WEST HAVEN—Devil’s Bowl Speedway is making a big change for the 2021 season. The historic half-mile Vermont dirt track is switching to Saturday as its primary race night for the new year, setting itself up for a schedule that should be more convenient for fans, competitors, and officials. Opening night will be Saturday, May 1…

Wed. Jan. 27 at 7 p.m.—All of this has happened before and will happen again as noted by Marcus Aurelius—the same plot from beginning to end, the identical staging. However, when you are in the midst of a pandemic, it feels as if it’s never happened before (it most likely hasn’t happened to you before) and…

A talk by Professor Ellery Foutch MIDDLEBURY—The Henry Sheldon Museum presents “Forget Me Not: Memorial Practices in 19th-Century Vermont,” a talk by Professor Ellery Foutch on Thursday, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. In this talk presented via Zoom, Professor Foutch will discuss memorial wreaths and mourning objects created in Vermont in the 1800s. Crafted from…

By Brooke Geery Burton Snowboards, based in Burlington, has announced a program to support shops during the challenges of Covid-19, by encouraging customers to stop by and enter to win a professional snowboarder’s personal equipment. George Carpenter, son of Burton founder Jake Burton Carpenter and Donna Carpenter, explained in a letter: “When Covid hit, our…

With the 2021 winter ice fishing season firmly underway, and Free Fishing Day coming up on Saturday, Jan. 30, the Vermont Fish& Wildlife Dept. (VTFW) announced they have created an online virtual ice fishing festival to help new anglers learn about ice fishing equipment, gear, and techniques. For the past seven years, VTFW has hosted an in-person…

By Brooke Geery On the weekend of Jan. 15-17, The Woodstock Inn and Suicide Six ski area hosted the annual “Flurry” snow sculpting competition, organized by Artistree Vermont. Six teams worked feverishly all weekend to craft incredibly large and detailed sculptures behind the Suicide Six lodge, that started out as 6’x6’x8’ tall solid blocks of…

If you like to walk, run or bike you can help raise funds for RCHS with a new app called Wooftrax! You can download the app from wooftrax.com on your Android or iPhone and start raising needed funds for the animals at RCHS.It’s easy to use and a great way to help RCHS. So each time you…

By Melinda Myers Add fresh flavor to your meals year-round with microgreens. These easy-to-grow greens need minimal space and no special equipment for a flavorful and nutritious harvest in little more than a week. Use microgreens on salads, soups, pizzas, omelets, in stir fries or as a snack. These tiny seedlings are packed with more…

Known nationally for its flavorful line of infused, barrel-aged, and smoked maple syrups, Vermont-based producer Runamok Maple announced this week that it has expanded into the cocktail space, unveiling a new collection of maple cocktail syrups and bitters. The line of cocktail mixers will feature four different syrups - Maple Old Fashioned, Maple Tonic, Smoked Old Fashioned, and Maple Ginger Mule -…

Stock the House has been serving Vermont since 2017 with its concierge services that make vacationing as relaxing as possible. But, with decreased travel to Vermont during the pandemic, this small business has shifted its focus to safety. Through its traditional concierge services, Stock the House can bring Vermonters anything they need, keeping everyone safely…

Vermont Studio Center (VSC) announced the virtual VSC line-up for February, 2021. Virtual VSC offers a rich variety of new on-line, readings, artist talks, book discussions, craft conversations and gallery shows. Virtual VSC is open to the public and engages an international community of artists and writers in a diversity of compelling, thought provoking online…

Leisure time can seem like a luxury for many adults. While it can seem like there’s little time in the day to do more than tend to responsibilities at work and at home, people may have more time to pursue leisure activities than they realize. In its 2018 American Time Use Survey, the U.S. Bureau…

  By Victoria Gaither You can look at many things to judge a community; the top of my list is art. Art is a community heartbeat, and I felt the beat strong on a cold morning as I walked through downtown Rutland to view spectacular murals. Sure, most communities have murals, but there is something special…

Cookies are now for sale across New Hampshire and Vermont through online portals Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains and Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) have kicked off the 2021 Girl Scout Cookie season nationally, during a challenging time when many Girl Scouts are selling in creative, socially distant, and contact-free ways…

In an era of creative dining combined with the search for normalcy as the Covid-19 pandemic continues, Killington Distillery at Still on the Mountain is offering the opportunity to enjoy a dining experience in the privacy of your own heated gondola. Diners can call for availability of the two gondolas, and if available, they can…