MOOSE ARE MORE likely to be crossing the road at this time of year, so keep your eyes open to avoid collision. photo VTF&W/Benjamin Young
MONTPELIER — Drivers need to be alert and cautious because moose are on the move, according to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.
LYNN LUGINBUHL AND Morris Earle pause for a photo in front of Moiry Galcier in Switzerland. At an Oct. 24 talk in Middlebury, they will share stories and photos from a 300 mile Alpine hike.
MIDDLEBURY — The Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf section will host a special fall program Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m.
THIRD- AND FOURTH-graders from Addison Central School recently received dictionaries from the Vergennes Lions Club members Susan Hayes, president, Kathy Dorman (with vest) and Larry Simino. Photo courtesy Larry Simino
VERGENNES — Continuing the tradition started three years ago, the Vergennes Lions Club last week delivered student dictionaries to third- and fourth-graders at Addison Central School, and third-gra
CLAUDETTE LAWTON PATS her Morgan horse, UVM Finnegan, at the Salisbury stable where she boards him. The duo, ages 80 and 22, are members of The Dressage Foundation’s Century Club, which recognizes a horse and rider whose combined age is at least 100. Independent photo/Russell Jones
GOSHEN — “Dressage” is a French term most commonly translated as “training.” It is a highly skilled form of horse riding where the rider shows their mastery by having the horse perform a series of
Independent file photo/John S. McCright
MIDDLEBURY — Hay bales, festive games and creative costumes galore! It’s almost time for the 12th Annual Middlebury Spooktacular, on the town green in downtown Middlebury.
ADDISON — On Saturday, Oct.
AN ORIGINAL, 1926 poster from F.W. Murnau’s “Faust” teases a story of how a demon tempts a righteous man. It will be shown just before Halloween, on Oct. 25 at Brandon Town Hall.
BRANDON — It’s been a novel, a stage play and an opera.
GAWKERS GATHERED AROUND for the pie-eating contest at the Bristol Harvest Festival on the Bristol green. Edward Hipson won the no-hands eating contestant.
BRISTOL — Two signature fall events drew large crowds to Bristol in late September
This is Fergie. He is a one-year-old red Havanese boy filled with energy, love, and incredible smartness.
WEYBRIDGE AUTHOR DOUG Wilhelm stands with a local man in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2007. The fort behind them was built by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C. and is known as the Citadel of Alexander. Wilhelm will give a talk and reading of his latest book, “Street of Storytellers” at the CVUUS in Middlebury on Sunday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. Courtesy photo
WEYBRIDGE — As a young adult novelist, Doug Wilhelm knows that if you don’t pull the reader in right away, “your done.” Nothing is different about the way he starts his 17th and newest book, “Stree
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