Friday, April 8 at 6 p.m. — CASTLETON — The Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland will feature the works of local artist Harry Bliss running from March 30 through April 30, with an artist reception scheduled for Friday, April 8 at 6 p.m. Entitled “Inspiring Bliss: Selected Works from the Collection of Harry Bliss” the exhibit…

Friday, April 9 at 7 p.m. — LUDLOW — The FOLA Follies, “Comedy Tonight,” will arrive in Ludlow on April 9 at 7 p.m. in the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium. According to director Tesha Buss, this edition of the Follies will “provide a lot of laughter for the audience so that it will definitely leave the…

Saturday, April 9 at 2 p.m. — RUTLAND — Live in HD from the National Theatre of Great Britain continues in its final week of this latest series on the big screen at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland. On Saturday, April 9, an encore screening of “The Hard Problem” will bring the series to a close. Acclaimed playwright Tom…

Saturday, April 9 at 12 p.m. — PLYMOUTH — Join the Coolidge Foundation on April 9 for a spring open house at the Coolidge Museum & Education Center at the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth. Walk through the quiet village where Coolidge grew up, returned to, and was sworn in as our nation’s 30th…

Tuesday, April 12 — RUTLAND — Ben & Jerry’s fans can mark April 12 on their calendars as the 2016 Ben & Jerriest day of the year: Free Cone Day! For the past 37 years, Ben & Jerry’s has opened scoop shops to dish out free ice cream to fans, thanking them for being so uniquely awesome.…

Saturday, April 9 at 10 a.m. — RUTLAND — In celebration of the Month of the Young Child and Autism Awareness Month, the Vermont Achievement Center ( VAC ), 88 Park Street in Rutland will hold its annual open house on Saturday, April 9 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. This event is free and open to the public…

Wednesday, April 13, 2 to 5 p.m. — POULTNEY—The Poultney Earth Fair draws hundreds of people each year from the local region to celebrate the environment and community. This year, the fair will be held on Wednesday, April 13 from 2 to 5 p.m. at Poultney High School. There is plenty of family fun, including…

Tuesday, April 12 at 6 p.m. — RUTLAND — One organ and tissue donor can save up to eight lives and restore health to 50 others. Unfortunately, every day 21 people die waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. Join Rutland Regional Medical Center for an overview of organ and tissue donation and transplantation on Tuesday, April 12…

CASTLETON — The Castleton Alumni Association is holding its first spring gala on Saturday, April 16 at the Holiday Inn in Rutland beginning at 6 p.m. The gala will include a dinner buffet and dancing to the sounds of Enerjazz. Cost of tickets is $50 per person. Tickets can be purchased online at castleton.edu/alumni-giving/alumni-association/spring-gala/ Proceeds from the event…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of an old, Pisces moon, with a mixture of aspects that will be easier to handle if we are clear about the fact that life on this planet is vibrating at a completely new and different frequency. In…

By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul During my walks through the woods these days, I am often accompanied by curious children. These children, who are my own, notice many things that I often do not, and they are filled with questions. Who made that track? Why does this grow here? What kind of mushroom is that? With…

Courtesy of Dave Hoffenberg There’s a new band in the area that you all need to check out—the Super Stash Bros. Catch them this Friday at Center Street Alley; every Saturday night at Moguls Sports Pub; as well as the Moguls Pig Roast on Sunday, April 17. They also play at various places in the…

By Brady Crain Pico Mountain, as seen with slim to no coverage, is grounds for a good hike I had a pet subject all picked out for this week, and then I completely forgot it. Gone. Poof. And now I wonder about a possible latent TBI from smacking my face on the ice a couple…

Have you ever watched that Bravo show “Inside the Actors Studio,” where, during every episode, the host James Lipton ritualistically asks his interviewee the same series of artfully banal personal questions—clearly idiotic but boosted into respectability by their French provenance (their origin being the journalist Bernard Pivot, not, as is sometimes claimed, the novelist Marcel…

By Tony Crespi The run was steep. The snow, as it has been often this season, firm. In the distance the sky was mostly blue with patches of cloud. As I cruised into the liftline, the lift attendant (a.k.a. the “lifty”) was grinning. After a moment of friendly chatter, I asked about his seeming boundless…