Dear Editor, The Solar Energy Industries Association recently stated there are 72 solar companies in Vermont. Looks like they are swooping in buying up land and desecrating our environment with these ugly panels and their hardware. When there are no siting standards to speak of in Vermont, anything goes, when it comes to solar placement. It’s…

Dear editor, Thanks to all who attended the Rutland Meals Challenge at Rutland Bowlerama and to those who gave donations to our bowlers! This event raised an amazing $1,126 for the Rutland Meals Challenge, which will provide 4,504 meals to food shelves in Rutland County. Please visit https://vtmealschallenge.wordpress.com to learn more about the Rutland Meals…

Dear Editor, In response to the article “Experts predict bad mosquito season for area” in the May 28-June 3 edition: This year, it is so obvious that something is different in respects to the horrific amount of mosquitos out, not just during the evening hours, but, all day long.  I have not been able to…

By Dom Cioffi It happened on the evening of May 16, 1983; one of those events that was burned into my mind as well as the minds of millions of other people around the planet. It took only five minutes, but those five minutes would change the world forever. Growing up, we had two televisions…

Submitted AARON AUDET BAND Thursday, July 23 at 7 p.m. — FAIR HAVEN — The Fair Haven Concerts in the Park welcomes back Aaron Audet on Thursday, July 2. Audet brings with him his band, consisting of local musicians Jeff Poremski on lead guitar, Chris Johnson on the electric bass, and Ross Edmunds on the drums.…

Saturday, July 25 at 2 p.m. — ORWELL — The summer and fall of 1776 during the American Revolution was a time of high drama on Lake Champlain and Mount Independence in Orwell. On Saturday, July 25 at 2 p.m. the Mount Independence State Historic Site gets out the time machine for the program, “An Investigation into…

Submitted St. John’s Episcopal Church in Poultney reopened in 2014 after over 80 years closed, since 1931. Saturday, July 25 — EAST POULTNEY — The historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in East Poultney reopened for this summer in June as a summer chapel with weekly worship services every Saturday at 4 p.m. Service of Evening…

Courtesy of Billings Farm & Museum Children partake in the classic game of penny-in-the-haystack at Billings Farm & Museum. Sunday, July 26 at 10 a.m. — WOODSTOCK — Billings Farm & Museum will feature Hay Day on Sunday, July 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  The event will feature traditional 19th century haying techniques using horse-drawn…

By Robin Alberti It’s all things blueberry on Sunday at Okemo, as it celebrate its first-ever Blueberry Festival. Sunday, July 26 at 10 a.m. — LUDLOW — July is National Blueberry Month and Okemo Mountain Resort is celebrating the nutritious and tasty little blue orb with its first-ever Blueberry Festival on Sunday, July 26. Though native to…

Courtesy of Town of Killington BIM SKALA BIM Saturday, July 25 at 3:30 p.m. — KILLINGTON — Bim Skala Bim will perform a free concert at Killington Resort’s Snowshed Base Area on Saturday, July 25 beginning at 3:30 p.m. The free concert is part of the Town of Killington’s Cooler in the Mountains summer concert series, presented…

Courtesy of RCMS HELIAND TRIO Sunday, July 26 at 4 p.m. — ROCHESTER — The Rochester Chamber Music Society presents soprano Mary Bonhag with the Heliand Trio in Rochester, on Sunday, July 26 at 4 p.m. in the Rochester Federated Church. The program features lyrical songs by Schubert, including his iconic “Shepherd on the Rock” trio, a…

Thursday, July 23 at 7 p.m. — LUDLOW — The Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce will join with FOLA (Friends of Ludlow Auditorium) to offer a very special business presentation called “Encore Entrepreneurship Class” on Thursday, July 23 at 7 p.m. in the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium. The program will feature Chris Herriman of the Small Business Administration (SBA) in Montpelier…

By Stephen Seitz WOODSTOCK – Visitors from all over are expected to descend on the Woodstock Green July 24-26 for the annual Bookstock Literary Festival. Book sales begin at 9 a.m. and run until 6 p.m. on July 24, opening day. Food and exhibitor tents will be open on the Green from 10 a.m. to…

Saturday, July 25 at 9:30 a.m. — BELMONT — The 9th annual Mount Holly Garden Tour will be held on Saturday, July 25 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a self-guided tour of diverse, high altitude gardens, including a wide range of perennials, organic vegetables, and truly creative landscaping ideas. Depending on the gardens in the…

July 24-25 — WOODSTOCK — Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is pleased to partner with Bookstock, the Green Mountain Festival of Words to offer some special book-related activities. Two special literary offerings will occur in the park during Bookstock: a special writing and drawing workshop for young people; and a ranger-led Robert Frost poetry walk. Youth are invited…