a collection of poetry published can be a daunting task. They must decide whether to seek an agent or not, whether to hire an editor, and whether to use traditional, hybrid or self publishing.
In a February forest, evergreens provide welcome color. But look more closely on the bark of trees, conifers and hardwoods, and you’ll find other bright hues, from sunny yellows to blue-greens. These are lichens, common, but often overlooked members of the winter woods.
On a classic zero-degree Vermont winter day, Val Stori laced up her running shoes and drove to a start line one mile from her home in Underhill to set out on a virtual 5K race. In a normal year, she uses running to explore the world and has set out on long-distance trail-running adventures i…
AROUND TOWN
For the past five years JAGfest, the brainchild of Jarvis Antonio Green, has established itself as a unique Vermont theater company celebrating black lives through original storytelling. This year is no different, except that COVID-19 restrictions have led to a creative way to present them.
Feeling the love?
WILLIAMSTOWN — A veteran educator who has spent his entire professional career employed by the same California school district will be the next superintendent of the Central Vermont Supervisory Union.
If you’re like me, you probably wake up in the morning, make coffee and breakfast, and ready yourself for your day without putting much thought to what’s happening beneath your feet.
The Outside Story Last summer, I regularly passed a stand of towering white pine trees at Camp Plymouth State Park in Ludlow, where I live and work. Most days, I saw at least one hairy woodpecker, a few blue jays, chickadees, a pair of broad-winged hawks and a multitude of red squirrels arou…
Snowmobile sales and trail use across Vermont are strong despite both the pandemic and minimal snowfall in December.
At 12:15 a.m., on Feb. 2, Katy Knuth, of Stannard, discovered her home was on fire.
AROUND TOWN
‘Frozen’ challenge?BARRE — Do you want to build a snowman?
As the three-year effort to rewrite Waterbury’s zoning regulations continues at a snail’s pace, town officials are looking for a way to usher in new development projects in the downtown that don’t meet the outdated rules.
A Waterbury woman’s online auction of a pair of mittens similar to those made famous by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Inauguration Day has raised more than $750 to help fund children’s nature programs.
At a time when school resource officers are coming under fire nationwide, and right here in central Vermont, Jason Fleury is as close to Kevlar as you can get.
A group of volunteers is hoping to return to classrooms this fall to continue reading to students about inclusion and diversity.
To the community:
BARRE — Vermont transportation officials are hoping automated vehicle companies will see the state as a good place to test self-driving cars, given the variety of road conditions and other factors the state has going for it.
In an intimate kickoff to Black History Month, one local man has decided to share his own personal history.
MONTPELIER — The Vermont Supreme Court recently heard arguments in the civil case of a Fayston Elementary School student against the Vermont Board of Education.
What’s happened to Marie Hartung of Monroe, Washington and Damien Middelton, of Plainfield, Vermont over the past year reads like a script for a Hallmark movie: Young couple spends a perfect night together at their winter prom, they date for several months in high school, break up as most hi…
Next weekend, in time for Valentine’s Day, Gabrielle Rosiere and an array of charming and eccentric lovers and would-be lovers come to screens in audience homes in Lost Nation Theater’s production of Beckwith’s play, “Love Letters Made Easy.”
MONTPELIER — City officials acknowledge the district heat system has been a “mixed bag” since it went online in 2014, thanks to lower-than-projected oil prices, but the customers that use it say they are happy with the service.
Stefano Coppola has lived the American dream.
Wheels roll, seedpods burst with color, handcrafted art books beckon, and an intricate thread installation considers “Contact Tracing.” The four exhibitions have opened at Studio Place Arts in Barre offer a beautifully fitting start to this year, each one with much to explore and savor.
In “Raggedy And,” David Valdes Greenwood’s 2016 comedy of manners, the perfect poet is needed for the impending inauguration of America’s first female President. When a trans woman, is selected, her wife hits the roof and her son is torn. Imagining the glare of the media spotlight on her fam…
AROUND THE STATE
Winter recreation is popular in Waterbury but a recent search for something beyond the ever-popular skiing, ice skating and sledding led to Little River State Park to see a niche sport that’s centuries old. This is the sport of dog sledding, otherwise known as mushing.
Mitten madness?
EAST MONTPELIER — The Washington Central School Board is investing in a blueprint to improve student achievement in a pre-K-12 system that is anchored by U-32 Middle and High School.
On frigid winter evenings, the hooting of a barred owl (Strix varia) serves as a reminder the darkened forests of the Northeast are still very much alive with activity. Their nocturnal calling emanates from favorite forest haunts, including along lakeshores, swamps and rivers. But the sound …
COLCHESTER — The Vermont National Guard has announced that women can now be directly recruited into the Cavalry Squadron.
Montpelier’s favorite resident country musician and singer-songwriter Mark LeGrand recently released a 17-track, nearly one hour of music, CD titled: “A Twenty Year Retrospective 1997-2017.”
John Fusco is the 2020 recipient of Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, which recognizes Vermont artists who have had a profound impact on their field. Since the Vermont Arts Awards couldn’t be presented in person this year the five recipients appear in brief videos.
Perhaps you haven’t had time to read lately… things have been a little wild over the last year. Perhaps the wildness of 2020 is enough to keep you going, and you don’t particularly need or want more suspense, drama, mystery, or tragedy in book form. Or, perhaps you just aren’t much of a read…
President Leahy?
I am once again starting my article by telling you a personal story. If we aren’t careful, 2021 will reveal more about my life than you ever wanted to know! So I got up to pee in the middle of the night a few weeks ago. I’m shuffling along, only 10% awake, in my bare feet, and WHAM! I step i…
BIRTHS
The Valley Players will present “A Life Altering Event” by Jeanne Beckwith, the fourth online staged reading in their Theater in Your Home series, at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday Jan. 21-23 via the meeting platform Zoom.
Roxbury playwright Jeanne Beckwith has been a Vermont playwright for nearly two decades. “I’ll be honest,” she said. “I’ve been a playwright in Indiana, I’ve been a playwright in Georgia, I’ve been a playwright in Alabama, and I’ve been more productive since I got to Vermont than I was through any of the other years."
Roxbury playwright Jeanne Beckwith has been a Vermont playwright for nearly two decades. “I’ll be honest,” she said. “I’ve been a playwright in Indiana, I’ve been a playwright in Georgia, I’ve been a playwright in Alabama, and I’ve been more productive since I got to Vermont than I was through any of the other years."
Drive down Center Road in Greensboro and it’s clear that things are happening at the Highland Center for the Arts. Brilliant festival flags fly in an exuberant row, expansive Bread and Puppet prints adorn one side of the building, red circle segments move in the breeze in a Judith Wrend kine…
To the people who know her well, the fact that Ginny Sassaman’s first published book is about happiness probably isn’t a surprise. Sassaman, of Calais, co-founder of Gross National Happiness USA, has spent most of her life tying to figure out what makes people happy. Her new book, “Preaching…
BIRTHS
Three of Vermont’s professional theater companies have programs for developing new plays, including Weston Playhouse Theatre Company and Dorset Theatre Festival, but only Northern Stage has regularly taken works from birth to New York, with all the steps in between.
“Amanecer,” a seven-song album released by Burlington-area singer-songwriter Marcie Hernandez in late November, is a stunning debut by a seriously promising artist that delivers a captivating blend of Latin rhythms and instrumentation with spellbinding indie folk sensibilities.
