Wednesday, Aug. 24 at 6 p.m.—RUTLAND—Mount Saint Joseph Academy will hold its sixth annual cookout for prospective students and families at historic Saint Peter’s Field on River Street in Rutland on Wednesday, Aug. 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. Hamburgers, hot dogs, and salads will be served. (Rain date will be Thursday, Aug. 25.) MSJ…

Thursday, Aug. 25 at 7 a.m.—RUTLAND—Green Mountain Power invites community members to be the cure for patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other deadly diseases by attending the Be The Match marrow donor registration drive Thursday, Aug. 25 from 7 to 10 a.m. at the GMP office, 2152 Post Road in Rutland. To join the registry…

Thursday, Aug. 25, at 5:30 p.m.—WEST PAWLET—The West Pawlet Volunteer Fire Department auction will be held Thursday, Aug. 25, at the West Pawlet Firehouse, Route 153 in West Pawlet. All of the items will be available to view starting at 4 p.m. The bidding action begins at 5:30 p.m. and ends when all items are…

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, Aug. 24-26, 6 p.m.—BRANDON—Auditions for the third annual Brandon Has Talent show will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 24-26, from 6 to 8 p.m. Those who sing, play an instrument, dance, play in a band or have a special talent could perform on Brandon Town Hall stage. Schedule…

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 26-28—LUDLOW—This weekend motorized vehicles past and present is the theme for three days of activities and events in the Okemo Valley, from Friday through Sunday, Aug. 26-28, beginning with a cruise-in and Best Chevy contest, to a show of antique and classic autos and motorcycles, ending with the Okemo Valley…

Saturday, Aug. 27 at 12 p.m.—CHITTENDEN—The Town of Chittenden will celebrate  Chittenden Day on Saturday, Aug. 27, beginning at noon. This is the first time in 20 years that the Town is hosting a day-long event. A big parade at 12-noon will kick off the day. The parade route will be from the power house…

Sunday, Aug. 28 at 4 p.m.—WOODSTOCK—This year’s Annual Mozart Festival, led by celebrated violist Scott Woolweaver, will highlight a selection of Mozart masterpieces and will close, as always, with the mysterious and powerful “Ave Verum Corpus.” The ensemble also features John Lindsey, violin, and Karen Kaderavek, cello. Scott Woolweaver is on the faculty of the…

Saturday, Aug. 27, at 1 p.m.—ORWELL—Learn about making topical herbal remedies with Julie Mitchell, clinical herbalist, at the Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 1-3 p.m. Julie Mitchell is a gardener, educator, and clinical herbalist. In this workshop participants will spend the first hour on an herb walk to…

RUTLAND—Rutland First, Rutland’s grassroots organization is hosting a public event on Monday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. at Rutland Free Library to meet with Rutland area elected officials and to discuss regional issues related to refugee resettlement. The group sees the meeting as an opportunity to “provide a balanced view of this situation with regard to…

Monday, Aug. 29 at 5 p.m.—GRANVILLE, N.Y.—The Slate Valley Museum will hold its annual dinner and a silent auction on Monday, Aug. 29 at the Whitehall Athletic Club in Whitehall, N.Y. The silent auction and cocktails begin at 5 p.m. with the dinner at 6:30 p.m. The silent auction will feature local arts and craft…

Friday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m.—MOUNT HOLLY—The Mount Holly Art Group will host a retrospective exhibit of commercial and fine art from the 1940s to the present by Viola Higgins. The exhibit will open on Friday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m. at the Mount Holly Community Center, 26 Maple Hill Road in Belmont. Higgins was…

Monday, Aug. 22 at 6 p.m.—WOODSTOCK—In the second of a series of three evenings, Michael Barnhart, artistic director of the Raw Shakespeare Company, will conduct a spirited discussion of Act III, Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s play, “Hamlet.” The discussion will be held on Monday, Aug. 22 at 6 p.m. Barnhart will focus on Claudius’…

Friday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m.—LUDLOW—The Tony Lee Thomas Band will perform on Friday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m. in the courtyard at Okemo’s Jackson Gore Inn. Admission is free and the grounds open at 5 p.m. Attendees may bring lawn chairs or picnic blankets. In case of rain, the concerts will move under cover.…

Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 20-21—HUBBARDTON—The Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site is hosting two events exploring the 1776-77 Mount Independence-Hubbardton military road, the weekend of Aug. 20-21. On Saturday, Aug. 20, at 9:30 p.m., an orientation and guided auto tour will take place along the section of the military road from Hubbardton to Center Rutland, guided…

Final musicale to be held in October Sunday, Aug. 21 at 4 p.m.—PLYMOUTH NOTCH—The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site hosts the second of this season’s Grace Coolidge musicales on Sunday, Aug.  21, at 4 p.m. The 45-minute concert is free; donations are welcome. The program, “Les Françaises: French Music for Piano and Voice,” consists…