Santa, start your engines for the tractor parade

Move over, sleighs – Vergennes is ringing in the holiday season with its first-ever Holiday Roll Tractor Parade.

The Vergennes city council appears to be getting ready to serve a proposal to voters this coming March.

On Saturday, Nov. 8, the Seth Warner-Rhoda Farrand Chapter of the DAR held a Quilts of Valor ceremony for two local Vietnam veterans — Steve McElroy and Joanne Reynolds.

Mike Randall from the Big Blue Trunk will bring his balloon art to LuLu’s and Rocker’s Pizzeria on Saturday, Nov. 22, for two free family-friendly events.

The Champlain Valley Christian Reformed Church will host the Thanksgiving Community Hymn Sing on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 3 p.m. Proceeds and donations still benefit the All Access Project at the Vergennes Opera House.

The updated regulations allow retail uses in the city’s Historic Neighborhood District near downtown and residential uses in the city’s three-part Commercial District.

City cops in the past two weeks dealt with two separate cocaine-related cases that between them resulted in citations issued to five citizens

Vergennes voters are likely to decide in March whether the city should buy the former Boys & Girls Club building at 20 Armory Lane.

A Virginia firm will soon propose a 5-megawatt battery storage plant on a vacant Panton Road lot, a company representative told the Vergennes City Council last week.

Two funding sources could help the city of Vergennes establish a major workforce housing project off North Main Street in the city’s Northern Gateway District. 

Tessa Buskey of North Ferrisburgh placed in four horse-related events at the Eastern States Expo.

Vergennes Recreation Coordinator Martha DeGraaf says the Commodore Club, which provides after school programming, could benefit from long-term city support.

Vergennes’s expanding recreation department needs more investment to maintain its infrastructure and programming.

Bring the entire family for an afternoon of magical fun at the beautiful and historic Bixby Library on Oct. 18 at noon.

Consistent outreach to students and families helped pave the way for the first 6th-grade class at VUMS.