Dear Editor, I am shocked that 11,800 acres are slated to be logged in the Green Mountain National Forest’s Telephone Gap Area. While the Forest Service’s Plan is attention grabbing, it misses the fact that the best protection for biodiversity and earth’s climate is to let forests mature. Animals of the forest need wild…

Dear Editor,  On behalf of Community Care Network and its two agencies, Rutland Mental Health Services and Rutland Community Programs, I extend my sincere thanks to the voters throughout Rutland County for their support in approving funding for our programs during the recent March Town Meetings.  For Rutland Mental Health Services, town giving supports a…

By Pati Beaumont Editor’s note: The following commentary was written by Pati Beaumont, chairperson of the Slate Valley Unified Union School Board, as an open letter to the Slate Valley Unified Union School District community and published here by request. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the 2,472 individuals who exercised their…

Local CCC camps were located throughout the region in Bethel, Cuttingsville/North Shrewsbury, Danby/Mount Tabor, East Wallingford/Weston, Ludlow, Mendon, Plymouth, Proctorsville/Cavendish, Poultney, Rochester, Sharon and Windsor Civilian Conservation Corps Day will be celebrated nationwide on Friday, April 5 because on that day in 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) with Executive Order 6101.…

By Curt Peterson Every Hartlander should know they will have a chance to vote on the revised school budget on Tuesday, April 2. Absentee voting is available now. The Hartland School District serves the children of Hartland, Vermont by operating a K-8 school in town and tuitioning students in grades 9-12 to the high school…

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By Deborah J. Benoit, UVM extension master gardener It’s no surprise that the Easter lily (Lilium longiflorum) is the most popular floral gift for Easter giving, but did you know that, contrary to its name, it isn’t a spring-blooming flower? When grown outdoors, they bloom during the summer. Commercial growers go through a carefully timed…

By Debra Heleba, UVM Extension community horticulture director This time of year, when plants are normally in their dormant stage, usually finds gardeners conducting late-winter pruning of apple and other fruit trees. However, recent warmer temperatures may have encouraged many trees to prematurely wake up, causing gardeners to ask, “Is it too late to prune?”…

We were making progress on Dad’s Killington dream lodge, but it was slow going with lots of delays, often due to frequent weather changes. Whenever it rained, water leaked onto the floor. When it was bitter cold, ice carpeted the back room. With electricity in our basement at last, extension cords snaked around the room.…

By Merisa Sherman I came over the crest, and my heart skipped a beat. I wasn’t ready for this kind of greatness. Who really was expecting something that I don’t remember witnessing since I was a child? A little one at that. But there it was, laid out in all its glory for everyone. Well,…

When I was growing up, my father loved to watch boxing on the weekends. I don’t remember him ever attending any in-person matches, but he would spend hours scrutinizing fights on television.  Since he controlled the dial, I watched a lot of boxing by default. I got to know the major fighters and their stats…

In the cosmic dance of heavenly bodies, no phenomenon possesses the drama of a solar eclipse, when the moon passes directly between the sun and earth. In the path of totality, where the moon completely obscures our home star, the world falls into an ominous darkness that has evoked everything from wonder to dread. This…

I looked out the window at the crystals slowly drifting down. Their lacy designs are both beautiful and unique at the same time. I thought about how they are beautiful in their own way, like us. They pile up on the ground, raising the pile of fluff higher and higher. They seem to sparkle and…

Fields and fields of daisies, As far as the eye can see. Bunnies hopping around, Cute little creatures, So carefree, Not paying attention to anything else. Right now, They are paying attention to where they are, Paying attention to when it is. That’s what’s important. Paying attention to themselves, Paying attention to their families, To…