The Charlotte-Shelburne-Hinesburg Rotary Club will host its very popular Halloween Parade once again on Sunday, Oct 29, at 2 p.m. in Shelburne. It is the only parade of its kind in the area and draws participants and onlookers from all the adjacent towns. This is the 35th year for the Rotary’s management of this popular annual event, and they are already looking forward to greater participation this year.
Thank you to everyone who participated in Seed Library activities this year. If you grew out heritage seeds from the Library this season and are planning to save them…… great! We hope you will plant those next year and save seeds again.
Halloween in Steamboat Springs By Jorden Blucher Click to read October’s Poem of the Month
The Selectboard is looking for interested citizens to fill vacancies. Click on the story to see what positions are available.
About 150 people attended a benefit concert at The Old Lantern on Oct. 6 to benefit victims of Hurricane Irma on St. John and St. Thomas islands. Josh Panda, one of Vermont’s premier rock and roll artists, performed. About $8,000 was raised at the event for St. John Rescue and the Reform Church of St. Thomas, both of which have been providing food, supplies and support to victims of Hurricane Irma.
Audubon Vermont teacher/naturalist Gwen Causer said it’s been spectacular weather for all sorts of edible mushrooms. “The rain we had in early September is paying off now,” she said.
Please join us in preparing Thanksgiving baskets for approximately 30 Charlotte families. We’ll meet in the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry on Friday, Nov. 17, from 8 until about 10 a.m. This is a festive occasion and all are welcome. The baskets will be distributed to families in need the following morning. Please also mark your calendars for Friday, Dec. 15, same place and time, to assemble the Christmas/Holiday baskets. Bring your friends and just show up—we love the help!
Jane Williamson of Rokeby Museum contacted our historical society about items she had received pertaining to the Dean family of East Charlotte that she felt were more appropriate to our museum. Included was a remarkable portrait album in a heavy leather binding, with gilded edges and a bronze hasp and lock.
Dear CVSD community, We are off to an amazing start. The process and early outcomes of consolidating the governance of our schools to create the Champlain Valley School District (CVSD) are surpassing our hopes. While the transition has required tireless hours from the central office staff, it has been both positive and smooth. More important, we are beginning to realize the multiple opportunities from this merger, opportunities that will positively impact student learning—and that is what gets all of us excited. To better explain the learning opportunities that we are capturing, we went right to CVSD Superintendent Elaine Pinckney with some questions.
The Fox Factory 120 at Road Atlanta marked the end of the 2017 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge season; the first year of the GT4 technical specifications. Some would say the duo of Machavern and Murcott had a solid lead heading into the weekend. Others crunched the numbers and thought it too close for comfort.
State golf titles elude CVU – Both men and women Redhawk golfers came close in the Division I state championships. The men played 18 holes over the par 71 Green Mountain National course, losing to Essex by only three strokes.
Alyssa Chase from the CVU field hockey team submitted this image of her team that organized a Coaches vs. Cancer game and fundraiser for the American Cancer Society this week. The team played and ran two fundraising activities—a sale and a 50/50 raffle—during the varsity game.
CVU girls volleyball with coach Mike Detch. The team is currently 9 and 2 in the season. “We are having a fabulous season and enjoying the continually increasing level of play in the state of Vermont,” Coach Mike Detch said.
Maxine (Mickey) Davis is exhibiting fused glass work at the Charlotte Library throughout the month of October. The opening is at 6 p.m. on Oct. 18 at the library, and Davis will be there to answer questions about the artwork.
Believe it or not it’s almost that time of year again. We are about to start our tenth annual Great Diaper Drive in support of COTS Kids. Last year we were able to donate over 54,000 diapers, bringing our nine-year total to over 250,000 diapers.
Charlotter-owned Vermont Works Management Company LLC, in partnership with Big Path Capital, hosted the first Vermont Investors Summit on Oct. 16 at the new Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center.
I would not describe my childhood as uniform, it was uniformed, beginning when I entered 1st grade at St. Bernard’s Grammar School for Girls. At first I was excited to wear the plain navy-blue jumper, white blouse with Peter Pan collar, white socks and gold ribbon tie. Yet, that excitement faded with each year of wear.
The house has been clutter free for two and half weeks! No, I did not ship the boys off to boarding school. I just happened to listen to a podcast (Number 214 from the Art of Manliness) with author Caroline Webb, who wrote the book How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life. It was a fascinating interview that touched on a lot of great ideas and changed the way I run the house and how I approach each day.
The space between duck and deer season leaves me wanting to wrap myself up in a cozy blanket in front of the outdoor fire pit, sipping a glass of merlot and celebrating the north wind nipping at my nose. I can smell the lake turning over its detritus from its depths, accompanied by a bittersweet symphony of high-flying migratory Canada geese navigating by the stars.
I admit that I watched all the sessions of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Vietnam history. A young adult of the 1960s, I was there during the war and played a small a part in “Rolling Thunder” on an aircraft carrier bombing the north. But that was not the reason I found the series fascinating.