Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, Aug. 24-26, 6 p.m.—BRANDON—Auditions for the third annual Brandon Has Talent show will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 24-26, from 6 to 8 p.m. Those who sing, play an instrument, dance, play in a band or have a special talent could perform on Brandon Town Hall stage. Schedule…

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 26-28—LUDLOW—This weekend motorized vehicles past and present is the theme for three days of activities and events in the Okemo Valley, from Friday through Sunday, Aug. 26-28, beginning with a cruise-in and Best Chevy contest, to a show of antique and classic autos and motorcycles, ending with the Okemo Valley…

Saturday, Aug. 27 at 12 p.m.—CHITTENDEN—The Town of Chittenden will celebrate  Chittenden Day on Saturday, Aug. 27, beginning at noon. This is the first time in 20 years that the Town is hosting a day-long event. A big parade at 12-noon will kick off the day. The parade route will be from the power house…

Sunday, Aug. 28 at 4 p.m.—WOODSTOCK—This year’s Annual Mozart Festival, led by celebrated violist Scott Woolweaver, will highlight a selection of Mozart masterpieces and will close, as always, with the mysterious and powerful “Ave Verum Corpus.” The ensemble also features John Lindsey, violin, and Karen Kaderavek, cello. Scott Woolweaver is on the faculty of the…

Saturday, Aug. 27, at 1 p.m.—ORWELL—Learn about making topical herbal remedies with Julie Mitchell, clinical herbalist, at the Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 1-3 p.m. Julie Mitchell is a gardener, educator, and clinical herbalist. In this workshop participants will spend the first hour on an herb walk to…

RUTLAND—Rutland First, Rutland’s grassroots organization is hosting a public event on Monday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. at Rutland Free Library to meet with Rutland area elected officials and to discuss regional issues related to refugee resettlement. The group sees the meeting as an opportunity to “provide a balanced view of this situation with regard to…

Monday, Aug. 29 at 5 p.m.—GRANVILLE, N.Y.—The Slate Valley Museum will hold its annual dinner and a silent auction on Monday, Aug. 29 at the Whitehall Athletic Club in Whitehall, N.Y. The silent auction and cocktails begin at 5 p.m. with the dinner at 6:30 p.m. The silent auction will feature local arts and craft…

By: Lani Duke Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union tackles Act 46 Representatives from the towns of Benson, Castleton, Fair Haven, Hubbardton, Orwell, and West Haven will soon begin conferring to develop a satisfactory consolidation agreement in compliance with Act 46. It’s about a year since the six-town group first attempted to hammer out a solution to the…

Castleton Polling Institute earns national contract CASTLETON – The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recently awarded the Castleton University Polling Institute a $400,000 contract to develop and pilot test an interactive health-related survey and journal system, according to a Castleton University news release, Monday, Aug. 22.. Director of the Polling Institute Dr. Rich…

By: Lani Duke School districts consider Act 46 by deadlines School classrooms are filling up soon, and boards are returning to tackle discussions of how to meet the state-mandated merger requirements of Act 46. If these school districts combine, which are left out? Which lie in between but don’t fit in terms of their structure?…

By Cal Garrison, a.ka. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Void-of-Course, Aries Moon, just as the sun leaves Leo and enters the sign of the Virgin. As I sit down to dream up yet another batch of astrological musings, it occurs to me that half the…

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Friday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m.—MOUNT HOLLY—The Mount Holly Art Group will host a retrospective exhibit of commercial and fine art from the 1940s to the present by Viola Higgins. The exhibit will open on Friday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m. at the Mount Holly Community Center, 26 Maple Hill Road in Belmont. Higgins was…

Monday, Aug. 22 at 6 p.m.—WOODSTOCK—In the second of a series of three evenings, Michael Barnhart, artistic director of the Raw Shakespeare Company, will conduct a spirited discussion of Act III, Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s play, “Hamlet.” The discussion will be held on Monday, Aug. 22 at 6 p.m. Barnhart will focus on Claudius’…