Submitted Beth Kennett receives assistance from a young, eager helper during a baking session. Sunday, March 29 at 3 p.m. — ROCHESTER — Local culinary legend and chef Beth Kennett from Liberty Hill Farm will join the Rochester Public Library for a discussion on Sunday, March 29 at 3 p.m. Kennett will blend together a story of…

Courtesy of Killington Yoga Former professional snowboarder Kevin Pearce, center, leads a class for the LoveYourBrain Foundation which he co-founded with his brother Adam. Sunday, March 29 at 5 p.m. — KILLINGTON — March is Brain Injury Awareness month and on the last Sunday, March 29, Killington Yoga and the LoveYourBrain Foundation are offering a donation based…

Saturday, March 28 at 6:30 p.m. — RUTLAND — The Boys & Girls Clubs of Rutland County – Brandon Unit is hosting a fundraiser on Saturday, March 28 at the Paramount Theatre. The Paramount is showing the extreme skiing movie “Twenty,” and all ticket sales support the Boys & Girls Clubs.”Twenty” features 20 years of extreme skiing,…

 POULTNEY—Dr. Charles Hadlock, internationally acclaimed expert on managing environmental risk, will speak at Green Mountain College on Thursday, March 26 in the Gorge (Withey Hall) at 7 p.m. His address “Games, Competition, Cooperation, Evolution,” is free and open to the public. Using a very simple model, Hadlock will explore the way humans and other organisms interact…

Saturday, March 28 at 4:30 p.m. — WELLS — The Wells United Methodist Church presents it annual Old Tyme Sugarhouse Dinner on Saturday, March 28, from 4:30-7:30 p.m. The dinner will be held at the MWA Hall on West Main Street in Wells. This dinner celebrates all things maple! The unique feast starts with a huge salad…

Sunday, March 29 at 9 a.m. — KILLINGTON — On Sunday, March 29, head to Killington Elementary School for a great breakfast, entertainment, and prizes! The day begins with Spring Fling Breakfast in the Killington Elementary School dining hall from 9 - 10 a.m. Following the breakfast, stick around for a  free special performance by magician Lucky Bob, at 10…

Sunday, March 29 — LUDLOW — On Sunday, March 29, Okemo Mountain Resort will host its spring Cares and Shares Food Drive. When skiers and snowboarders donate at least five non-perishable food items, their generosity will be rewarded with an entire day of skiing and riding at Okemo for just $39 that same day. Okemo’s Mountain Ambassadors…

RUTLAND — Rutland Regional Medical Center, a sponsor of Vermont Public Television’s PBS series “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” will host a free film screening and community conversation with Allan Eisemann, MD, Medical Director and Rick Lovett, MD, Radiation Oncologist of the Foley Cancer Center at Rutland Regional Medical Center. The screening, hosted on Tuesday,…

Tuesday, March 31 at 6 p.m. — RUTLAND — Rutland Area Toastmasters invites residents to its open house to meet members and watch special guest speaker Peg Flory, State Senator from Rutland, talk about the importance of communication skills for today’s professional. The open house will take place on Tuesday, March 31 from 6-7 p.m. at Community…

Tuesday, March 31 at 7 p.m. — WOODSTOCK — Join the Norman Williams Public Library on Tuesday, March 31 for a poetry reading with Poet Laureate of Vermont, Sydney Lea. Lea will be reading from his forthcoming 12th book of poems, “No Doubt the Nameless,” as well as from even newer work and prior poetry collections. He…

Wednesday, April 8 — Chandler Center for the Arts announces auditions for the seventh annual Next Generation performance on Wednesday, April 8. Auditions are open to area high school age students age thirteen and up who are seriously studying classical music of all genres - instrumental, ensemble, or vocal, as soloists or groups. The concert will…

Funding is now available for Vermont artists and arts organizations through the Vermont Arts Endowment Fund and the Concert Artists Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation. The Vermont Arts Endowment Fund awards grants up to $5,000 to support the creation and presentation of new work by Vermont artists and arts organizations. Grants are typically made…

Editor’s note: Names, including the author’s, have been changed to protect identities due to the personal nature of this column. After spending some time in Boston and New York City this winter, I couldn’t help but notice two new dating terms for men that seemed to be popping up everywhere: “lumber sexual” and “man bun.”…

By Barbara Mackay The transition from February to March is not subtle. With hardly time to recover from a truncated month, we attend Town Meeting, cede an hour to our clocks, and navigate spontaneously erupting frost heaves. The forest is going through a seasonal transition, too, but at a more leisurely pace, and often invisibly.…

If you’re like me, you never watch regular-season college basketball, and then when the NCAA tournament rolls around and nobody can talk about anything else, you have to root arbitrarily for certain teams and against others, since you have no idea who the players are on either team or what they’re like. Yet it strikes…