Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 11 a.m.—MIDDLEBURY—Town Hall Theater in Middlebury will be presenting “Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine,” a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as…

Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m.—MIDDLEBURY—The final films for the Climate Action Film Festival have been selected. After receiving over 250 entries, the field has been narrowed down to nine amazing short films to make up our single-evening 80-minute program. The  premiere screening will be held  in Middlebury at the Marquis Theatre & Café on February…

Saturday, Feb. 15 at 8 a.m.—WEST RUTLAND—The Rutland Audubon Society invites you to join them for the monthly West Rutland marsh monitoring walk, which also happens in fall during the Great Backyard Bird Count.  Do the full 3.7 mile loop in this National Audubon IBA (Important Bird Area), or go halfway. Kids, new birders and…

VINS celebrates with a series of special programs Friday, Feb. 14- Sunday, Feb. 17—QUECHEE—This weekend, professional and amateur ornithologists alike will join forces to catalog the current state of birdlife around the world. Participants are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) on one or more…

Friday, Feb. 14 at 5 p.m.—RUTLAND—Get out and enjoy one of Vermont’s most beautiful seasons with a week full of outdoor activities during Presidents’ Day break. This Rutland tradition boasts a range of activities celebrating the winter season with outdoor and indoor fun. Events include sledding through downtown on Center Street, free ice skating at…

By Merisa Sherman May your days be filled with powder, and mountains, and snow. May you find joy and happiness wherever it is your skis may go. May you make warmth for each other when you are stuck on the lift. May you always give and receive skis, as a time treasured gift. May you…

By Tony Crespi “You can maximize performance by skiing a tuned ski,” noted PSIA examiner and Bromley Pro Charlie Rockwell. “Skiing a tuned ski means you are better able to perform at your highest level.” This year tuning may never have been more critical. Have you ever sliced bread or cut a piece of fruit…

By Cal Garrison a.k.a Mother of the Skye This week’s horoscopes are coming out under the waning light of a Virgo Moon. We are coming up on the annual festival of love and hearts, Valentine’s Day. With that in mind it must be time to talk about what we do in the name of love.…

The Outside Story By Susie Spikol I have always admired nature’s mutineers: animals and plants that thwart the recognized system and do their own thing. As a child I was the sole member of my own duck-billed platypus club, endeared to this creature with the bird-like bill, beaver-style tail, and shocking ability to lay eggs.…

By Mary Ellen Shaw Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! It is a day devoted to love, and as one would expect, the majority of greeting cards are romantic. Some are funny and others simply wish you a “Happy Valentine’s Day.” You can come up with your own meaning for those words! Since Year…

Bringing the game home By Dom Cioffi Somewhere around the ninth grade, something clicked in my head with basketball, where it went from an activity to a passion. I had always played on my school teams and enjoyed watching the sport on TV, but it had never held any hallowed ground in my mind until…

On Thursday, Jan. 30, the Ottauquechee Health Foundation held its Annual Membership Meeting at Billings Farm and Museum. At the event, the Foundation shared its accomplishments and goals and recognized select community partners for their outstanding service and support of OHF’s mission. For almost 24 years, OHF has provided close to $4 million to support…

Vermont Law School’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Center in South Royalton is offering free help with tax return preparation and electronic filing help to qualified Vermonters from now through April 8 at the South Royalton campus. Available from 5 to 7 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, the VITA Center’s IRS-certified volunteers offer help to taxpayers…

By Ed Larson Rutland City Police Chief Brian Kilcullen stated that police responded to Terrill Street in Rutland on Sunday, Feb. 9 for a report of possible shots being fired. Police later determined that no shooting occurred, however a wrench was pounded on a window of a residence in an effort to get the attention…

$9,000 grant will help develop a guiding vision for the town following closure of Green Mountain College The town of Poultney received $9,000 in state planning grants to develop a guiding vision for the town and explore updates to the regulations to support the downtown following closure of Green Mountain College. Poultney was one of…