Creative American dining in Charlotte
For 26 years, the people of Shelburne have enjoyed Italian-style comfort food at the mom-and-pop restaurant La Villa Bistro on Shelburne Road. Last
What’s in the Charlotte Museum?
Charmingly diverse collection brings rich history to life. It’s a heavy, round black iron ball, about the size of an orange. The ball sits silent and unmoving on the glass countertop at the Charlotte Museum.
Planning Commission considers the difficulties in preventing landscape fragmentation
The Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on May 20 to consider a permit application for a four-lot subdivision and Planned Residential Development (PRD) on a 20-acre property at 4035 Mt. Philo Road. The property is in a protected wildlife corridor between Pease Mountain and Mt. Philo. The site is near the intersection with Stockbridge Road.
Art in the outdoors
If you’re ready to bust out of your pandemic cave, two outdoor sculpture parks in Northern Vermont beckon. In addition, Shelburne Museum will have more access this year when it opens to the public on June 2. But back to the sculpture parks.
Removing wild parsnip to prevent further spread
It’s spring and it’s glorious. The chipping sparrows, white throated sparrows, robins and bluebirds have returned to the yard to feed on seed in the feeders joined by red-bellied, downy, hairy and pileated woodpeckers on the suet cakes.
Thinking about buying a car?
Are you in the market for a new or used automobile? Are you concerned about climate change and want to reduce your fossil fuel consumption? Have you been thinking about buying an electric vehicle (EV) but are anxious about the cost or about how far it can go on a charge?
Senior Center News – May 6, 2021
Another season is almost upon us: CSC’s Summer Schedule will be inserted in the next issue of The Charlotte News.
Brood—more than just chickens
Though this book is, yes, wryly funny on occasion, there is longing and sadness clucking softy between the lines.
Give us a brake, turn on your lights, do the reach
Each spring bicyclists return to Charlotte’s roads, and in this COVID year they seem to be out in greater numbers than ever. Here are some safety tips for cyclists and motorists.
Volunteers to remove aquatic invasive species and improve wetland health
Have you heard about all the non-native invasive species in Lake Champlain? These include 50 species of plants, animals and pathogens that were introduced to the Lake Champlain Basin.
Senior Center News – April 22, 2021
Life is often not as simple as we would like. Despite the announcements that senior centers in Vermont may open again, there are still many guidelines and restrictions that centers throughout the state are grappling with.
Gear up for Green Up Day 2021
Did you know that Vermont was the first state to designate a day of the year to clean up litter along the roadsides? And on that day in 1970, 51 years ago (!), participation and results far exceeded expectations.
Senior Center News – April 8, 2021
When it comes to re-opening the CSC, it looks like a little patience is still in order.
Melissa Mendelsohn: keeping your computers running
“Help, my computer’s not working” is a cry often heard as we’re all confined to our homes by Covid restrictions. “Who can I call to get it running again soon?” The name that pops up most often is Melissa Mendelsohn.
Mysteries and modern touches at Morningside Cemetery
One of Charlotte’s hidden gems is Morningside Cemetery. The cemetery is tucked into a secluded hillside off Morningside Drive a short distance from Spear Street.
Death in the forest: The profound process of tree mortality
To understand how to take care of forests, we first need to understand what they are and how they work. Within forests, one of the incredible processes that make forests work—and one that we need to learn to accept—is tree death.
The tell is in the smell
All creatures are endowed with some means of defense. Over time, ancestors of the striped skunk of New England developed a memorable and unique means of warning possible attackers. When it feels threatened, it stomps its front feet and puffs up as much as possible to suggest strongly that you cease and desist from your forward progress.
It’s spring—bring out the bats, balls and gloves
Spring is coming. For me that means the start of baseball season. It’s a game that goes back to my own youth, and it carried on over the years in Little League form through my sons.
Death in the forest: The profound process of tree mortality
To understand how to take care of forests, we first need to understand what they are and how they work. While most peoples’ understanding of them starts and ends with trees, forests are complex, dynamic communities comprised of many different organisms and the processes that affect them.
Virtual Observation Morning & Lunchtime Chat: Middle & High School
Join Lake Champlain Waldorf School’s Virtual Observation Morning followed by an informal lunchtime chat with teachers.