We all know that the actual band The Rolling Stones would never land their show in Barre, but we’re getting the next best thing, when the Celebration Series presents Classic Stones Live at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23 at the Barre Opera House.
Capital City Concerts is returning after an 18-month-long pandemic hiatus due to COVID-19. In addition to the Borromeo Quartet, the series will present the Solaris Vocal Ensemble April 8 at the Waterbury Congregational Church, and “The Music of J.S. Bach” May 21 at Bethany Church.
Nationwide supply line problems are leading some store managers to look closer to home for items to sell, forming new relationships that may outlast the current situation and leave Vermont better suited to handle the next crisis, be it a flood or pandemic.
Electric vehicle sales in Vermont are increasing in sales but only when models are available from local dealerships. In recent months, a shortage of computer chips used in all new vehicles has led to a slowdown of deliveries of cars and trucks at many car dealerships nationally and Vermont i…
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When Brandon’s Barn Opera House “officially” opens next weekend, it will be with one of the most beloved gems of the repertoire, Giuseppe Verdi’s “La traviata.” And the audience will be invited to share in the festivities — even on stage.
All warmed upCOVID may have slowed things down for Wheels for Warmth, but the popular annual event is back on track.
It’s fall, and we’re falling in love with Montpelier all over again. As I write, I’m looking out on a sunny warm autumn day and can’t help but wonder at the foliage and the beauty all around us. I’m also giddy about what’s to come: some of my favorite holidays, one of the prettiest times of …
Writing a novel is hard work. Hundreds of hours are spend staring at a computer screen trying to write the next sentence and the next chapter, determining the point of view and the most effective tense to use, crafting the plot and more. And when the last period is typed and the novel is com…
If you’re like many Vermonters — that is, a little over third of them — then you probably have some type of wood heating appliance in your home, even if it’s a woodstove that you use only some of the time. Or you might even be one of the 15% of homes in the state that use wood as your primar…
When Alison Bruce Cerutti performs the world premiere of Erik Nielsen’s “The Calling” in her solo recital, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, at the newly renovated Barre Opera House, her first public appearance since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it will represent her longtime collaborati…
They’re performing in a new play presented by the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance (VSCA) about the history of women’s suffrage, “The Suffragist Reenactment Society,” directed by Laura Roald, that will tour the state Oct. 2-30, including West Rutland (Oct. 9) and Montpelier (Oct. 30).
Sales of e-bikes (electric powered bikes) in Vermont are on the rise primarily because of a growing interest in outdoor exercise attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and the increase in senior bike riders moving from conventionally powered bikes to power-assisted bikes.
Next weekend Little Sure Shot will be at Montpelier’s Lost Nation Theater with Maura O’Brien performing a staged reading of “Annie Oakley,” a new play in progress by Roxbury playwright Jeanne Beckwith.
Last week, we looked at the vibrant live music options happening this month. This week, we cast our gaze at a slew of October happenings that are bright spots on the horizon.
For VELCO, keeping Vermont’s electrical grid safe and bolstering the state’s aging workforce go hand in hand.
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The reopening of the newly renovated Barre Opera House will be celebrated with the return to Vermont of a singularly respected entertainer, folksinger Tom Rush, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25.
A granite fireplace stands in the center of Studio Place Arts’ Main Floor Gallery, flame red glowing amid the logs — granite logs. A kneeling granite garden angel, a smile playing on its lips, exudes kindness. A tabletop of petrified wood, with growth rings from millennia ago still clear, si…
NORTHFIELD — It was an overcast day, but if those who know Norwich University’s 24th president are to be believed, the future is bright for the private military school.
For nearly half a century Tom Stuwe was called out of his home and bed at all hours and in all kinds of nasty weather. When he got where he was called, he was constantly and consistently splattered with manure, streaked with blood and flecked with gore. He was routinely stomped on, bitten an…
The Department of Public Safety announced this week that Mourning Fox, who had been deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Mental Health, has been hired as the first director of mental health programs for the department that oversees Vermont State Police and Vermont Emergency Management.
I should have known Kiki wouldn’t stay in her little hatch in the rear deck of the kayak, even though I’d thoughtfully padded it with a big fluffy towel. As soon as we left the dock, I could feel her thrashing around back there and then, out of the hatch, standing on the deck behind me, lean…
One recent day did not go as planned, but after starting with sadness, tension and adrenaline, it came to an end with an incredible feeling of happiness.
It was the third week of September 1928 when Northfield’s oldest resident, Joseph C. Rice, was honored as a special guest at Northfield’s Dog River Valley Fair. Mr. Rice, who at age 97, according to the Rutland Daily Herald, still enjoyed excellent health and was “about the village streets e…
The Legislature’s Social Equity Caucus is calling for an “honest and complete” teaching of United States history in Vermont K-12 schools.
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The feeling of sharp edges, cold steel and industry emanates from Gloria King Merritt’s triptych digital painting “Changing Gears,” a piece inspired by a vintage model used by a gear salesman. The model is also on display. “20/20 Hindsight: Seeing the Past Anew with Contemporary Art” opens this weekend at Kents Corner State Historic Site in Calais.
Lost Nation Theater is returning, not to its home stage at Montpelier City Hall yet, but to the steps of the Vermont State House, where, last year, it presented a staged reading of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” With the popular success of that performance, the Montpelier…
After a two-year hiatus the Vermont Book Award is back and bigger than ever.
New Music on The Point and Scrag Mountain Music are joining forces to create “A Murmur in the Trees,” an immersive concert experience performed in nature.
Although it’s not an election year, local voters may be asked to go to the polls this November to consider what would be the largest bond issue for school construction in the history of the Harwood Union School District.
Do you grow hostas? Even if you don’t know them by name, you’ll likely recognize their neat, rounded form in the garden. Hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3-8, they’re popular as a reliable, easy maintenance choice.
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What did you do during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown? Patrons attending folksinger Tom Rush’s Sept 25 concert, reopening the Barre Opera House after a yearlong hiatus, are in for an eyeful.
The grackle appeared early last spring, the day before I put the feeder away (so as not to tempt the bears who would soon be awakening from their winter dens). In the dim light of a cloudy day, this avian visitor seemed at first to be just another blackbird, on the larger side, perhaps, and …
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The New World Festival, the annual Labor Day Sunday music extravaganza in Randolph that has become a staple of the Vermont music festival scene, returns this year with its 29th edition.
The album “Hashkiveinu” highlights the growing trend to recast traditional Jewish liturgical music in a more modern musical format, accessible to older and younger Jews.
NORTHFIELD — Norwich University women’s soccer head coach Heather Faasse announced the addition of Lynn Sobczyk as an assistant coach on her staff.
Northern Stage’s Courtyard Theater could easily have been mistaken for a rock concert Saturday evening. The sounds brought back memories of the golden age of rock ’n’ roll — and some of the voices, as well as their songs were awfully familiar.
This long detailed sketch and oil pastel, by late Vermont artist Bill Brauer in 1975, is one image he was considering for painting in the Flemish style for a harpsichord lid — a replica of an 18th-century harpsichord that was being built at the Tourin Musica in Duxbury at the time.
On a cool August morning — slowly lifting fog, light offshore breeze, more bearable than it’d been for several days — the crew and I showed up at the town landing in Kittery Point. The harbor, a working and recreational anchorage, was studded with a mix of fishing boats, yachts and day-sailo…
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The annual folk music concert returns to the Old West Church in Calais at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 22. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Voices” and features singer, composer, and song-collector Moira Smiley.
Nearly 80 years ago, on June 14, 1942, in Nazi occupied Netherlands, Anne Frank wrote her first entry in the red-and-white-checkered diary that her father had given her for her 13th birthday, two days before. One month later, just after Anne’s sister Margot was summoned to a Nazi work camp, …
OFF THE LEASH You may have noticed recently that your favorite restaurant is closed some new random nights or that you can’t get an appointment with your veterinarian immediately. We can blame covid for some of the workplace crunches, but there are other factors. The face of veterinary medic…
BERLIN — The Conservation Commission hasn’t held a warned meeting since mid-June, but that hasn’t stopped the panel from firing off letters — one in July and two in August — complaining about “unapproved” work on a snowmobile trail that will run up Irish Hill and through the town forest this…
