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Here are six events coming to the Colchester area soon, including the Champlain Valley Fair
Where: Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction. Details: Inspiring speakers and presentations, 100 recovery and recovery-related booths, break-out rooms on specific recovery topics. Memorial Wall for loved ones lost to substance use passing. Food vendors and free parking. Ask a UVM Extension Master Gardener. When: 10 a.m.-noon most Saturdays until September.
PHOTOS: Getting to know Colchester’s latest solar farm installation on College Parkway
COLCHESTER — On Vermont Route 15 and College Parkway in Colchester, just past the Fort Ethan Allen Cemetery, is a construction crew working to build a 366-module solar panel array. This is the town’s third 150-kilowatt array of solar, and the third of Colchester’s farms installed and maintained by...
Vermont farmers take stock after losing crops to flooding two years in a row
BARNET, Vt. (AP) — Exactly one year to the date of last year’s severe flooding in Vermont, Joe’s Brook Farm was flooded again by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. This time it was worse. Workers were able to harvest some of the produce before last week’s flooding, but the family-owned vegetable farm still lost 90% of its crop in fields and greenhouses.
Review & setlist: Noah Kahan’s New England is forever at Fenway
Vermont native Noah Kahan, whose songs are peppered with local references, easily won over the crowd at Thursday's sold-out show at Fenway Park, the first of two. It’s tough to summarize all of who Noah Kahan is or what he means to New England in this moment, but here’s a shot.
What To Do: Saturday, July 20th
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Let’s take a look at what to do this weekend. This weekend Fort Ticonderoga is holding a two-day battle reenactment of the 1759 Siege of Carillon, which saw the British take control of the fort from the French. Visitors can enjoy demonstrations, boat cruises, and reenactment scenes featuring cannon fire. All events are included in general admission, which ranges from $13 to $29.
Art students bring peace and beauty to CVPH's R5
CHAZY | "I think it's really cool, because I know that I helped contribute and I know it might help people and make people more relaxed." Grace Rocha, a sixth grader at Chazy Elementary School, has a great reason to be proud. She and her fellow classmates in Stephanie Lefand's art class are helping bring peace to families visiting loved ones on our Med/Surg and Oncology inpatient floor, which many of you know as R5. They created two paintings that are now on display in our solarium, where family members and friends of our patients will go for a break while visiting.
Free flood cleanup supplies available in Vermont this weekend
On Friday, eight cars drove up to a Red Cross tent and trailer on Route 2 in Plainfield to pick up cleaning supplies, garbage bags, shovels, and flashlights. Tonja Cochran drove there with a friend. She’s trying to find a place to move — the floods washed away most of her property and she’s worried her home won’t withstand the next rainfall.
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