All Entries in the "Community and Arts Life" Category
A touch of Caesar crowns humble spud salad royally
By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com This crazy weather has me grillin’ one day and baking another. It just so happens that on Friday, May 31, it was in the 90s and wicked humid. So guess what? It was too hot and humid to grill outside and too hot and humid to bake inside. So cold food […]
Bonnie’s Bundles celebrates 45 years; Cavendish calendar contest; Brattleboro music and Putney garden tour
Bonnie’s Bundles Dolls of 250 North St. in the Stone Village in Chester is celebrating 45 years of doll making with a series of events. The first will be held 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 15 and features three activities: wheat pasting images of the most popular dolls as a mural on the […]
TARPS fund-raiser at Pizza Stone; ballet recital; blood drive; cookbook author at Misty Valley; learn about ponds at Nature Museum; Whiting Summer Reading program and host families sought
The Pizza Stone will host a fundraiser for The Animal Rescue and Protection Society Chester’s animal shelter 6:30 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 10. The restaurant, at 291 Pleasant St., will offer a special menu for the evening. Josh and Beth Adams from DV8 will perform their Southern outlaw country rock to entertain diners, and […]
Hey kids! Add these books to your summer reading list
By John Hoover School’s out (or almost), so what are you going to do with all your free time this summer? You could sit inside and play video games – nothing wrong with that – but may we at Misty Valley Books make a suggestion? Find yourself a Good Read, one that you can take […]
Hot or cold, this sweet pepper gazpacho will delight
By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com This cold soup is just as delicious when you omit the ricotta and add 2 cups light or heavy cream and gently warm it over low heat, topped with a few flavored croutons. Gazpacho is traditionally made never touching heat. A variety of vegetables are chopped then processed in a blender […]
Alumni roll into town for weekend of golf, parties, parade and more
By Karen Zuppinger The Chester High School/Green Mountain Union High School Alumni Association kicks of its annual alumni weekend celebration on the morning of Friday June 7 with a golf tournament at Tater Hill Golf Club on Popple Dungeon Road. “This is one of our most popular events,” says association President Karl Lauren. “We often […]
College student film captures childhood with help of local actors
Nine children and one adult from Chester are featured in a new, 23-minute film made by a crew of Keene State College seniors. The film, Childhood, I Love You, was screened Friday evening to a group of actors and their families at Green Mountain Union High. Click on any photo below to launch the gallery. […]
Mini strawberry pies make a great snack
By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com I do realize strawberry season here in Maine is a few months away, but have you seen the price of strawberries from abroad lately? At $1.98 a quart, you bet I am going to take advantage of them. Those in California who believe their strawberries are superior, who am I to […]
Family Center annual dinner; diabetes class; young playwrights read; and VSO in concert
Chester-Andover Family Center will acknowledge and thank its student volunteers at its annual dinner meeting at 5:30 p.m., Monday, June 3, at the Chester American Legion, 637 VT Route 103 S. in Chester. As an all-volunteer organization, the family center counts on these young people for help with many of the daily tasks such as […]
Volunteers ready Grateful Garden for planting
On Saturday, May 18, a number of families came together to clean up the Grateful Garden beds, on the Chester-Andover Elementary School campus, transforming them from weed-infested to ready-to-plant beds. Along the way, says Grateful Garden founder Carrie King, the volunteers met beetles, toads, old potatoes, rocks, worms and favorite perennials like asparagus, lemon balm, […]
A savory and garlicky chicken comes home to roost
By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com Simple. Simple. Simple. Don’t be dismayed at the ingredient list. You should already have the items in stock. And despite the number of ingredients, the preparation is oh so simple. Savory Chinese Garlic Chicken You don’t have to stick with the vegetables listed. Add some sliced water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, cauliflower, […]
Fish Ladder Visitors Center opens; Chester artists open for Studio Weekend; Cavendish grants awarded
The Bellows Falls Fish Ladder Visitor Center will open for the season at 10 a.m. Friday, May 24 next to the Post Office on Bridge Street in Bellows Falls. The center’s regular hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. Long-time environmental educator […]
Chester son screens locally shot short film
Professional photographer Julian Ungano , center below, who grew up in Chester, takes questions from audience members following the local screening of his short film And After All at the Vermont Institute for Contemporary Art on Saturday. Portions of the film were shot last winter in and around Chester using local extras, some of whom were […]
Season’s Greenings
The long winter has finally ended but the weather has been holding us in a limbo of lukewarm days and cold nights — not what most Southern Vermonters are looking for so long after maple sugaring has ended. Still, the signs are here and, on Tuesday, Shawn Cunningham ventured out camera in hand to capture […]
Peanut butter mousse a delight for the kids, a treat for yourself
By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com Peanut butter and fluff! Gotcha! Thought this was going to be our old childhood standby of a sandwich, didn’t you? I’m making peanut butter and fluff desserts this week simply because peanut butter and Fluff are the two items my kids will never say no to. By taking my favorite berry […]
Parenting course begins; Rockingham Library temporarily closed; poetry stars at celestial event; BRAM walk & FOLA series
Free course for parents of older children The Collaborative is offering a free, six-session Positive Parenting course at 7–9 p.m., on consecutive Mondays through June 24 in the SongYard, above the Moondog Café, 295 Main St. The course began on May 13. The next classes will be held on May 27, June 3, June 10, […]
Playhouse expands V-Tix program; Beethoven in Vermont; ‘War Horse’ at Ludlow; toe-tapping music in Proctorsville
The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company announces initiatives to make its popular plays and musicals affordable for all Vermonters and anyone who asks. Single tickets are now on sale for a summer season that includes everything from Broadway musical favorites to exciting new works. The Vermonter Tickets program — V-Tix — which was introduced several years […]
Ailing from spring fever? Feed it with a simple salad side dish
By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com I have a fever. Spring fever that is. Every time the sun pops out and I see the temperature rising a little more each day or I see the flowers struggling to open their chilly petals, I know primavera (translated literally to springtime) will prevail itself in my cooking. What a […]
A fruity couscous for springtime dining
By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com I know, I know! It has been four full months since Christmas, and I still have leftover dried fruit in the cupboard. That’s the beauty of not only dried fruit but of being a Yankee. Not only does dried fruit seemingly last forever, but I will only throw out food if […]
May books usher in rich, colorful and rewarding worlds
By John Hoover For the rest of the world, spring began in the month of March with the arrival of the Vernal Equinox. But in Chester, May is the month when spring finally arrives and we put away our winter coats and gloves and boots. May also is Mother’s Day, getting out in the garden […]
