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First some good news. The Island Line Bike Ferry is plying the Cut, 200 feet of open water between Mallet’s Bay and the open lake, allowing pedestrians and bicycles to travel from Colchester to the Champlain Islands. Years ago, trains rolled between Rutland and Montreal, crossing a swing bridge that opened to allow boat passage.
New funding and streamlined programs mean that for most Vermont households, $60 per month will pay for a comprehensive home weatherization project that will lower heating and cooling costs and make their homes more comfortable year-round. Moderate-income Vermonters who have long thought a comprehensive home weatherization project was too expensive for their budget now have reason to think again and take action.
For an outdoorsman, August can be a bit of a challenge. The lake is usually lower than the rest of the year, and the temperature of the water is only tolerable for warmwater fishing—largemouth and smallmouth bass, pike, panfish and the exotic dinosaurs, gar and bowfin. I’m not a snob but I prefer the cold clear water in the mountain streams fishing for my favorite salmonid, Salvelinus fontinalis, the brook trout.
It is difficult for many people to distinguish between sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and red maple (Acer rubrum)….
When Susan Cooke Kittredge, associate pastor at the Charlotte Congregational Church, sat down one week in February to write her sermon for that Sunday’s service, she didn’t anticipate the trouble that would follow.
All members of the Vermont House of Representatives meet at least once a day as a body during the legislative session to consider the bills on the day’s calendar. These floor sessions begin with an invocation delivered most of the time by a member of the clergy.
Happy May! Are you excited for summer reading? I love reading on vacation. But I don’t like running out of books, so I always used to end up traveling with a whole stack of books with me, which takes up quite a bit of room. While my love for hard-copy books will never go away, I have become an ebook reader convert in the last couple of years. And the biggest reason I switched: the Libby app.
As many Vermonters know, prior to European settlement Vermont was almost completely forested. In the 1800s about 80 percent of the state was clearcut, largely to create sheep pasture. Many of these pre-settlement forests were what we would now call “old growth”: forests that had developed without extensive disturbance for centuries.
Susan Ohanian sent me a commentary from Todd Smith, publisher of the Caledonian Record, a newspaper for the Northeast Kingdom counties of Caledonia, Essex and Orleans. It was something he had sent to Senator Patrick Leahy asking for help in maintaining the paper in light of the “digital duopoly of Google and Facebook.”
Did you always imagine you would have kids? How many did you think you might have? How many did you end up with (names and ages)?
En route from San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in neighboring Michoacan we…
New life is everywhere. Sometimes we have to slow down to see it: snow fleas bounding across the dirty-white canvas of melting snow or hepatica leaves peeking from beneath leaf litter.
The Champlain Valley School District, which is comprised of six schools in four towns, has one big budget that covers the needs of every school in the district. This is the second year after local schools merged to form one district and the school budget went from being a town-based issue to a district-wide vote.
I read for all kinds of reasons, sometimes for pleasure, sometimes to escape. Other times I read to learn new perspectives.
Since former Senator Bill Doyle is no longer able to conduct the Doyle Poll, a tradition of Town Meetings in Vermont, I decided to create a survey that would help me gauge the opinion of my constituents with respect to some of the issues currently under consideration by the Legislature.
The Thursday, February 21, Planning Commission agenda contained only three agenda items: a subdivision amendment for landowner Andrew Zins and sketch plan reviews for the Charlotte Library addition and for the proposed Charlotte Health Center (Mason-von Trapp application).
Many years ago, there was an opinion piece in the New York Times that has stayed with me. I have it printed out and re-read it often, and I have sent it to my children and they have, in turn, forwarded it to their own friends.
Youth Lacrosse. Players in grades 3 through 8 will participate in the US Lacrosse league and will need…
Charlotte, like any community, has seen its share of rough losses. In a small town like ours, premature death hits us hard, whether we knew the individual or not. These last few months have been no exception.
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