By Karen D. Lorentz The fourth annual Shriners’ pancake breakfast will take place at the Meeting House in Shrewsbury on Saturday April 2 from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The buffet-style breakfast includes pancakes, bacon, sausage, juice and coffee and, of course, maple syrup. The idea of a breakfast came about because Shriners Bill and…

Students learn the full process of sugaring at Killington By Robin Alberti KILLINGTON — Every year the fourth graders at Killington Elementary school get to experience an important part of our state’s history, culture and economy: maple sugaring.  The school is equipped with a sugar shack and evaporator to boil sap into syrup. All the…

Maple Open House Weekend offers visitors an opportunity to see a variety of sugarhouses throughout Vermont in operation during sugaring season. Sugarmakers are pleased to open their doors and educate visitors on all things maple. Learn how the sap from the trees gets to the sugarhouse and becomes the maple syrup we all love, why…

By Todd McLeish Driving home from work the other day, I saw my first road-killed skunk of the year. And if this year is anything like the last few, it won’t be the last one I see this season. While April showers do indeed bring May flowers, it’s also true that warm weather in March…

Following last week’s terrorist attack in Brussels, Hillary Clinton tweeted sentiments of solidarity, resolve, and anti-Islamophobia, as well as an info-graphic displaying her three-point “plan to defeat ISIS” in Syria and Iraq. Bernie Sanders expressed his condolences to the people of Brussels, stating that this “attack is a brutal reminder that the international community must…

My knee is healing beautifully. This is by far the least catastrophic MCL injury I have ever had (my fourth on the left), and it is the first one where the morning after the incident, I started riding a stationary bike. I think this has something to do with it. I don’t ride as hard…

By Julia Purdy At the end of River Street in Rutland, where East Creek and Otter Creek converge, flocks of Canada geese gather and fishermen drop their lines. The confluence is a spot rich in nostalgia. As of March 23, 2016, a familiar landmark—the 88-year-old steel truss bridge—is no more; only its stone abutments remain.…

Oh, how life has changed over the years! You don’t give it much thought until you stop and think about the “then and now.” As I sit at my computer I recall the days of my high school typing class. We rolled the paper into a manual typewriter and typed such phrases as, “The quick…

Shifts in consciousness By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Sagittarius Moon, in the aftermath of our annual date with the Easter Bunny. If we have managed to transcend the negative side-effects of whatever he left in our Easter Baskets, we are waking…

By Dom Cioffi It’s spring break season, which means that millions of people across the country either head to the mountains or the beaches for fun and frivolity. My family opted for the mountains this year – the Rocky Mountains, to be exact. Of course, any vacation week requires travel, but when everyone travels during…

Last week I wrote about Frank Chase who has been playing Killington since 1978. I thought that was the longest tenure of my article subjects, but this week I got to speak with Guy Burlage, who can top that since he came here in 1976, although I first met him in 2003. Burlage and some…

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Courtesy of Pentangle Arts Council GREG ABATE International jazz artist and master musician Greg Abate leads the Greg Abate Quartet onstage at ArtisTree Community Arts Center on Friday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. Known for his energetic, lively, and playful interpretations of jazz, Abate is considered one of the finest proponents and interpreters of bebop…

Courtesy of Chandler Center for the Arts KAMIKAZE COMEDY Friday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. — RANDOLPH — Kamikaze Comedy takes the stage at Chandler Music Hall on Friday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. Come “laugh your darn face off” with this Burlington based improv troupe. They have been performing together since 1995, creating outrageous characters,…