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…

I first discovered James Joel six years ago when he was playing with Ryan Fuller in the duo group Fuller n’ the Hole at Center Street Saloon in Rutland, during my Monday night bar shift, which we referred to as “Mayhem Mondays.” Joel has really progressed over the years and has built a nice solo…

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Cal Garrison (a.k.a Mother of the Skye) writes weekly horoscopes for The Mountain Times. If you would like an emailed notification sent to you weekly, sign up for the newsletter, below.         Horoscopes for March 19 - March 25, 2015 Aries March 21 - April 20 With so much going for you the…

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Submitted Dirty Girl Mud Run participants get their pink on, in support of the race and its fundraising efforts for breast and ovarian cancer. Vermont destination added to 15 nationwide events  The Dirty Girl Mud Run series and Human Movement Management (HMM) announce the 2015 event locations on March 13. They include two new stops:…