RCHS reminds you that February is Adopt-a-Rescued-Rabbit month!  Did you know that rabbits are the third most likely animals to find themselves looking for a new home?  Rabbits make excellent companions.  They can live eight to 10 years and bond closely to their adopters.  Quiet but curious, rabbits can also be trained to use a…

  Thursday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m.—On Thursday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m., the Vermont Sierra Club, with support from Transportation for Vermonters and the Vermont Natural Resources Council, will be hosting a virtual Transit Equity Day celebration promoting public transit as a civil right and effective means of combating climate change. The Vermont Sierra…

Barre author Craig A. Comstock announces the release of ‘The Worst of Sinners: A Novel’ “Was the apostle Paul using hyperbole in calling himself the ‘worst of sinners” when writing to Timothy prior to his death? What does Paul tell us today about free will, repentance, grace, election, and forgiveness? How does God take away…

By Victoria Gaither For 25 years, Black Dog Sports in Killington has been getting skiers and snowboarders ready forThe Beast. Based on industry standards, new techniques developed over the years by owner and operator Dave Manning provide skiers with a better edge to ride Killington and Pico. “We iron on the wax, and it’s a…

By Brooke Geery Skolf, developed by Airblaster in 2016/2017, is a competitive snowboarding blend of S-K-A-T-E and golf. For the past several seasons, the outerwear brand has held skolf world tours, crowning champions across the globe. But with Covid-19, the world tour was scrapped for a  smaller, localized activation. The Darkside in Killington was one…

FAIR HAVEN—Fair Haven Free Library Is now offering take-out… for your child’s brain that is. The library has prepared several story time take-out kits. Each kit contains four books on a theme with accompanying family fun activities appropriate for children approximately age 3-8. Current available themes are Penguins, Silly Stories, Maple Sugaring, Pirates, Valentine’s Day, Presidents,…

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 -…