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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Walking through the Bristol woods this summer, hikers may find themselves straying into a story. In a collaboration between the Bristol Recreation Club and the Lawrence Memorial Library called Bristol StoryWalk, four different children’s books will accompany explorers along various sections of the Bristol Trail Network throughout the summer. Bristol Recreation Club intern Jenny Sogin
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