By Virginia Dean Last Saturday was an unusually busy day for the village of Woodstock, with hundreds of visitors and locals descending on Elm Street to enjoy the 11th annual Taste of Woodstock — a festival of food, drink, live music, kids activities, dancing and shopping. Sponsored by Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, The Daily…

FAIR HAVEN — Looking for something to do on a Friday night? Fair Haven has a variety of events scheduled now through the month of October for folks of all ages. The Fair Haven Street Market takes place every Friday 4-7 p.m. from now until Oct. 15 and is located at the south end of…

By Brooke Geery Things felt better-than-normal for Chaffee Art Center’s summer Art in the Park, held Aug. 14-15 at Main Street Park in Rutland. On Sunday morning, perfect temps and blue skies created a comfortable environment as customers buzzed around to live music performed by Dirty Read Hearts. Additional local music acts played all weekend…

WOODSTOCK — Billings Farm & Museum is pleased to announce the results of the 2021 People’s Choice awards for its 35th annual quilt exhibition, held July 17 – Aug. 22, 2021. More than 10,000 visitors have viewed the exhibition to date and 1,100 ballots were cast for favorites in the large and small quilt categories.…

POULTNEY — Slate Valley Trails hosted the inaugural Slate Valley Epic Mountain Bike Race on Saturday, July 31. One hundred fifty racers from around the Northeast and beyond came to conquer the 38-mile course of over 5,000 feet of climbing. The weather blessed the event with a beautiful, sunny day — a rarity this summer in…

FAIR HAVEN — To help our neighbors meet some of the financial challenges due to the pandemic, Fair Haven Concerned’s food shelf has increased its hours. That has meant the increased need for volunteer help to staff both the food shelf and the thrift shop. The food shelf shifts are three hours long and are…

Wednesdays, 5 p.m. — MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS — Roll onto Sundog Lane in Middletown Springs on Wednesdays, and one is greeted by pizza, wildflower arrangements, and live music, emerging like an oasis from the greenery. Naga Bakehouse’s "Pizza in the Meadow" runs every Wednesday. Known for its "Vermatzah," hand-made, artisan matzah, Naga Bakehouse serves a variety…

Saturday, Aug. 21 at 10 a.m. — WOODSTOCK — Gear up for autumn gardening! The Billings Backyard Series presents "Putting Your Garden to Bed" with Master Gardener Ben Pauly on Saturday, Aug. 21 from 10–11:30 a.m. After a great season of gardening, how can you set yourself up for success next year? Ben Pauly will…

Thursday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. — FAIR HAVEN — The Fair Haven Concerts in the Park has seen some large crowds this summer and truly great performances by all our bands. There was even a Sunday afternoon concert by Enerjazz when the threat of storms cancelled their Thursday appearance. On Thursday, Aug. 19, we…

By Brooke Geery Comic readers, gamers and fans of "Star Wars" and other fantasy have a new reason to leave the house in Rutland, thanks to Jared Goodrich, 31, and his fiancé, Jenna Flood, 32. The couple has been stocking, assembling, and creating a destination shop on Woodstock Ave. in Rutland for over eight months.…

By Matt Britt After finding ways to adapt for nearly a year and a half, Rutland Young Professionals held an in-person mixer at the Lake Bomoseen Lodge and Taproom on July 27. To see the faces of more than 50 fellow young professionals together again was truly powerful. It’s likely that there were fewer hugs…

Pampered Chef for Pampered Pets is a Pampered Chef fundraiser to help raise needed funds for RCHS! If you missed out on ordering items the last time around, you will be able to shop again during the month of September to help make a difference. RCHS will receive a percentage of each sale made during…

By Merisa Sherman We came in hot, like I knew we would, arriving in the parking lot with an empty tank of gas and 10 minutes before launch time. The gang was already assembled — it looked like we were going to be riding in a nice sized group. There were hugs with those whom…

By Declan McCabe The opossums that show up on my students’ trail cameras at Saint Michael’s College sometimes look out of place, with their naked tails and frostbitten ears that seem so poorly suited to Vermont weather. These amazing consumers of ticks did, after all, come from a different continent — or at least their…

By Kevin Theissen Social Security is a critical component of many Americans’ retirement financial strategy. Before you begin taking it, consider ways to maximize this retirement income source for yourself. When to start? You have the choice of 1) starting benefits at age 62, 2) claiming them at your full retirement age, or 3) delaying…