City eyes youth club building for kids & more

The Vergennes City Council last week backed two agreements that tie the city’s immediate — and possibly its longtime — future to the property at 20 Armory Lane now owned by the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes.

It was a financial crisis that led the board of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes to announce on March 17 it would suspend the club’s operations after Friday, March 28.

After the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes announced last week that it will go on hiatus, an at-least-short term alternative has quickly emerged to fill the afterschool void for city-area families.

The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes has selected Megan Mentzer, a senior at Vergennes Union High School, as the 2025 Club Youth of the Year. Mentzer will compete against other Vermont Boys and Girls Clubs in April at the State Level Youth of the Ye … (read more)

Back on July 5, 1999, the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes first opened its doors under the guidance of founder Sam Allo. It was then based in the Vergennes National Guard Armory on Monkton Road.

Collins Aerospace in Vergennes had a bike-building event on Wednesday, May 3. Eleven teams of four people raced to assemble twelve bikes purchased by Collins.

As Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes Club CEO Alicia Grangent tells it, most things have gone well in the 11 months since she took over as the leader of the city youth club despite the financial uncertainty of running a nonprofit.

The Vergennes Day Race Committee on Sept. 19 presented the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes with a donation of $4,500 generated out of proceeds from the road races the committee sponsors annually on Vergennes Day.

Four Addison County programs will net $650,000 in federal grants to give more children access to summer and afterschool programs during the next two summers and the 2022-2023 academic year.

ALICIA GRANGENT VERGENNES — The newest chief executive officer of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes is a city resident who has spent most of a career spanning about two-and-a-half decades working with youth. Alicia Grangent, a 47-year-old nat … (read more)

A sophomore at Vergennes Union High School, Collin has been an active member of the club since he was in 7th grade.

VERGENNES — The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes has received $22,987 from the Summer Matters for All Grant program to help fund its summer programming, club CEO Kat Nelson confirmed late last week.The grant will help pay salaries for club staff who … (read more)

VERGENNES — Rocketry. Woodworking. Arts and crafts. Ice cream making. Painting. Sports. Rope climbing.It’s all on the menu for area 4th- through 8th-graders this summer, offered in weekly chunks every morning in-person at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater … (read more)

VERGENNES — The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes is thrilled to announce Zachary Botala is its Youth of the Year.A VUHS senior, Botala has been coming to the club since he was 10 years old and most recently has acted as a mentor to younger youth.“We … (read more)

VERGENNES – Homeward Bound and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes have partnered to offer humane education to the Club’s members, ranging in age from 9-18, after school each Thursday. The pilot program runs through April. Homeward Bound’s Execut … (read more)