VERGENNES — The Addison Northwest School District will host two voter information meetings on Monday, Nov. 4 — the night before elementary school-closure votes in Addison and Ferrisburgh.
MIDDLEBURY — A 14-member committee has begun the search for a new Middlebury Union High School principal whom they hope to appoint this coming January.
THIS IMAGE FROM the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows zebra mussels clinging to a native mussel.
LEICESTER — The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Lakes and Ponds Program has confirmed the presence of adult zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha), an aquatic invasive
MARIE AUDET OF Bridport’s Blue Spruce Farm is a founding member of the Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition.
PANTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week launched a multi-year study to examine how much conservation projects are improving water quality in two Addison County watersheds.
FARMER GRANT RECIPIENT Jordan Kramer of Winnegance Oyster Farm in Maine will share his experiences with the program in an Oct. 23 webinar hosted by the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.
BURLINGTON — The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program is seeking applications for 2020 Farmer Grant projects. Proposals are due online by Dec. 3 at 5 p.m.
BRANDON — The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources is taking public comment on its 2019 Draft Otter Creek Tactical Basin Plan.
MIDDLEBURY — RiseVT has awarded The Blueprint for Health, in partnership with Porter Hospital, a $1000 grant to offer free cooking classes as part of the Blueprint’s Diabetes Prevention Program.
JOY MINNS, IN red, Rena Trepanier, and Susan Ferland from the DAR Seth Warner/Rhoda Farrand Chapter and Maureen Labenski, left, from Green Mountain Chapter, get to work at the Bixby evaluating the Strong box’s contents. Courtesy photo
VERGENNES — In 2017 the Vermont State Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) embarked on a joint project with Bixby Library in Vergennes to conserve specific Samuel Strong papers found
AKOL AGUEK, ONE of the Lost Boys of Sudan and currently an International Student Advisor and Designated School Official at the University of Vermont, will present his life story at Lawrence Memorial Library on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m.
BRISTOL — In 2001, 40 young Sudanese refugees were welcomed to Burlington. They represented a few of the estimated 17,000 Lost Boys of Sudan.
LINCOLN — The fire departments in our five-town area will once again open their station doors for the annual Fill the Firehouse Food Drive on Saturday, Oct. 26.
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