Climate change will be focus of ESI College summer series

For more than 20 years, Elderly Services has been offering an array of community programs featuring local experts, various Middlebury College professors, authors and others through our Lifelong Learning program, ESI College.

Neil Silins of Brandon has been awarded the Vermont Arbor Day award by the Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program, which recognizes an individual who has made a significant difference in his or her community’s urban and community forest.

All are welcome to the Monkton Historical Society’s presentation this month at the Town Hall Community Room on Monday, May 20, starting at 7 p.m.

This week’s news is a friendly reminder that my favorite time of year is upon us. Lincoln’s Annual Town Wide Yard Sale to benefit Weathervane United, Inc. will be on Saturday, May 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine.

A new interactive map shows Vermonters where invasive pests are hitting the Green Mountain State hardest.

A young woman from Bridport was among the Vermont delegation at the 2024 National 4-H Conference, which provided a platform for 4-H teens to engage in conversation with federal agencies on important issues that can impact their future from climate change … (read more)

A Vermont non-profit organization called ReSOURCE, which has offices in Burlington, Barre and Hyde Park, is bringing its six-week, hands-on “Weatherization 101” training to Middlebury this summer. This six-week training starts July 1.

As warmer weather beckons Addison County residents outdoors this spring, there’s an uninvited guest they should keep watch for in their gardens, lawns and fields: jumping worms.

The absence of an approved FY’25 spending plan pushes SVUUSD closer to the prospect of having to borrow funds to at least begin the next budget cycle, which begins July 1.

School district leaders have screened all the applicants for coming principal vacancies at three elementary schools; students, their families and school staff can meet the candidates this week.

Bob Ortmyer has worked as interim president and COO at Middlebury’s Porter Medical Center since this past September. Now he will lead the southern region of UVM Health Network.

There is no question about one element of the 50-megawatt solar array that is proposed for land west of Route 22A in Panton. At 300 acres, mostly now farmland, it would be big — Vermont’s largest. 

It’s normal for any parent to worry about what their child’s life will look like after leaving the nest. But for the parents of individuals with developmental disabilities, that question is one filled with frightening uncertainty as they contemplate where … (read more)

Richard Ruane and Andrea Chesman took a moment last week to harken back to the early 1990s, a time before the Town Hall Theater and the Vergennes Opera House, when live entertainment in Addison County largely consisted of sporadic seasonal concerts — such … (read more)

Residents in the Mount Abraham Unified School District will have several opportunities next week to share their budget-related feedback with district officials.