Community Events

Partnerships with farmers

VERMONT- The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program has released its 2021 call for partnership grants.
The Partnership Grant program funds projects that work in direct partnership with farmers to encourage innovative solutions to current sustainability challenges...

Insurance rates drop

VERMONT- Gov. Phil Scott announced that Vermont businesses will see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance in 2021. This is the fifth straight year workers’ compensation rates have decreased, and, when combined with decreases from 2017-2020, Vermont employers will pay an...

New England boiled dinner

HALIFAX- Friday, March 19, is the senior meal held at the Halifax Community Hall at 20 Brook Road.
It is still pick-up only. Pick-up is between 11 am and 1 pm. Menu includes New England boiled dinner, corned beef, cabbage, carrots, potato, onion, turnip, Irish soda bread, and dessert. A...

PenPal Your Neighbor

WINDHAM COUNTY- “PenPal Your Neighbor,” a project in connecting residents through the written word, is launching this month.
The project will connect Windham County residents with a pen pal from within the county. Participation is free. Participants will receive the name and mailing...

Themed poetry contest for military kids

VERMONT- To celebrate the power of youth in changing the future, Military Kids Vermont and University of Vermont Extension 4-H have teamed up to sponsor a poetry contest for children ages 5 to 18.
The contest is being held in conjunction with April as the Month of the Military Child, an...

Bennington Museum open to public

BENNINGTON- On Friday, April 2, Bennington Museum will be opening to the public once more after a three-month winter hiatus. Spring hours of operation will be Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from 10 am to 4 pm. The museum library will be open to visitors, free of charge, from 1 pm to 4 pm on...

Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt.

The Vermont Jazz Center hosts Pelt

BRATTLEBORO- The Vermont Jazz Center will present trumpeter Jeremy Pelt in a live-stream show featuring his working quintet on Saturday, March 20, at 8 pm. He will be performing music from his most recent album, “Griot - This is Important!” Joining Pelt will be the performers featured on this new...

“The Last Five Years” by Jayne Bernardi and Molly Delaney.

Keene State College presents musical

KEENE, NH- “The Last Five Years,” a musical by Jason Robert Brown, will be presented Tuesday to Saturday, March 30 to April 3, by the Keene State College Department of Theatre and Dance.
Directed by Kirstin Riegler, Keene State Associate Professor in Acting/ Musical Theatre, the musical...

Five new exhibits opening at BMAC

BRATTLEBORO- Five new exhibits open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on Thursday, March 18, including an exploration of flowers as a way to mark loss; new work by Jennifer Mack-Watkins that, in the artist’s words, “(uses) aesthetics as a form of resistance against the erasure and...

Coaches sought for Girls on the Run

VERMONT- Girls on the Run Vermont’s spring coach registration is open and seeking additional coaches.
Girls on the Run is a physical activity-based, positive youth development program that inspires girls in third through eighth grades to be joyful, healthy, and confident. The eight-week...