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The Champlain Valley Fair starts Friday. Here's the schedule of events.
ESSEX JUNCTION — Vermont’s largest annual event, the Champlain Valley Fair, opens its gates for the 102nd time this Friday, Aug. 23 and attracts 120,000 fairgoers over ten fun filled days. Guests can fill their days at the fair learning about Vermont agriculture, enjoying amazing foods from over...
Shelburne farm hosts fundraiser to help Latin America farmers
Food4Farmers, a Vermont-based nonprofit, wants to relieve Latin American food insecurity with gourmet burgers, hotdogs and salads. The third annual Food4Farmers Harvest Picnic is returning to Shelburne’s Bread and Butter Farm on Aug. 28 at 5 p.m. The dinner, prepared by Blank Page Café owner Mike Proia and his team, is a fundraiser for small-scale, rural farmers producing coffee consumed, in part, by Vermonters.
Montpelier Housing Panel Focuses on Incentivizing Development
At its Aug. 6 meeting, the Montpelier Housing Committee hosted a panel in which public officials working on housing issues across Barre City, Winooski, and South Burlington shared ideas and insights — with some speculation about strategies that could be useful in Montpelier. The panelists included Barre City’s Homelessness...
Roxbury students prepare to start school in Montpelier
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - After a contested community debate, the Montpelier Roxbury Public Schools Board voted in March to close the Roxbury Village School. In just a few days, its tiny group of students will board the bus to something bigger. Both of Hannah Zajac’s children have spent their childhoods...
New funding to support Lake Memphremagog conservation
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Work is underway in the Memphremagog watershed with a focus on conservation. The Vermont Housing and Conservation Board has awarded almost $900,000 in the first round of the Memphremagog Clean Water Program. Seven organizations received funding for a total of 12 projects to improve aquatic habitat.
A new circus comes to town
GREENSBORO — Friday evening a new circus came to the Highland Center for the Arts here. We’ve had Bread and Puppet in Glover for some 50 years, the Robert’s traveling tent circus decades ago in Hardwick, Circus Smirkus in Greensboro since 1987, and now the Honey Let’s Go Home Circus has given its first performance.
Barton Celebrated all week long
BARTON – Merriness was in the air during Barton Celebrates, a weeklong mini-festival that showcased the history and resilience of the village. Families and people of all ages came together to enjoy food, music, and good times, learn more about Barton, and have fun. “There’s something about this place...
World Soccer Festival — A Rousing Opening at MHS
The Aug. 17 World Soccer Festival at Montpelier High School opened with a parade, with players of all ages marching to a rhythmic band of drummers. The band provided a bass line to the considerable action of the adult exhibition game between Capital Soccer and the Zen Barn, which featured players from a dozen countries around the globe. Capital Soccer ultimately prevailed 7–5. — The kids, dressed in jerseys representing international teams, soon launched into a playdown series of 3v3 games refereed by soccer players from Johnson State College. They and their parents also enjoyed face painting, grilled sandwiches, and Northeast Kingdom Ice Cream, while younger siblings chased each other, and often their parents, around the fields kicking soccer balls.
Wood in Plainfield’s Great Brook May Be Both Friend and Foe
During the July 10 flood, Jenni Belotserkovsky watched as Plainfield’s Mill Street Bridge became blocked by debris. Great Brook’s raging waters built up behind the bridge until the structure was swept away, one of many the village lost that day. “We heard boulders and trees crash into the...
Greensboro residents say their piece
GREENSBORO — Monday evening Moderator Tim Nesbit asked the more than 100 people gathered in the Greensboro United Church’s Fellowship Hall to be civil in discussing plans to put 20 affordable housing units in the town’s old high school building. By and large his request was honored by those who spoke, but an edge of anger threatened to come to the surface more than once during the two-hour meeting.
The fastest-growing college expense may not be what people think
In his first year in graduate school at the University of Vermont, John Ball lived in a dark studio apartment in the basement of a building three miles from the campus. With utilities, it cost him $1,500 a month — more than the national median rent. “I just needed...
'Target on our back': Favored Vermont men's soccer chases big goals in 2024
For the second straight offseason, the Vermont men's soccer team saw more than 10 players depart the program due to graduation or transfer. But expectations haven't changed for the Catamounts — not in the slightest. With the likes of forwards Yaniv Bazini and Max Murray, midfielder Adrian Schulze Solano and defenders Zach Barrett and Nick Lockermann among the 16 returnees, Vermont is up front about its goals for the 2024 season: America East Conference regular-season and tournament...
Encampment Dwellers Refuse to Relocate
That was the predominant question during Montpelier’s Aug. 14 City Council meeting concerning a tent encampment created by about a dozen unhoused people that has been increasing in size since the former Elks Club shelter closed May 29. City officials said they are asking, not forcing, those people to move out following some disturbing incidents. However, at least one of those at the camp says he isn’t going anywhere.
Harwood Co-Principal Greenberg to step down in October
In a letter sent to Harwood Union Middle/High School families this week, Co-Principal Laurie Greenberg announced that she will be stepping down from her position with her final day being Thursday, October 10. Under the subject line “My Next Steps,” Greenberg explained how her family has relocated to Utah and...
New Pipes Under School Street Might Be In by Start of School
Blame the July flood for the two-week delay in a major project on Montpelier’s School Street, which, had it started on time, would have easily been completed before the first day of school on Aug. 28. But recently, the city’s plan to replace the water main on the same block as Union Elementary School has also significantly expanded after the city council approved using federal funds to upgrade the entire street.
Capital City Concerts Opens 25th Anniversary Season
Founded in 2000 by flutist Karen Kevra, Capital City Concerts (CCC) opens its 25th season in September with concerts running through May of 2025. In 2000, with the help of enthusiastic community members and guidance from her mentor the late Louis Moyse, Karen Kevra founded Capital City Concerts, a classical chamber music series based in Montpelier.
Pet of the Week: Unicorn
Unicorn seeks a comfy home with rooms to explore and a human to cuddle with on those colder nights. Previously, Unicorn was an indoor-only cat and was surrendered because of her owner’s health and not being able to care for her anymore. Every day, Unicorn comes out of her shell more and seeks attention from staff and volunteers. She is currently in a colony room with a feline friend and seems unfazed by the companionship of the other cats. Unicorn has never been exposed to dogs or children.
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