By Bonnie Kim Donahue  Much of landscape maintenance in summer is devoted to mowing lawns.  Traditional lawns in the Northeast are typically made up of a mix of turfgrasses such as Kentucky bluegrass, perennial rye and fine fescues. Seed mixes often include a mix of species to provide full lawn cover in spite of…

  Wednesday, June 28—CHITTENDEN—Looking for an enjoyable evening to support a worthwhile cause? Catch the legendary Livingston Taylor and Vermont native Tod Pronto in concert on the lawn at the picturesque Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Wednesday, June 28, starting at 7 p.m. All net proceeds will be donated to the Rutland Community Cupboard, BROC…

  In 2022 there were 110,000 drug overdose deaths in the United States.  Two-hundred-forty-three Vermont residents died of an opioid overdose last year alone. Revive Church is now hosting Celebrate Recovery meetings every Sunday from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered 12 Step program modeled after the highly successful 12 Steps of AA…

  Saturday, June 24—CASTLETON—The Castleton Community Center members are hanging out the banner for the 15th annual Castleton town wide yard sale to be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. rain or shine.  With over 40 vendor tables both outdoors and indoors at the community center on 2108 Main Street, shoppers can expect to…

  Saturday, June 24—Danby—An art exhibition and sale on the grounds of the Silas Griffith Memorial Library, 74 South Main St. in Danby, will feature Vermont artist Peter Huntoon and local artists  from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Huntoon will be set up and working on a new painting. Opportunities available to ask questions of…

  June 22-July 9—Weston—The Weston Theatre will present “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” the heartwarming musical that follows the life of America’s most loveable loser, Charlie Brown. Along with his friends from the Peanuts gang, Charlie Brown navigates the ups-and-downs of growing up, playing football, flying a kite, and being friends with the best…

  By Olivia Q. Pintair/VTDigger Vermont youths age 18 and under will have access to free food again this summer through the Summer Food Service Program, a federally funded, state-administered program that began in 1968 and served hundreds of thousands of meals throughout the state last summer. The Vermont Agency of Education, which announced the continuation of…

We skied in a wedge, poles wrapped around our waists with the basket ends looped into the straps. You had to suck your stomach in to make it work, and then the poles would settle onto your hips and your hands would be free to do all the work. And so we slipped the ruts…

One of my college roommates called me up to tell me that he died recently. He’s a bit of a jokester, so I laughed off his initial statement. But then I sensed an air of forlorn seriousness in his voice.  It turns out he wasn’t kidding.  I’ve known “Phil” for 35 years, and if I…

  If you take a walk through a thick, broadleaf forest on a cool summer morning, you might recognize the cascading, metallic song of a thrush called a veery. It is an ethereal sound that echoes through the understory, like the ring of a haunted cell phone. You might even see a veery, with its…

  Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports Volunteer Liz Mead, a resident of Chittenden, was recognized by the Kraft Family, Patriots Foundation and Gillette, along with 25 other volunteers, as a 2023 Myra Kraft Community MVP Award winner on Thursday, June 8.  Twenty-six volunteers were recognized for their contributions at an awards ceremony and luncheon at…

  By Bill McKibben Editor’s note: Bill McKibben is an internationally known climate activist and writer who lives in Ripton. In Vermont, the scent of wood smoke on a late fall afternoon is an iconic smell. It’s not like that here today, in the first week of June — it’s more like sitting on the…

  By Richard Rawson Editor’s note: , Ph.D, is a research professor at the UVM Center for Behavior and Health. He lives in Brandon. He also is a professor emeritus in Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In a June 8 commentary, Jim Tomczak poignantly described the impossible situation he faces in caring…

  Dear Editor, Saturday, June 24, marks one year since the Supreme Court of the U.S. overturned Roe v. Wade in the case titled Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.  With that decision, the court ended the federal constitutional right to abortion after nearly 50 years and allowed states to ban abortion. This was a…

  Dear Editor, I am reaching out because our show is planning to return to Vermont in August 2023! We’re looking for leads throughout the state, specifically interesting characters with fascinating items and lots of them! The way we find people and collections for our show is through spreading the word far and wide so…