Edgewater artists present ‘Solitude’

In the gallery’s first large group show of the 2024 season, eight Edgewater artists have interpreted the theme of solitude.

Miles Donahue Quartet and students give free concert

‏Experience an exciting collaborative concert featuring eclectic music from classic jazz to classic rock including reharmonized standards.

The month in poetry: On waking slowly

Eyes closed at first,/ wintering inside the earth,/ black matted fur/ dampness pressing soft eyelids/ shut to outlast frost/ heaving around him.

Town Hall Theater opens the Poetry Cafe, April 21

‏A poet once wrote: ‏“Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies,
Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!”

Vergennes Opera House offers two events to celebrate the eclipse

To celebrate the upcoming solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, the Friends of the Vergennes Opera House have planned two events, one Friday evening and one Sunday afternoon.

Champlain Philharmonic hosts pre-eclipse concert in Middlebury

The Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra will perform “In the Key of Spring,” at 7:30 p.m., on Saturday, April 6 at the Middlebury Congregational Church.

Ask a Master Gardener: How to share your yard with nature

Your home landscape can be an amazing opportunity to collaborate with nature. With thoughtful plant choices, you can invite more biodiversity into your yard.

The Outside Story: Fascinating adaptations of frogs

Frogs have hopped about Earth since before the time of the dinosaurs, and it shows. Celebrated for their amphibious lifestyle and cacophonous choruses, the long arc of frog evolution has yielded other awesome and efficient adaptations in organs from their … (read more)

What if you only had one hundred days?

As the snow melts away and the early bulbs push through the crystalized dirt, we’re given a performance by the Middlebury Acting Company to help us process a question that is spring eternal: How do we make the most of the time that we have?

Four-part course on the American Musical is back

‏When Doug Anderson first taught a course on the “American Musical,” he didn’t have a lot of technology at his disposal. He had, basically, a pile of cassette tapes.

Sparrow Art Supply announces its debut show in new location

With a nod to Robert Frost’s iconic poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” seven artists explore growth, transition and renewal.

College students explore ‘risk and necessity’ of touch, pets and ribbon dancing

The Middlebury College Department of Theatre will present “The Found Dog Ribbon Dance,” a modern comedy about love and longing and the power of touch, written by Dominic Finocchiaro, directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.

Weybridge artist opens exhibit at Vt. Supreme Court Gallery

This spring the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery presents “Material Matters,” a collection of hand-colored and black and white photographic images and mixed media collage by Weybridge artist Victoria Blewer. 

Ask a Master Gardener: How to garden in a cold frame

Get a jump start on the growing season by adding a cold frame to your garden. A cold frame allows you to start some plants two to four weeks before the recommended planting time.

Pet Spotlight: Wheel

Wheel is a 4-year-old Checkered-mix rabbit who is fully litter box trained. She was adopted not long ago but returned to the shelter because she didn’t get along with the other rabbit in the home.

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