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Middlebury Is Getting An Outdoor Rink!

02.10.2021 By: Megan James

Middlebury Is Getting An Outdoor Rink!

When Maria Graham hatched the idea to build an outdoor ice rink in Middlebury just in time for the February school break, it didn’t take long to rustle up community support. 

Within a week, Graham’s coworker Janet Lapiner, who is on the ACSD Community Partnership Council’s “Joy Committee” — yes, that’s a real thing — had nailed down a location (the rec fields near Mary Hogan), found a local business to donate its labor (Silver Maple Construction) and got the local fire and water departments on board to fill the new rink with 8000 gallons of water.

Paris Farm Supply donated a plastic rink liner and Rice Lumber Supply donated the lumber.

Clearly this is a community that wants to get out and skate.

“We are definitely the last town in Vermont to put in a skating rink,” said Graham, who is the executive director of Junebug. “It really is a true community effort.”

“If the stars align,” said Graham, the rink will open this Saturday and continue to be open every day as long as the cold weather holds. As for COVID protocols, a sign will remind folks to wear masks but the rink isn’t staffed, so no one will be there counting people. It’s really a matter of common sense, said Graham. “If it looks like there are too many people there, come back another time.”

Check here for the rink schedule.

Graham has fond memories of skating on a community rink as a child in Springfield, Vt. “I grew up with this kind of community rink,” she said. “I’m thrilled to have one in Middlebury.”

Photo: A CREW FROM Silver Maple Construction — (from left) Sutton Doira, Duke Whitney and Silas Clark — constructed a new ice rink on the rec fields next to Mary Hogan School on Wednesday.

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Comments

  1. petermcarey says

    02.10.2021 at 3:20 pm

    Used to just flood the hoops courts/tennis courts at the Rec Park…70s and 80s…glad this is happening again.

  2. Anonymous says

    02.10.2021 at 5:15 pm

    Back in the day, 80’s, 90’s. There was an outdoor ice rink. At the end if the rec field. There was a warming hut there beside it also. I believe where the hut was, is now a bigger building is that has men and womans bathrooms. . I’m glad that they are bringing this back. . It was so much fun when I was a kid and teen. .

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