While plenty of students look forward to heading home for the summer after finally closing their books in Davis and throwing down their pens after their last final, a large cohort anticipate spending their annual hiatus from academics right here in the Green Mountains.
Vermont Cookie Love, a franchise known for its delicious baked cookies, cookie dough and creemees, is set to open a new location at 40 Main Street in Middlebury in the fall, where the bakery Chim Chimney formerly had a home.
In her book “Mother, Creature, Kin,” local Rochester, Vt. author Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder weaves threads of motherhood, ecology, and spirituality together to explore what it means to raise a child in a world facing profound environmental and existential challenges. On April 8, Steinauer-Scudder ...
The Town Hall Theater in Middlebury hosted a community forum titled “Impact of Federal Actions on Vermont” on Saturday, April 16. The forum aimed to address the piling questions about the Trump administration and its potential impact on Vermont. The event was free and open to the public. While the ...
The Middlebury Marquis announced on March 31 that it would temporarily close for its renovation project until May 1. The project will focus on exterior aesthetics, creating a vintage-inspired facade for the front of the theater featuring bold colors, bright lights and other art deco-inspired elements. ...
Vermont is weighing a controversial plan to trap and remove beavers from 21 state-owned dams in order to mitigate blockages and ensure infrastructural integrity.
Residents of Vergennes, Vt. gathered in front of the Bixby Public Library on Saturday, April 12 to protest nationwide funding cuts to public libraries. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 14 significantly shrinking the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which provides ...
On Saturday, April 5, an estimated 400 people gathered in downtown Vergennes along Main Street outside City Park as part of the approximately 1,300 nationwide Hands Off! protests against the Trump administration. Beginning around noon, the protest lasted roughly two hours through wind and rain. At its ...
After 25 years of local skaters practicing their flips and kicks turns in a skatepark with simple wooden and metal features, the town of Bristol, Vt. is fundraising to start construction on a new and improved 12,000-square-foot concrete skatepark.
Recent cuts to the Department of Education by the Trump administration have shaken local school districts across the country, reaching Addison County schools that have faced declining student enrollment and currently rely on federal funding for a variety of purposes. Superintendents of local school ...
In a move to consolidate land and timber rights, the Vermont State Department of Fish and Wildlife has sought to acquire a large parcel of land on Snake Mountain to open for public use and recreational purposes. Snake Mountain Wildlife Management Area currently spans the mountain ridge along the town ...
As real Vermonters know all too well, spring comes in two waves: First, “false spring,” tempting those who don’t know better than to put their winter clothes back in storage. But then — as we were reminded this past weekend — a few inches of snow extinguishes those hopes. During this waiting ...
To celebrate its students’ broad range of instrumental and vocal talent, the Middlebury Community Music Center (MCMC) hosted Bloom and Grow, a pay-what-you-can benefit concert, on Friday, March 28. Proceeds from the concert supported the non-profit’s student scholarship fund, improving accessibility ...
For the past five years, the Vergennes Opera House has been working on the All Access Project, which aims to make the historic building accessible to everyone. The project was originally planned to address the absence of an elevator, but its scope has since expanded to include additional accessibility ...
Approximately 125 Middlebury residents gathered for their annual town meeting on Monday, March 3, where they voted in favor of a $14,548,535 budget for the 2026 fiscal year. Of this year’s 10 articles, four were voted on directly in the meeting and the other six were voted on in a ballot election ...
Vermonters are known for being welcoming, but not to everyone — and if there is one thing they are protective of, it’s their ski mountains. When Vice President J.D. Vance arrived at Sugarbush Ski Resort in the Mad River Valley with his family for a ski vacation this past weekend, he was met by over ...
Little Seed Coffee Roasters hosted a tournament style Latte Art Throwdown on Feb. 28 to raise money, in tandem with other local businesses, for the Middlebury Skatepark Project.
Nestled in Middlebury’s Marble Works District, Otter Creek Used Books prioritizes the old-fashioned, brick-and-mortar shopping experience. The bookstore receives book donations from all over Vermont, with donors driving from as far away as Burlington to drop books off in Middlebury. After each ...
The Town Hall Theater will host the first Middlebury Rave on Friday, March 7 from 8 p.m. to midnight, featuring global music, visual projections, dancing and a bar. The event aims to create an immersive, high-energy experience for attendees, blending electronic music with a dynamic visual atmosphere. ...
While The Arcadian, a modern Italian restaurant in Middlebury known for its handmade pasta, no longer operates full-time, it makes a special guest appearance — popping up, you might say, — for two evenings a month in Haymaker Bun Co.’s space on 7 Bakery Lane, where the two businesses formerly ...