Courtesy of The Nature Museum at Grafton Beekeeper Ross Conrad collects honey from his bees. Conrad will share his passion for bees at a workshop Saturday.  One can’t help but wonder how many times he’s been stung! Saturday, March 14 at 9 a.m. — CHESTER — Celebrated Vermont beekeeper Ross Conrad will host an organic beekeeping workshop…

Courtesy of Bethel University Attendees listen intently, during a Bethel University pop up wine class held last year —the inaugural year for BU. Registration now open for courses and meet-up groups through March BETHEL—Registration is now open for Bethel’s one-of-a-kind pop-up university, which will run again this March. Members of the community are offering 36…

Four $500 scholarships to be awarded CASTLETON – Castleton College, in partnership with Vermont PBS, invites Vermont high school students to participate in the 20th annual Castleton Videofest. High School students throughout Vermont and the surrounding area are encouraged to submit DVDs in any of four categories: documentary, experimental/animation, narrative fiction, and public service announcements/advertisements.…

Wednesday, March 4 at 7 p.m. — RUTLAND — UVM history professor Abby McGowan will consider how major political changes in India affect that country’s prospects in a talk at Rutland Free Library on March 4 at 7 p.m. Her talk, “India Rising,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays lecture series and is free…

Friday, March 6 — RUTLAND — Rutland Regional Medical Center is offering a free six-week diabetes self-management workshop at Templewood Court on Tremont Street in Rutland starting on Friday, March 6. The Diabetes Self-Management Workshop, a part of Vermont’s free Healthier Living Workshop series, is a free six-week program starting that provides practical ways to handle the…

KILLINGTON — The Killington Executive Team challenges Killington Pico Area Association member businesses to a snowman making competition. The winning business will win a complimentary pizza party and tubing. The resort has created snow creatures around the grounds, and asks businesses, “Do you wanna build a snowman?” Rules: Each business will be responsible for supplying their…

By Gerrie Russell, Killington Arts Guild While the bitter cold temperatures persist outside, the Killington Arts Guild turns its attention to warmer thoughts with its new show “Spring Promise.” An opening reception for the new show was held on Friday, Feb. 13, at the gallery. Friends, family and visitors enjoyed refreshments and the work of…

Thursday, Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. — KILLINGTON — Funk-music icon George Clinton and his band Parliament Funkadelic will appear in concert on Thursday, Feb. 19 at the Pickle Barrel Nightclub in Killington. The show is open to anyone 21 years of age and older. George Clinton has been cited as one of the foremost innovators of funk music,…

Friday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. — WOODSTOCK — There are many things one might expect to find in an 1800’s farmhouse in Vermont. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars is not one of them. The members of Africa’s most inspirational band took a month long residency in the Green Mountain State in 2013 to lay down tracks…

Friday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. — RUTLAND — The Paramount Theatre welcomes country music super-group Lonestar on Friday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. Known for merging their country roots with strong melodies and rich vocals, Lonestar has amassed RIAA-certified sales in excess of ten million album units since their national launch in 1995 and achieved ten…

Feb. 20 - 21 — QUECHEE — Join the Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) for its annual Owl Festival on Saturday, Feb. 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to celebrate all things owls! They will have a live bird program focusing on owls and their calls and adaptations, as well as an owl movie, crafts, science experiments…

Saturday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. — BRANDON — Join Brandon Music on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. for a concert of “stop-in-your-tracks” music. Zack and Sam DuPont have been described by Fay Grant of The Mountaineer as “deeply passionate old souls with a new and refreshing take on contemporary folk-pop music.” Lush finger-style guitar work is…

Saturday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. — The Irish Comedy Tour takes the party atmosphere of a Dublin pub and combines it with a boisterous, belly-laugh band of hooligans. The clover — make that clever — comedians, whose ancestors hail from the Emerald Isle, include Detroit native Derek Richards; Boston-born Mike McCarthy; Nova Scotia’s Damon Leibert;…

Friday, Feb. 20 at 7 a.m. — RUTLAND — The Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce and Rutland Economic Development Corp. will hold their annual Legislative Bus Trip to the State House in Montpelier, sponsored by Omya, Inc. This is a great opportunity to meet with the Rutland County Delegation, Governor, Lt. Governor and other state leaders or watch…