Sugar maple and red maple
It is difficult for many people to distinguish between sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and red maple (Acer rubrum)….
After threats and fear, Charlotte Congregational Church works on moving forward
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.
E Pluribus Unum
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.
Meet Libby, and book recommendations from Charlotte librarians
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.
The New “Old Growth”
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.
Journalism could be on the brink of disaster
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.”
Mothers at The Charlotte News
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)?
Encountering the magnificent monarchs
En route from San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in neighboring Michoacan we…
Sign of spring
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.
No major changes at CCS, but the Quonset hut could be on its way out
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.
Three memoirs you should add to your spring reading list
I read for all kinds of reasons, sometimes for pleasure, sometimes to escape. Other times I read to learn new perspectives.
Your opinion matters
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.
On To the Next Phase
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).
Letters to the Editor
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.
Charlotte Rec News – Spring Program Guide
Youth Lacrosse. Players in grades 3 through 8 will participate in the US Lacrosse league and will need…
Does death have a bright side?
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.
Publication Dates
The News welcomes your submissions. We are a paper for Charlotters by Charlotters! Email Chea Waters Evans today!…
Around Town – Jan. 23, 2019
to former Charlotte residents Becca von Trapp Muller and her husband, Rye Muller, on the birth of their second son, Oakley Orion Muller, on October 16, 2018.
Discussions continue on Mason–Von Trapp sketch plan
The Jan. 3 Planning Commission meeting focused primarily on the Mason–Von Trapp sketch plan agenda item, with Chair Peter Joslin opening with an explanation of the intent of the sketch plan discussion: to listen to the ideas put forth by the applicants with a resulting recommendation from the commission. After nearly two hours of discussion from various meeting attendees, the commission scheduled a follow-up site visit and will include the item on a future agenda in February.
Food Shelf News
We wish Happy Holidays to the generous Charlotte community. Fitting for the season, our list of special thanks…