All Entries in the "Community and Arts Life" Category
Music in the Meadow returns on Sept. 10
The 18th Music in the Meadow fundraising concert to benefit the Susan G. Komen will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Motel in the Meadow, 936 Route 11 West in Chester. Bring a blanket or your lawn chair or join us under the tents. This year’s entertainment is […]
Composting workshop in Cavendish on Sept. 15
The Southern Windsor/Windham Counties Solid Waste Management District, in conjunction with the Cavendish Energy Committee and the Town of Cavendish, will host a workshop about composting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15 in the Cavendish Town Office, 37 High St. Masks will be required for all. State regulations on safety will be adhered to. Vermont state law has […]
Henry Homeyer: Preserving your harvest
By Henry Homeyer © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Now is the time when gardeners often have too much fresh produce. People joke about locking their cars to keep neighbors from placing unneeded zucchinis in them. Our mothers and grandmothers labored over hot stoves on hot days to put up tomatoes in jars for winter, or […]
Guide to the 2022 Chester Festival on the Green
© 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC The 47th Chester Festival on the Green remains a weekend filled with music, great arts and crafts, good food and friends set in the charming Vermont town of Chester. This year’s event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17 and Sunday, Sept. 18 on […]
Bidi Dworkin Jazz Trio to perform on Sept. 3
Wilder Memorial Library, 24 Lawrence Hill Road, Weston, will host the Bidi Dworkin Jazz Trio concert from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 3. All ages are welcome at this free outdoor concert. Attendees are encouraged to bring picnic blankets or chairs for seating on the grass. The Bidi Dworkin Jazz Trio is composed of Bidi Dworkin, […]
Chester Townscape’s Annual Bulb Sale underway
Chester Townscape volunteers will be selling spring-flowering bulbs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17 and Sunday, Sept. 18 at Chester’s Fall Festival. They can be found in the area between the Hearse House and the Information Booth, across from the Town Green. All bulbs are top quality, hardy, easy care, shunned by […]
Henry Homeyer: Time to find a place for the ferns
By Henry Homeyer © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Many gardeners who focus on flowers and flowering shrubs are missing out on a beautiful and easy addition to their landscape: ferns. A few ferns are a bit aggressive and can elbow their way into flower beds uninvited, but most are polite and offer different textures and […]
Weston’s nostalgic ‘Steel Magnolias:’ a slow start, a rousing finish
By Bob Behr ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC As if a time capsule had plopped down on Weston’s Village Green — suddenly, it’s the 1980s in Louisiana and we’re in a small-town beauty salon, complete with a wallphone, boombox, Mr. Coffee, helmet hairdryers, and lots and lots of hairspray. Contemporary audiences might need to work hard […]
Ludlow Rotary Duck Race raises funds for Reinbow Riding Center
On Saturday, Aug. 20, members of the Ludlow Rotary Club gathered on the Depot Street Bridge in the Black River and under Walker Bridge as more than 800 rubber ducks were dropped into the river for the 23rd annual Ralph D. Hogancamp Memorial Duck Race. Members of the Rotary Club who stood in the river […]
Expeditionary School holds social fund-raiser Wine-tasting, silent auction set for Sept. 17
The Expeditionary School at Black River will hold its Third Annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17. The event will take place at The Roundhouse at Jackson Gore, 111 Jackson Gore Road, in Ludlow. The evening will also include hors d’oeuvres and music by local duo The Bluegrasoles. For the […]
Vermont Apple Festival seeks craft, food vendors
Do you make a special craft or delicious food that you’d like to share with the community? The Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 38th Vermont Apple Festival and Craft Show returns after a two-year hiatus to Riverside Middle School, 13 Fairground Road in Springfield from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8. In […]
Henry Homeyer: Are biennials worth the effort?
By Henry Homeyer © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Biennials are some of the least planted flowers we can grow. Why? The year they are planted by seed, they generally do not flower. They only have a clump of low-growing leaves. The second year, the send up a flower spike, bloom, and then die. That’s right. […]
Flute-harp duo closes out Weston concert series
The Sundays on the Hill Concert Series wraps up with a talented flute and harp duo at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 28 at the Weston Community Church, 37 Lawrence Hill Road. Vermont Symphony Orchestra flutist Anne Janson, who teaches at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College, and Rebecca Kauffman, a Burlington-based musician who is […]
Hitchcock’s ‘The Lodger’ highlights FOLA’s annual Silent Movie Festival
Alfred Hitchcock began filming his mysteries during the heyday of the silent movie era. His greatest silent movie thriller, The Lodger, will be the featured film at Friends of Ludlow Auditorium’s annual Silent Movie Festival. The curtain rises at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20 at Ludlow Town Hall’s Heald Auditorium, 37 South Depot St. […]
Ludlow Rotarians ready ducks for annual race on Black River
In keeping with tradition, and the need for our fine feathered friends to exercise, the Ludlow Rotary Club will sponsor the 23rd running of the duck race on the Black River at noon on Saturday, Aug. 20. The ducks will be dropped from the Depot Street bridge. The first three to reach Walker Bridge will win […]
Henry Homeyer: A few arborous musings
By Henry Homeyer © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC First, August is not the best time for planting trees. Most experts suggest spring or fall when it is cooler and rain more regular. But let’s face it, I’m a gardener, and if I see a nice tree for sale, especially one in bloom or one I’ve […]
Better Days Band closes out Chester Summer Music Series
The Chester Summer Music Series wraps up with The Better Days Band at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 11 on the lawn of the Academy Building, across from the Green in Chester. The Better Days Band plays classic rock and R&B hits, sprinkled with many rare B-side gems from “back in the day.” Their unique arrangements mix […]
Neighborhood Connections fund-raiser features Wunderle’s Big Top Adventures
Neighborhood Connections is bringing Wunderle’s Big Top Adventures to Flood Brook School, 91 VT Route 11, Londonderry, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11. Proceeds will benefit the social services agency. With interactive circus fun and entertainment for the entire family, the Mountain Town Circus includes two circus shows, circus workshops and face painting. In […]
Vermont Public launches Made Here Fund Inititative to 'pass the mic' to Vermont storytellers
Vermont Public — the new name for the joint radio and television system — has launched the Made Here Fund, an initiative to broaden and diversify Vermont storytelling and support content creators. Storytellers from across the state are invited to apply for special funding for a wide range of projects and formats, including documentary storytelling, […]
International String Trio returns to Weston on Aug. 14
The Sundays on the Hill Concert Series welcomes back The International String Trio on Aug. 14. All concerts are held at 4 p.m. in the Weston Community Church, 37 Lawrence Hill Road. The International String Trio was founded in 1999 by its musical director and guitarist, Slava Tolstoy. Over the last 10 years the group […]
