Saturday, March 5 at 10 a.m. — WOODSTOCK — Vermont wildlife gets creative during the winter months to endure the cold temperatures and harsh winter conditions. Learn what different habitats exist in your backyard and our National Park in Winter Animal Habitats, a Working Woodlands Workshop made possible by the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. The free workshop…

Sunday, March 6 — RANDOLPH — Next summer’s youth musical at Chandler Center for the Arts will be “Anything Goes.” Auditions are scheduled for Sunday, March 6 for teen lead roles and Sunday, March 13 for elementary and teen chorus roles. Performances will be held on the main stage at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph on June 30 through July 3. On- and…

Courtesy of C. Hunt

Thursday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. — RANDOLPH — The public is welcome to attend “How Land use Affects Wildlife” workshop with Kim Royar on March 10 at the Vermont Tech Enterprise Center, Randolph from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Kim Royar, a biologist with Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife will be presenting a program on land…

Tuesday, March 8 at 4 p.m. — RUTLAND — The Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce is excited to present the Rutland Regional Medical Center Business Show 2016. The show will be held on Tuesday, March 8 at the Holiday Inn, Route 7 South in Rutland from 4 to 7:30 p.m. The show will feature over 90 area…

Tuesday, March 8 at 6 p.m. — RUTLAND — Rutland Regional Medical Center offers a variety of community programs to promote health and wellness. Join for a five part-series designed to help make lifestyle changes to improve health and well-being. The workshops feature the basics of nutrition, exercise and evidence-based lifestyle changes. Attendees will learn how to…

March — CASTLETON — Castleton University will once again participate in the nationwide celebration of Women’s History Month during the month of March, by featuring an array of on-campus activities, lectures and speakers throughout. Since 1988 Castleton has proudly highlighted the influence of women through the celebration of Women’s History Month. This year, a variety of events…

By Brady Crain

Friendship has phases that begin with our childhood friends and continue throughout our entire life. When we are old enough to go outside and play with the children in our neighborhood, we begin the process of choosing our friends. We sort out the traits and characteristics that meet our needs. Betty was the first neighborhood…

By Rachel Sargent The bare ground of the trail wound through dead leaves and patchy snow. At a short overhang in the trail, I noticed spiky threads of ice growing up from the soil in crunchy clusters. A careless boot revealed how fragile these formations are; the fine ice threads crumbled readily. This was needle…

By the time this column reaches you, reader, the 88th Academy Awards will have come and gone, and you’ll barely be able to remember what happened. But as I write this, the Oscars are still a couple of days away, and both the professional and amateur spheres of movie criticism are abuzz with predictions and…

By Robin Alberti

By Robin Alberti

By Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, reports the marijuana legalization bill before a packed Senate chamber Wednesday, Feb. 24. The bill, S.241, will now go to the House. By Elizabeth Hewitt and Mark Johnson, VTDigger.org The Senate OK’d a bill Wednesday that would legalize and regulate recreational marijuana — a move that one senator…

Illustrations by Breadloaf, courtesy of UVAC Renditions of the proposed expansion to White River’s Upper Valley Aquatic Center show the new outside profile. Additional 8,000 square feet will expand locker rooms, exercise studio, fitness space and physical therapy center WHITE RIVER JCT — Due to the growth of Upper Valley Aquatic Center’s (UVAC) membership base,…