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Human & beaver dams: when and how to remove

Human & beaver dams: when and how to remove

As part of the Riverwide Connecticut River Speaker Series, Tyler Brown, wildlife specialist with the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, and Ron Rhodes, director of Restoration Programs with the Connecticut River Conservancy, will give an online presentation at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29. Dams can be spotted across the Upper Connecticut River watershed. Whether […]

GNAT-TV launches cooking show starring You

GNAT-TV launches cooking show starring You

Community members are invited to the GNAT-TV studio in Sunderland to star in a new cooking show titled “GNAT-TV Presents: Potluck Kitchen.” The program is an opportunity for amateur chefs to share their cooking talents and have a little fun in GNAT-TV’s kitchen studio. Participants may share cooking tips and favorite recipes and techniques and […]

Emergency services hold community breakfast in Chester

Emergency services hold community breakfast in Chester

By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Sunday June 5, Chester’s police, fire and ambulance personnel put on the first of four community breakfasts to be held in the new Public Safety Building this summer. More than 50 residents came to enjoy pancakes made by Police Chief Rick Cloud and eggs scrambled by […]

Vermont Apple Festival & Craft Fair seeks craft, food vendors for October event

Vermont Apple Festival & Craft Fair seeks craft, food vendors for October event

Do you handmake 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 to Riverside Middle School, 13 Fairground Road, Springfield from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8. In 2019, 60 vendors filled the […]

Community breakfast at Public Safety Building this Sunday

Community breakfast at Public Safety Building this Sunday

© 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Chester’s Emergency Services Department – Police, Fire and Ambulance – will hold the first of its summer community breakfasts on Sunday, June 5 at the Public Safety Building on Pleasant Street. The community breakfasts are a way for residents to get to know the members of the three organizations, learn […]

Connecticut River Valley Stingrays summer swim team registration open

Connecticut River Valley Stingrays summer swim team registration open

The Edgar May Health and Recreation Center announces that  registration is open for the summer session of the Connecticut River Valley Stingrays youth swim teams. The season will begin on June 13 and continue through Aug. 6. Children between the ages of 6 and 18 years are invited to join the developmental, junior or senior […]

Poor Cousins performs at West River Farmers Market on June 4

Poor Cousins performs at West River Farmers Market on June 4

Come to the West River Farmers Market between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 4 for artisan crafts, fresh organic produce, live music and delicious made-to-order food. The market,  located at the junction of Route 11 and Route 100 in Londonderry, will feature music from The Poor Cousins, an Irish fiddle and guitar […]

Pizza Stone in Chester to host Drag Queen Story Hour on June 4

Pizza Stone in Chester to host Drag Queen Story Hour on June 4

Drag Queen Story Hour will be hosted by the Pizza Stone, 291 Pleasant St. in Chester, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 4. This event is sure to renew a love of reading and community. This event was originally scheduled to be at the Whiting Library. Kids of all ages will enjoy the creative theatrics […]

Ludlow Rotary offers scholarships to area graduating seniors

Ludlow Rotary offers scholarships to area graduating seniors Submission deadline is June 1

The Ludlow Rotary Club is continuing its annual scholarship awards to graduating high school students who reside in Ludlow, Mt. Holly, Plymouth and Cavendish. Three special scholarships have been named for legendary members of the Ludlow Rotary Club. Two of these – the Daniel E. Kesman Rotary Scholarship (academic excellence) and the Ralph D. Hogencamp […]

West River Farmers Market to open 2022 season on May 28

West River Farmers Market to open 2022 season on May 28

The West River Farmers Market will open for its first day of the season over Memorial Day Weekend on Saturday, May 28. Come to the market between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the junction of Route 11 and Route 100 in Londonderry to shop fresh organic produce, eat delicious food made to order and […]

BRSU students return to stage to showcase musical talents

BRSU students return to stage to showcase musical talents

The sound of music returns to the Northshire this spring with a series of concerts at all six schools of the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union. As an added attraction, The Dorset School will offer a theatrical twist with a production of the play The Day the Internet Died onstage at the Southern Vermont Arts Center. “It’s been too […]

Stratton Mountain School gives back in service

Stratton Mountain School gives back in service

STRATTON More than 160 Stratton Mountain School students and staff spent Wednesday, May 4 giving back to local communities through the school’s SMS Gives Back event. During this annual event, SMS alumni, parents and friends are asked to give back by making a gift to the SMS annual fund, while students and staff volunteer service […]

Cavendish Bird Walk set for Sunday May 22

Cavendish Bird Walk set for Sunday May 22 Moderate hike limited to 12 participants

The Cavendish Community and Conservation Association is sponsoring its eighth annual Spring Bird Walk. Walkers will meet at the Proctor-Piper trailhead in Proctorsville at 8 a.m. on Sunday, May 22. Marianne and Michael Walsh of the Mount Ascutney Audubon Bird Association will join Tim Calabrese of the Cavendish Trail Association to lead the birding walk […]

Ludlow Rotary Penny Sale draws a crowd, raises funds for $9,000 in scholarships

Ludlow Rotary Penny Sale draws a crowd, raises funds for $9,000 in scholarships

After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the 64th annual Penny Sale, sponsored by the Ludlow Rotary Club, returned to Ludlow in full force. Thanks to the donation of gifts from more than 100 area businesses and individuals, the Penny Sale was able to give away more than $30,000 in merchandise and cash, plus award some lucky […]

St. Luke's Annual Plant Sale May 27-29

St. Luke’s Annual Plant Sale May 27-29

St. Luke’s Church, 313 Main St., Chester, will hold its annual plant sale May 27 through May 29. Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday. A wide selection of proven, large, healthy and hardy plants are sold at bargain prices. The sale features numerous […]

'Oldest man in Chester' to celebrate 104th on the Green

‘Oldest man in Chester’ to celebrate 104th on the Green

By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC When Bernard Mowrey was born, Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States, the end of World War I was still six months away and the flu pandemic, which would kill tens of millions worldwide, was just getting under way. Next week he’ll celebrate his 104th birthday […]

Whiting Library celebrates National Foster Care Month with special story time

Whiting Library celebrates National Foster Care Month with special story time Q&A session on tap for potential foster parents

Whiting Library, 117 Main St., Chester, will celebrate National Foster Care Month with a special family story hour at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10. This event combines the library’s monthly kid’s book club with learning about foster care, adoption and family differences. Carrie King, Youth Services librarian, will read aloud from books that engage […]

Composting station available for Cavendish residents

Composting station available for Cavendish residents

When the Vermont legislature banned food scraps from the trash and mandated that they must be composted, the Town of Cavendish engaged the services of a company to haul away those scraps each week. That quickly became hugely expensive. For several months, the Cavendish Transfer Station has been composting on site. That saves the carbon […]

Trivia Night set for May 28 to benefit Chester Rotary Ladd Scholarship

Trivia Night set for May 28 to benefit Chester Rotary Ladd Scholarship Grab your teammates and put on your thinking caps

Quiz/Trivia Night will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 28 in the Banquet Room of American Legion Post 67, 634 VT Route 103. You can register as a team or an individual. Team registration — for three to six people is $100; individual registration is $20.  You can also help sponsor […]

Winhall Memorial Library adds a new StoryWalk

Winhall Memorial Library adds a new StoryWalk

Winhall Memorial Library, 2 Lower Taylor Hill Road in Bondville, has installed a new StoryWalk in the park next to the library. A StoryWalk is a fun and educational activity that places a children’s story — literally a book taken apart –along a route. This StoryWalk, which features the picture book Story Boat, will be […]