Town Hall Theater has kept busy with virtual and outdoor shows since the pandemic started last year — I especially loved the Quarantine Sessions, and Doc Lyle Sol’s Medicine Show. But oh, how we’ve missed live performances! Luckily THT has a great line-up for this spring and summer. Here’s the latest from Executive Director Lisa […]
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Kerianne Severy has a vision, and she’s ready to actualize it. She recently formed a nonprofit with plans to open an indoor playspace right here in Middlebury. It’s called Vermont Children’s Museum. Severy is a math teacher at Middlebury Union High School and a mom to two little ones. “I found it challenging to find
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A new playground will soon be installed at the old Tot Lot site near the Courthouse in Middlebury! According to Middlebury Parks & Rec Superintendent Dustin Hunt, it was originally slated to be installed last fall, but the project ran into some pandemic-related delays in production and shipping. The grand opening is now scheduled for
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Here’s a fun way to get out and explore Vermont’s state parks this summer: Participate in the 2021 Venture Vermont Outdoor Challenge. Here’s how it works: 1. Do fun outdoor activities listed on the score sheet between April 15 and October 15. 2. Make sure you (or someone else) take a photo of you completing
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Looking for some outdoor kids’ activities during next week’s school vacation? The Lawrence Memorial Library has organized an “All Around Town Treasure Hunt” from Saturday morning to Sunday evening, April 17-25. And children’s librarian Marita Schine is hosting an in-person Earth Day celebration in the library garden on April 22. Pick up a treasure map
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One of the take-home activities at Ilsley Library’s curbside pick-up last week was “elephant toothpaste” — and hoo boy was it a hit at my house. It’s basically a big foamy chemical reaction created using easy-to-find ingredients. So I thought I’d share the recipe here, in case you missed the Ilsley kit. I found instructions
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Bram Allen is eight years old and he loves horror. “I think it’s because I was born in October, and that’s when all the scary stuff happens,” he explained. When Bram learned recently that Mary Shelley only wrote Frankenstein because she and her friends were taking part in a challenge to write the scariest ghost
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This story about two local 8th-graders working to make Holocaust learning mandatory in Vermont schools was first published in the Addison Independent. In January 1945, just months before the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by American forces, 16-year-old Jewish prisoner Elie Wiesel lay silently, fearfully in his bunk as his father was beaten to death
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For the second year in a row, one of the most important holidays in the Jewish community, Passover, will be disrupted by the pandemic. “Once a year, Jews devote a whole week to recalling the events of the Exodus,” explained Sarit Katzew, the director of education at Havurah of Addison County. “One way they do
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