Vergennes Day kicks off its 39th year on Friday, Aug. 27, with a street dance in City Park featuring the music of “The Hitmen” from 7-10 p.m. The weekend’s activities, hosted and sponsored by the Addison County Chamber of Commerce, City of Vergennes and area businesses, is a celebration of the city and community to […]
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Worried about what the Delta variant means for your unvaccinated children as they head back to school? You’re not alone. Earlier this week UVM Children’s Hospital hosted a Q&A on Facebook Live with Dr. Rebecca Bell, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics Vermont Chapter (and mom of two daycare-age children) and the hospital’s Chief
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The United Way of Addison County is again spearheading its Stuff the Bus program, aimed at providing area students the proper school supplies needed for a successful academic year. Thanks to the community’s incredible generosity, the United Way was able to fill more than 500 backpacks last year with new pens, pencils, notebooks, crayons, binders
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This Saturday is going to be a big one in downtown Middlebury. Foolaroo, a free community-wide celebration, will feature world-class circus arts performers, live music, sidewalk sales, Middlebury Money giveaways, and free offerings and activities from Neighbors, Together. This event, produced by many partners, culminates the multi-year Middlebury rail-bridge construction project, and signals the rebirth
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Following a year’s hiatus, the Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green brings fabulous music back to the heart of Middlebury, Aug. 2 through 6. One change this year: There are only evening concerts. The Brown Bag lunch concerts will return next year. But it sounds like it will be worth pushing back bedtime a little to catch
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Last week I took advantage of Middlebury’s new e-bike lending library and borrowed a bright orange RadWagon cargo bike with electric assist for three days. It was so much fun. And completely free. The lending library is a collaboration between Local Motion, Middlebury Safe Routes and Frog Hollow Bikes, and it is running through the
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Here are some options — new and old — for enjoying a meal with kids outside in Addison County.
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I want to pay tribute to a local program that helps make reading a very special, daily event for many families with young children: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Since 2007, Addison County Readers has worked with the Imagination Library to send more than 150,000 books to Addison County’s newest little residents. I recently learned that
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*This has been postponed due to forecasted rain. Stay tuned for a new date!* The Addison County Parent/Child Center is throwing another drive-in movie fundraiser! Come see the ’80s classic The Goonies in the parking lot of Woodchuck Cider in Middlebury at sundown on Thursday, July 8. The PCC is suggesting a donation of $25 a vehicle.
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