RUTLAND— The Chaffee Art Center welcomes teens and young people to its new Open Studio Hub. This programming is open to teens and young people, ages 13-21 to stop by and enjoy the arts for free. Art supplies and light snacks will be provided. This free programming is made possible in part by the recent grant awarded…

Sunday, March 31, 4 p.m.—NO. POMFRET— The 10th annual Empty Bowls Project dinner will be held on March 31 at 4 p.m. at the Pomfret Town Hall. All funds will benefit the Woodstock Food Shelf and Change the World Kids. Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger, personalized by artists and art organizations…

Saturday, March 30, 1 p.m.—WHITE RIVER JUNCTION— “ Deployed,” a documentary play about the lives of female veterans by Nicola Smith and Samantha Lazar, will enjoy its first reading at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Saturday, March 30 at 1 p.m. This reading is free and open to the public. Reserve…

Friday, March 29—WHITE RIVER JUNCTION— On March 29 on Vietnam War Veteran Day will show our appreciation for more than 3 million Americans that served during the Vietnam War era. March 29 is the day in 1973 that the final troops returned to the U.S. from Vietnam, marking the end of U.S. involvement in the war.…

Friday, March 29, 7:30 p.m.—RANDOLPH— Three of contemporary music’s most celebrated singer songwriters – Loudon Wainwright III; his former life partner Suzzy Roche; and their daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche – will bring their critically acclaimed “ All in a Family ” concert to Chandler Center for the Arts on Friday evening, March 29, at 7:30…

Courtesy of Bread Loaf An architechual rendering of the new K-1 Lodge at the top of Killington Road as seen from the slope-side. Construction will begin this spring.

Courtesy of the Kavouksorian's Peter and Joann Kavouksorian

By Katy Savage KILLINGTON— Six years after investors purchased the Killington Pico Area Association (KPAA) building, the organization is buying it back. The KPAA has secured a 15-year loan to purchase the 9,000 square-foot Welcome Center building at the intersection of Route 4 and Route 100 in Killington for $357,000. “It’s a six-year vision that…

Courtesy of Killington Resort Chandler Burgess a.k.a. King of Spring

By Julia Purdy For several months the traveler on Route 4 has had nowhere to take a lunch/coffee break in the 10-mile stretch between the Killington Deli and Mama T’s at the bottom of the pass. The former Bridge’s Country Store on Route 4 in Mendon, vacant and on the market for several months, is…

Editor’s note: At the annual update, March 21, Killington Resort announced that Tracy Taylor and Rob Megnin would both retire. The resort submitted this look back at Taylor’s 32 year career. Look for a story on Megnin in a future edition. Tracy Taylor, Killington’s business development and special projects manager, is retiring June 1 after…

By Dom Cioffi My son is playing in a couple of spring basketball leagues over the next few months. He has games on Tuesday and Thursday nights and two on Saturday afternoons. It’s nothing serious, but it gets him playing and helps keep his skills fresh. He’s always loved to play basketball and would easily…

Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos recently announced that Vermont has been ranked 11th in total voter turnout for the 2018 midterm election across all 50 states in the seventh biennial edition of the “America Goes to the Polls” report, released by the nonpartisan groups Nonprofit VOTE and the U.S. Elections Project this week. “Voting…

By Katy Savage RUTLAND— After unsuccessfully trying to form a partnership with another institution, the struggling College of St. Joseph is closing this spring. President Jennifer Scott made the announcement to students Wednesday, March 20.  She said the college, which was about to lose accreditation, had an April 1 deadline to show the New England…

By Cal Garrison a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Sagittarius Moon. Whenever I sit down to write this column, I draw up a chart, and use the aspects to give me a sense of where things are at. Lately, the volume of information and aspects…