press release

Free summer recreation program extends hours, offers breakfast

WILMINGTON - Wilmington Middle School Summer Recreation is sponsoring a free extended day program for the week of Tuesday, July 5, to Friday, July 8, at the Old School Community Center. The program will include outdoor and challenge activities along with daily Japanese drumming - Taiko -...

Twin Valley Middle School Above the Influence members show off boxes at partner organization Wilmington House of Pizza. Pictured are Niko Gerding, Brayden Brown, Yolyanis Reyes, Juliette Garcey, and Emily Swanson. Also pictured are ATI advisors Keli Gould and Jen Nilsen as well as Wilmington House of Pizza staff Sawyer King and Tanya Wheeler. Photo courtesy Cindy Hayford

Zero Nada None Under 21

WILMINGTON - Five middle school students from the Twin Valley Middle School Above the Influence group participated in a Sticker Shock initiative in June. The Sticker Shock program is an awareness project to inform people about the laws surrounding underage drinking. Zero Nada None Under 21...

Lars Hunter

Preacher participates with Pride

BRATTLEBORO - The Rev. Lars Hunter, a parishioner from St. Mary’s in the Mountains in Wilmington and a recently-ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church, will be preacher and deacon for Pride Sunday this week at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church.
Hunter is the bereavement program coordinator...

Changes to Fourth of July fair

WARDSBORO - The 2022 Fourth of July street fair and parade will take place on Monday, July 4, with the street fair beginning at 9 am and the parade at 10 am.
The street fair and parade will take on a slightly different look this year. While trying to balance the normal level of fun and...

Danny DeVito and other stars come to Dorset

DORSET - Dorset Theatre Festival has added a star-studded event to its 45th season. The developmental staged reading of “I Need That” by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, will star Danny DeVito, Lucy DeVito, and Ray Anthony Thomas. The one-night-only event is scheduled for...

Fourth annual festival

Tommy Fest continues

JAMAICA - Keep the memory of Tom Morris strong. Share his love and the power of music. The fourth annual Tommy Fest will take place Saturday July 2, at 2 pm, this year featuring participants’ own original songs inspired by Tom Morris.
Want to play guitar? Banjo? Mandolin? Uke? Tuba? Tommy...

Youth perform “Shrek”

WESTON - Weston Theater Company’s 2022 Young Company production, “Shrek The Musical,” will be playing until Sunday, July 10, touring venues throughout central and southern Vermont.
Follow Shrek - that lovable, stinky ogre - on his quest to save quirky, captivating Princess Fiona from a...

Joel Veena and Mir Naqibul Islam

Rare classical instruments

PUTNEY - Next Stage’s 2021 artist-in-residence Arun Ramamurthy will return to Putney on Saturday, June 25, with Arun Ramamurthy Trio at 18 Kimball Road; and on Sunday, June 26, with Brooklyn Raga Massive, outdoors at Bunker Farm with the Bandwagon Summer series.
Saturday’s concert will...

Community classes, meals

WILLIAMSVILLE - Upcoming events at the Williamsville Hall include beginners yoga, every Tuesday at 11 am; beginners tai chi, new level one classes, every Wednesday at 11 am, starting Wednesday, July 6; community breakfasts with neighbors to meet and good food to eat on Thursday, July 21, and...

Exploring Abenaki relationships to water

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present a special opening celebration for “Nebizun: Water Is Life,” a multimedia art exhibit that explores the Abenaki relationship to water, on Friday, June 24, at 7 pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
The evening will...