All Entries in the "Community and Arts Life" Category
Whiting Library seeks your input in online survey Opinions for improvement sought from Chester, Andover
The Whiting Library wants to hear from all Chester and Andover residents. Whether you use the library every day or just heard of the library now, your voice counts. You may have already received a copy of the survey in the mail. Please fill it out and return it to the library. Alternatively, you can […]
Left in Andover: After my father’s death, Mom became Young@Heart
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC My mother became a widow at age 69. It has taken my reaching that same age to appreciate the energy and creativity she then summoned, making her the last chapter in her life one of her best. By the time my father died in 1988, he had been […]
Chester Chatter: TV continues to fascinate
By Ruthie Douglas ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC I was 15 years old when my family finally got a television set. My sister and I hurried home from school so that we could watch The Mickey Mouse Club. We watched the show almost every day. While my mother was getting supper ready, my father watched the […]
Henry Homeyer: crafting your ‘no work’ garden
By Henry Homeyer ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC I saw a friend recently who was bubbly and excited about her garden. “It’s full of color and stays that way all summer,” she exclaimed. “It is NO work! All I have to do is water it daily, and give it a little fertilizer every few weeks.” She […]
Hospitality workers vaxx clinic in Ludlow; Heritage Deli event; Grace Cottage bike fund-raiser
June 9 vaxx clinic set in for Ludlow A Vaccination Clinic for Okemo Valley hospitality employees is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday June 9 in the parking lot of the Okemo Marketplace Plaza, 57 Pond St. in Ludlow. No appointment is needed, as this is a walk-in clinic. The vaccine is […]
Wednesdays on Wheels kicks off new season; Derry Arts & Historical Society gets $9,000 grant
Wednesdays on Wheels has resumed weekly cycling meet-ups for its 2021 season. WOW rides will take place every Wednesday through early fall. If you are interested in cycling with a group of collegial and energetic cyclists, email David Nichols at davidanichols@myfairpoint.net to receive weekly notifications and route information. WOW is a great way to meet […]
Left in Andover: The wonders of the cookstove and the very hungry granddaughter
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC On a sizzling hot day last week, I was still able to enjoy a fire in the wood cookstove first thing in the morning. My husband staged the fire box for me the night before. His homemade bomb of birch bark, twigs and paper towel impregnated with used […]
Chester Chatter: Every cemetery tells a story
By Ruthie Douglas ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Chester has seven cemeteries. For many years, Ken Barrett was the cemetery sexton for those cemeteries, taking quite good care of them. Chester’s cemeteries are very well kept, which is not true of other towns. Years ago, Ken gave me a tour of the graveyards in his pickup […]
Henry Homeyer: The Art of Weeding
By Henry Homeyer ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC When you face a flower bed and can’t immediately tell what’s a weed and what’s a flower, you have a situation my wife, Cindy Heath, calls Code Red. It happens to the best of us at times, myself included. So what does a gardener do? My wife likes […]
Music to fill summer air in Proctorsville, Weston
Free concerts throughout summer in Proctorsville Now that outdoor gatherings are permitted, the Town of Cavendish will present the annual summer music series on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. beginning July 7 on the Svec Memorial Green in Proctorsville. The town continues to encourage wearing masks and physical distancing. The Green is large and the bands […]
Weston Playhouse awarded $15,000 NEA grant
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company has been approved for a $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support its 2021 New Works Program. “As the country and the arts sector begin to imagine returning to a post-pandemic world, the National Endowment for the Arts is proud to announce funding that will help arts organizations such as […]
Green Mountain Gardeners are all (green) thumbs for spring cleaning
The Green Mountain Gardeners held its annual Clean-Up Day on Wednesday, May 12, with members raking and digging into the leaves to uncover perennial flowers and bedding plants ready to blossom and thrive. This year, the group gathered at the Farrar-Masur House in Weston and, in Londonderry, the Post Office, the Rescue Squad and the […]
Community Cares holds fund-raiser; Asian American Pacific Islander Month celebrated; local foster care families sought
Community Cares Network hosts fund-raiser Community Cares Network of Chester/Andover Inc. is taking orders for a take-out fundraising meal. Orders must be placed no later than Friday, May 28. Pick-up will be Friday, June 4, from 3:30-6 p.m. at the Andover Town Hall. Please call 802-875-6341 to place your order. Cost is by donation. The […]
Left in Andover: A recipe for meatless living
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC When I was growing up, my family kept barrels of whole wheat berries and soybeans for ourselves and kibble for our dog in the “honey room,” a sort of shed attached to the house at Popplewood Farm. The wheat and beans were sourced from a local feed store. […]
Chester Chatter: From flag kids to money cakes
By Ruthie Douglas ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC For some time when my daughters were young, I became enamored with Women’s Day magazine. It was full of good ideas and advice. During the summer of 1976, for the U.S. Bicentennial, it suggested buying back-to-school clothes for our in children red, white and blue and mixing and […]
Henry Homeyer: Fun with grandkids will grow life-long gardeners
By Henry Homeyer ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Okay all you parents and grandparents, it’s time to garden with your beloved little ones. That’s right, start them young, make it fun and they will garden forever. The key part is fun. Never make a child pull weeds. Digging in the dirt is fun. Playing with a […]
Community Preschool kids cultivate good will with ‘kindness rocks’
The Chester Community Preschool recently received a $500 grant from the Kindness Rocks Project, giving children a chance to paint rocks and have them inscribed with upbeat and inspirational sayings. The project centers around social and emotional learning and also includes workbooks and posters about kindness. Under their teachers’ guidance, the pupils on Tuesday placed […]
Left in Andover: Tofu and the love of lasagna
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC In 1970, my fellow communards and I subsisted for weeks at a time on homemade tortillas, beans and pokeweed in our remote eastern Kentucky “holler.” It was cause for rejoicing when Phyllis and Vernon Cannon, parents of Jerry, the legal owner of our commune’s land, arrived for the […]
Chester Chatter: Giving them a ghost of a chance
By Ruthie Douglas ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Year’s ago, on a warm summer day while I was working at Raspberries and Tyme restaurant, a woman and her son came in for lunch. A waitress invited the pair to sit down as they finished setting up. After a while, the woman asked one of the waitresses […]
Henry Homeyer: planning for spring blooming
By Henry Homeyer ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Spring puts a spring in my step, quite literally. I bounce out of the house in the morning to see what is blooming, and since early March I have never been disappointed. You know the regular cast of characters in early spring: first snowdrops with their tiny white […]
