Angela Scavo, a Middlebury mother of two and breastfeeding peer counselor, is offering virtual La Leche League meetings on the first Wednesday of every month at 10 a.m., and a virtual mama group every fourth Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. Both of these are on Zoom. Email Angela for links and more info. “Zoom is probably my least favorite way […]
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Here’s a fun way to get outside with your kids during the last few weeks of summer: The Bristol Conservation Commission has created two nature-themed bingo boards for families to complete together. You’ll find a printable PDF of the Backyard BINGO board here. There is also a Bird BINGO board — geared toward older kids
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Help the Addison County Parent/Child Center celebrate its 40th year by coming out to a pop-up drive-in movie event in the parking lot of Woodchuck Cider in Middlebury on Thursday, August 20. The movie, Night at the Museum, starts at 9 p.m., but come early for a tailgate picnic (here’s a list of local restaurants
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How are preschools approaching returning to school during the pandemic this fall? “We are going to spend the first six to eight weeks outdoors, since transmission of COVID-19 is lower in outdoor spaces,” Ashley Bessette, program director of Evergreen Preschool in Vergennes, told the Addison Independent last week. In addition to their routine activities, she
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We were sitting in the car at A&W, waiting for milkshakes — while our daughters wreaked havoc in the way back — when my husband said, “I think we should think about homeschooling.” It was back in July. Back before we knew about Mary Hogan’s hybrid plan for the fall. When all we had was
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Starting August 12, Ilsley Public Library’s Outside Pickup Service (pictured earlier this spring) is moving inside. The new hours will be Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with an additional evening shift on Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The pickup process will remain the same: You request the materials online, receive
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Create a simple play with just a few action words. Materials: Index cards or slips of paper or cardboard (cut-up cereal boxes work well) Writing tools Directions: Use your imagination to brainstorm lots of those “ i-n-g” action words: running, jumping, sliding, walking, hopping, yawning, sleeping—you can see where this is going. Write one on
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Do your kids need school supplies this fall? Drop by one of four locations in Addison County next week to pick up backpacks filled with supplies for the school year — for free. Each year United Way of Addison County stuffs some 400 backpacks with pens, pencils, notebooks, binders and other supplies and distributes them
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Want to learn some magic this summer? Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol is offering online sessions with Tom Verner of Magicians Without Borders through the end of August. Kids will practice magic tricks with Verner (who you might know from his many performances at Middlebury’s Festival on the Green) and prepare for a magic “performance”
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