Everybody Wins! mentors are needed at Mary Hogan School for the 2022-2023 school year. Do you have an hour a week to share with a 3rd or 4th grade child in your community? Do you love children and books? Everybody Wins! Vermont would love to hear from you. Everybody Wins! is working to rebuild the […]
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My 5-year-old keeps asking me if Halloween is just one day. I mean, technically, yes: It’s October 31. But she must be picking up on a deeper truth: That the joy of Halloween begins the day the 10-foot skeletons and front-yard graveyards appear, which in our neighborhood is October 1. This year the 31st falls
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How’s your costume coming along? Any time now before Halloween, you can snap a pic and submit it to ECHO’s Facebook page for a chance to win tickets to ECHO’s 3D movie theater. (Send you photo via Facebook messenger or tag @echovt in a post.) There will also be an in-person photo area at ECHO
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In an effort to better understand the systemic barriers and inequities that affect the quality of life for people in Middlebury, the town is hosting a series of community conversations this month, and we’re all invited. The conversations will take place in the evening hours in the Ilsley Library Community Meeting Room or the Middlebury
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Our local history museum is hosting a fundraiser this Friday evening — and there are some excellent items up for auction. Folks can buy tickets to attend the family-friendly outdoor shindig (which includes live music by Atom and the Orbits, a barbecue, bar and live auction), or just bid on the goods online. Here are
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Burlington Taiko drummers will do a series of free shows and workshops, plus a parade, in Middlebury at the end of September.
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Have you spotted local artist Matt Heywood’s beautiful new mural on the wall behind Middlebury’s new Amtrak platform? The painting in progress is a celebration of Vermont’s state flower, the red clover. Elsewhere in Middlebury, a different local artist, Michael Kin, has been getting to work beautifying an exterior wall of Mary Hogan Elementary School. You may have
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Addison County Fair & Field Days is here! Come for the merry-go-round, stay for the animal shows, maple cotton candy, fried dough, magic shows, pig races, sheep shearing, bike stunt shows and much, much more. Daily admission is $13/anyone 12 and older; $5/children ages 6-11; free for children 5 and under. Want to plan out
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Where’s Waldo? In Middlebury, of course! The iconic children’s book character in the red-and-white-striped shirt and black-rimmed specs is visiting seventeen local businesses throughout our community this July. Celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2022, Find Waldo Local is a great summer vacation activity and a wonderful way to support local businesses, including the Vermont Book Shop, Frog Hollow
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