Think like a local: Try a Vermont staycation!

Like many Vermont residents, my wife Dottie and I try to budget each year for a weeklong winter sojourn with one prerequisite: It must be somewhere warm to recharge the internal battery amid unrelenting cold temps and falling snow here in the Northeast.

There are a lot of things you can do outside during the summer in Vermont. There’s swimming, gardening, biking, hiking, golfing, fishing, boating, barbequing … Oh so many good things.

Planning to pick your own fruit this summer? Let’s review some pick-your-own fruit etiquette to keep in mind when you go.

The Vergennes Farmers Market soon will embark on an exciting new season, brimming with fresh changes and enhancements that reflect the city of Vergennes’s commitment to enriching our community experience.

Those large yellow buoys you may see floating atop Lake Champlain aren’t for monitoring the weather, nor are they for decoration. Instead, they mark the final resting places of centuries-old ships that wrecked on the lakebed.

Champlain Valley is a great place to hop on your bike and tool around. There are plenty of hills to make it challenging, but there are also flat spots where you can catch your breath and soak up the views.

The University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm is a unique, timeless place. Its mission is to preserve and promote the Morgan breed, and to provide hands-on educational experiences to students and the public.

Almost every summer since 1947, the people of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on the Green in downtown Middlebury have staged huge yard that covers a large part of the lawn and gazebo and, except for during the pandemic, reached into the church basement an … (read more)

A summer tradition continues in Bristol this summer as it has for many summers. Many, many summers.

The Sunray Peace Village of Lincoln will host the 40th Annual Native American Elders and Youth Gathering this summer on July 26 through July 28. This year’s theme is “Earth Awareness: How Our Hearts Resonate with the Voice of Myriad Galaxies.”

Summertime this year in Bristol will be filled with food trucks, festival music and the return of two familiar events. 

Whether you plan on walking to the top of Mount Abraham, the highest peak in Addison County, or just want to take a ramble in the woods, summer is a great time to get outside and enjoy nature by hiking.

This summer the library will host the “Reasons to be Cheerful” series Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. from July 11 to Aug. 29.

While the warm summer sun shining and thoughts of solar energy are not far from many people’s minds, Vergennes in mid-July will be the site of an expo designed to educate people about ways to power our modern lifestyle without polluting the planet.

While you are out and about this summer enjoying some fun in the sun, you are likely to work up an appetite. Fortunately there are plenty of farmers market in the area that are great in several ways.