Green Up Vermont’s mission is to keep environmental stewardship exciting and rewarding for all and to pass this knowledge to the next generation of Jedi litter-clean-up volunteers. This year’s theme is teamwork.
Nominations are open for the annual 4393 Awards, a reader survey sponsored by the Stowe Reporter and News & Citizen to honor the best in our area. This nomination period is your chance to write in names, so if you (or your favorite business) want to be on the list of finalists, spread the word. Nominations are open through April 25.
Lamoille County Players holds auditions for Roald Dahl’s “Matilda the Musical,” directed by Kenneth Greiner and Patricia Jacob on Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, at Lamoille Union High School Auditorium.
The Eagles Club tag and bake sale is Saturday, April 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the club, 646 Vermont Route 109, in Jeffersonville.
The Peoples Academy Wild Wolves won the 2024 Middle School Bridge Building Competition hosted in late March by Vermont State University-Randolph.
Barry Stone of South Burlington is the 2024 David Hakins inductee to the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame, given to an individual or group for exceptional promotion of sports, athletics and recreation in the Green Mountain State.
It’s time to emerge from winter hibernation for a fully supported gravel grinder covering (almost) all the dirt road in Central Vermont has to offer. It’s not easy but it’s worth it.
Vermont Studio Center celebrates National Poetry Month and its 40th anniversary with a special night of poetry featuring three Vermont poets on Friday, April 19, at 8 p.m.
Vermont’s Trophy Trout stocking program for 2024 includes nine river sections and 37 lakes and ponds receiving the 2-year-old trout, some over 18 inches long.
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Slow down for frogs and salamanders.
On a recent evening, an eclectic mix of people, bearing instrument cases of all shapes and sizes, could be seen entering Dibden Performing Arts Center and making their way up to the stage. These were the dedicated members of the Vermont State University-Johnson Concert Band, braving the cold, snowy weather to attend their weekly rehearsal.
When Richard Gagne, then 27, joined an informal committee four decades ago to discuss expanding volunteer opportunities to assist people in prison in Vermont, his rookie career path already indicated a strong interest in helping people.
Billy R. Hunter Jr., the principal trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, will perform the Trumpet Concerto by Richard Stöhr for the Vermont Philharmonic’s “Trumpeting Spring” program.
Craftsbury Public Library is launching a monthly Saturday story time on the first weekend of each month through the spring and summer.
With more than five feet of snow in the month of March, and more than 250 inches throughout the season, Stowe Mountain Resort has extended its season a week to Sunday, April 21.
Throwback Thursday
On Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, viewers across North America (and beyond) were treated to a rare sight — a solar eclipse. While Vermont wasn’t in the path of totality, many people stepped outside around 2:40 p.m. — maximum eclipse time, from the Green Mountain vantage point — to gaze into the heavens, with the help of special viewing glasses.
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