Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus but no Charlotte, Va.
Answer: Charlotte, Virginia. Question: What is not the town and state where Jim Carpenter of Charlotte, Vermont, lives? Another…
Handicap parking spot coming to town beach
On June 9, the Charlotte Selectboard approved the creation of a handicap parking space and an adjacent loading zone…
Merging Charlotte, Hinesburg middle schools contemplated
Informal conversations about the possibility of merging the Charlotte Central and the Hinesburg Community middle schools have been going…
Rhubarb rap, realizations waiting on senior center menu
As a passionate baseball fan growing up in a northern California village, although I didn’t know anyone who’d ever…
Photos from around the world featured in June art exhibit
The Charlotte Senior Center’s art exhibit for June is “On the Trail, A Collection of Photographs by Jeffrey Trubisz.”…
Library preparing for Friends of Library book sale
Fourteen people gathered at the Charlotte Library on Saturday, May 31, to explore the art of indigo dyeing. Toby…
Visitors to Vermont’s ski areas continued to grow in 2024-25
Vermont’s alpine and cross-country ski areas joined industry partners, supporters and friends at Ski Vermont’s 56th annual meeting at…
Experiencing how all things die so that others can live
As a hunter, fisherman and angler, it is of paramount importance to have a healthy view of life and…
Hildene: A Vermont historical landmark worth visiting
Perched on a hill in Manchester overlooking the Battenkill Valley lies Hildene, the Lincoln family estate. Originally built by…
Gardening mimics life with both joy and disappointment
I think I must have been about 6 years old when my father gave me a packet of seeds…
Governor and Legislature fumbling education reform
If and when the governor and Legislature agree on something they call “transformational educational reform,” it’s unlikely to be…
Suggestions for ways to spend last summer before college
With high school graduation behind us, this is the last-hurrah summer to be with friends and family before the…
CVU baseball team’s playoff run ends vs. Mount Anthony
The Champlain Valley Union High baseball team slid into the end the month of May, and it wasn’t the…
End-of-year events proliferate as summer break nears
On the morning of Friday, June 6, the cherished school’s Carnation Ceremony tradition was held in the multipurpose room….
Thanks to three volunteers from Champlain Valley Union High
The collaboration between the Charlotte Food Shelf and Champlain Valley Union High students began three years ago when food…
Thoughtful lawmaking should take time — and it is
Well, this is taking longer than expected. I’m used to adjourning to great fanfare — midnight speeches from the…
Letter to the Editor: June 12
Balint should apologize for offensive remark about immigrants To the Editor: Rep. Becca Balint’s May 28 town hall in…
Burlington progressives should oppose mayor’s privatizing
When Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency sought to take a meat cleaver to federal agencies, Burlingtonians —…
Anti-Netanyahu = antisemitism is a false equivalency
I usually write about Vermont, but even here we’re complicit in the horror being perpetrated on Gaza unless we…
Around Town: June 12
Congratulations Jadin Brown and Lily Richardson of Charlotte have been named to the Champlain College trustees’ list for the…