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Audiences can escape to ‘The Prom’ at Lost Nation Theater through Aug. 4
Local theater fans have an upbeat summer musical comedy to check out at Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier where “The Prom: the Musical” is running Thursdays-Sundays, through Aug. 4. Marking its 35th anniversary, Lost Nation Theater chose the show inspired by real-life events and created by Tony winners...
Kelly Brush Foundation sending two athletes to Paralympic Games in Paris
CHARLOTTE, Vt. — Next month, the Paralympic Games will get underway in Paris, and a foundation based in Charlotte, Vermont, is helping two athletes fulfill their dreams to compete there this year. For nearly two decades, the Kelly Brush Foundation has helped athletes with spinal cord injuries reach their...
From the Colchester-Milton Rotary: Save a life this summer, at Aug. 13 blood drive
Team up with the Rotary Club of Colchester-Milton and the American Red Cross to save a life!. To make an appointment to donate, go to redcrossblood.org and fill in the sponsor code, CMROTARY or use this link:. Hosting a blood drive coincides with Rotary’s core values of giving back to...
Burlington native Ilona Maher featured in Women's Health article
PARIS, IDF — Local Olympian and Team USA Rugby Sevens Center Ilona Maher seems to be everywhere these days – and now the Burlington native is one of the faces ofWomen's Health in their latest issue. Maher is featured in an article with five other Olympians and Paralympians...
“The Forgotten” film premiere in Proctorsville
PROCTORSVILLE, Vt. – A year after the catastrophic floods that devastated Vermont, many are still rebuilding. Residents of Cavendish and Proctorsville are among them. Stefan Beaumont and Wendy E. Reynolds of Red Vault Productions know firsthand what it is like to have to put their lives back together after they lost their home and business in last year’s flooding. As the anniversary approached, they planned to premiere the short film they created during the tumultuous past year.
Connecticut man arrested on drug charges in Burlington, Vermont
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Connecticut man was arrested on drug charges following a police operation in Burlington earlier this week. The Burlington Police Department arrested 37-year-old Christopher Stevens, of Hartford, on Tuesday following an investigation into drug activity at a home on Buell Street. According to police, investigators had...
MHS/MUHS alums seek hall of famers
The Middlebury High School/ Middlebury Union High School Hall of Fame was first started in 1986 with the induction of 12 alumni. A total of 143 alumni and honorary inductees are members of the MHS/MUHS Hall of Fame. We’re glad you’re interested in this valuable content! Please understand that in...
Profiles: Evergreen Preschool helps bring up good kids
VERGENNES — “Working with kids is some of the best therapy around. Their curiosity, innocence, and unconditional love is so heartwarming,” said Ashley Bessette. She should know. A career early childhood educator, Bessette is program director at Evergreen Preschool in Vergennes. She was recently appointed by the three local public school districts as Addison County Universal Pre-K Coordinator, and will leave for that position in August.
Vergennes welcomes new gallery with ‘Soft Openings’
Kristen Grant’s love affair with the arts began early, when she was a child in her Addison home, and it deepened during her years at Vergennes Union High School. We’re glad you’re interested in this valuable content! Please understand that in order for us to be able to fund reporters covering local news, we need your help! For full access to this story and all online content, please log in or subscribe to the Addison Independent.
Summer spells renovations for EWSD buildings
ESSEX WESTFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT — As EWSD students gear up to return back to school this fall, the district has been working on a whole slew of maintenance renovations in their school buildings. EWSD director of facilities and district safety Garry Scott told the Reporter two separate facility assessments...
INTERVIEW: Sarah King on Picking Up The Pieces From Her Cancer Diagnosis
Just when Sarah King though she was at the point she needed to be, well, it all went down. King release her album When it All Goes Down on March 29. Three days later, her doctor confirmed the worst: she had thyroid cancer, with tumors on her lymph nodes and one on the thyroid itself. All of King’s plans for the album came to a screeching halt. The prognosis is good, and King will be giving her final performance before her surgery and recovery at the Grand Point North Festival in Burlington, VT this Saturday the 27th. King spoke with us about how she’s hanging in there, what she’s going to do with her time off, and the considerations we should all take for artists with chronic illness and disabilities.
Sara Holbrook Community Center to close next week
BURLINGTON, Vt. — After nearly 90 years in the community, one of Burlington's oldest child care nonprofits is closing next week. The Sara Holbrook Community Center has provided child care in Burlington since 1937 but now, after the current summer session, the center is shutting its doors. "For several...
Brandon Gray, Kyle MacAskill Claim Times Argus Midseason Championships
Rain Pushes Late Models and Road Warriors to Start Next Thursday’s Program. Barre, VT — The Times Argus Midseason Championships started off without at hitch at Thunder Road on Thursday with rains moving in mid-program to postpone both the Late Model and Road Warrior features to next Thursday’s racing action. Following the qualifying rounds for all four divisions, the rk Miles Street Stocks kicked-off the Times Argus Midseason Championship action. Paige Whittemore and Curtis Franks led the twenty-six-car field to green with Whittemore taking the impressive lead over the pack. Two-by-two the field ran six-car-lengths behind the leaders as traffic reshuffled with the first caution on lap 13 for the infield-spinning Walker Fitch and Derek Farnham.
Community backs fundraising effort to develop treatment for child's rare disorder
COLCHESTER, Vt. — A Colchester family working tirelessly to fundraise for a medical treatment for their child is getting a boost from local businesses. Four-and-a-half-year-old Henry Saladino was born with a very rare genetic condition known as AHC, for alternating hemiplegia of childhood. According to Henry's mom, Mary Saladino, AHC causes seizures, trouble breathing, and episodes of temporary paralysis almost every day.
Middlebury town manager takes a bow
MIDDLEBURY — One of Middlebury Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay’s biggest attributes, recalled former selectboard Chair John Tenny, was being able to “manage the storm, without being caught in the center of it.”. Ramsay will truly put that aphorism to the test during the next chapter of her...
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