Every year a team of volunteer engineers sets up an incredible toy train display at the Sheldon Museum in Middlebury just in time for the holidays. This year’s display opens Thanksgiving weekend: Friday and Saturday, November 25 & 26, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Here’s a description from the museum: The elaborate Lionel train layout at the […]
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Want to learn to figure skate? Middlebury Figure Skating offers classes for children ages 5-18, starting in November and ending with the big Ice Show in February. Registration is open now. Lessons are on Sunday mornings at Middlebury College’s Chip Kenyon ‘85 Arena. All kids are grouped according to ability and coached at the level
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Update: Astronaut Stephen Oswald will join the Town Hall Theater event via Zoom instead of in person. Want to meet a real astronaut? This is your week. Town Hall Theater, The Vermont Bookshop, Ilsley Library, and the Marquis Theater have partnered to bring the far reaches of the universe to you, from November 7-12. The
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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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