An evening with Sen. Patrick Leahy

Sen. Patrick Leahy, who retired from 48 years serving in the U.S. Senate last year, reflected on his life in politics at a talk at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Middlebury on May 22, 2024.

Video: Ilsley Library expansion plans

Architects are firming up plans for a $16.5 million expansion and renovation of Middlebury’s Ilsley Library, with May 7 tentatively flagged for a local bond vote. Learn more in this video.

Video: The New Haven train depot on the move

We tagged along with the moving company transporting the historic New Haven train depot from New Haven Junction to its new home on North Street, where it arrived on Thursday.

Video: Dustin Apgar becomes part of the sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epBowB9qit8 Lincoln’s Dustin Apgar died on March 27 while paramotoring in the sky near his home in Arizona. He was 41. Christopher Ross made this video of the celebration of Apgar’s life organized and hosted by his best fri … (read more)

Video: Bread & Puppet in Middlebury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTT0sMq9Uk MIDDLEBURY — Last week the iconic Vermont political puppetry troupe Bread & Puppet Theater performed in Middlebury’s Marble Works. Hannah Laga Abram captured these highlights from the show.

Video: The Great Bristol Outhouse Race 2021

https://youtu.be/ncxqIf0Z-yk BRISTOL — Despite dreary weather — and the tail end of a pandemic that almost canceled the event last year — the 44th annual outhouse race went on in Bristol. For the second year in a row, Kris Perlee hosted the race on Elm St … (read more)

Video: Gypsy moths in Monkton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uafh5Z7CZLc&t=1s MONKTON — David Brynn, executive director of Vermont Family Forests, recently gave the Addison Independent a guided tour of a section of Little Hogback Community Forest that is particularly inundated with L … (read more)

Wild Wolf Circus at Lincoln Cooperative Preschool

The kids at Lincoln Cooperative Preschool performed their biennial circus earlier this month on the deck of their building — and in their new outdoor classroom, which they used for 163 school days this pandemic year.

Video: Meet Miss Vermont

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9cZajAPc6k MIDDLEBURY — The newly crowned Miss Vermont, 22-year-old Danielle Morse, grew up in New Haven and now lives in Whiting. She has been a firefighter since she was 15 and just graduated from Castleton University’s … (read more)

Video: The THT Bee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDHB6aALjM MIDDLEBURY — A very large bee was hoisted up to the top of Town Hall Theater in downtown Middlebury earlier this week. It represents the theater’s theme for its inaugural outdoor season: pollination.

Video: Bundle Market

https://youtu.be/nSSKX_BQCXc MIDDLEBURY — On a sunny day in early May, folks emerged from the pandemic winter to enjoy the first of two outdoor markets in downtown Middlebury hosted by Bundle and Town Hall Theater. There was a food truck, local vendors an … (read more)

Video: How to charge an electric vehicle

https://youtu.be/RwUZmEjBc2I As part of our spring auto feature on electric vehicles in Vermont, Fran Putnam shows what it looks like to charge up her Nissan Leaf. 

Video: How to book a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4baPyZvfiz4&feature=emb_title VERMONT — Folks 75 and older are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in Vermont. Not sure how to make your appointment online? This video from the Vermont Department of Health will guide you … (read more)

Video: Amanda Gorman reads her inauguration poem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ055ilIiN4 Twenty-two-year-old poet Amanda Gorman read her poem, “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021.  

A snowy day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9870rO1Ug_8 Out in the neighborhood on a snow day in Middlebury.

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