Tazmanian Devils RC Winter Benefit Dance
Come Join Us at The Old Lantern Inn & Barn on December 7, 2018 for our Winter Benefit Dance!
Celebrate The Arts Night at CVU
Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg will be hosting its eleventh annual Celebrate The Arts Night on December 13th.
Gather up your broken, ripped, wobbly, squeaky, dull, unworkable and otherwise unhappy items….
The Repair Café is returning to the Charlotte Congregational Church for its third round on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
So you’ve never been and are wondering what is a Repair Café?
Harvest season means East Charlotte tractor parade
Carrie Spear created this annual event 18 years ago, and it has grown over time to the point where tractor drivers come from around New England and New York to display their old and new vehicles to over a thousand observers along Spear Street.
Public Safety Fun Fair at Fire and Rescue
On Saturday, Sept. 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Charlotte Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services welcomes the public for a day of fun and education for all ages. Residents of Charlotte and neighboring towns are invited to visit with public safety providers from a variety of organizations, watch live demonstrations that will include CPR, vehicle extrication, fire demonstrations, and much more.
Town Link Trail underpass opens for business
About 70 people turned out to enjoy live music, great food, neighborhood camaraderie and the ribbon cutting ceremony at the new underpass under Route 7 on the Charlotte Town Link Trail. Charlotters of all ages arrived by foot and by bike to participate in the grand opening. Laurie Thompson, co-chair of the Trails Committee, Lane Morrison, chair of the Selectboard, and Clark Hinsdale, who initiated the idea of the underpass with the State of Vermont many years ago, all spoke at the ceremony before the ribbon cutting. Several local farms and businesses donated food for the event.
Calendar of Events – Sept 22 through Oct 6
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Masterworks featuring Peter Serkin at 7:30 p.m., Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. The VSO’s 84th season opens with VSO Music Director Jaime Laredo leading the VSO in an intensely beautiful work by George Walker, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Kelly Brush ride set for Sept. 8
The 13th Annual Kelly Brush Ride, powered by VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations, is set to roll on Sept. 8 in Middlebury, bringing hundreds of riders through Charlotte as they ride the 100-mile “century” and the 85-mile routes. A total of about 500 riders are expected to complete one or the other loop.
Calendar of events September 5 – October 2
September 5 – Free tobacco cessation program to begin at Porter Medical Center. Let’s quit! You don’t have to do it alone!
Underpass on Town Link Trail Opens
The Charlotte Trails Committee invites all to attend the Grand Opening Celebration of the Underpass on the Town Link Trail on Saturday, September 8 at 11:00.
11th Annual “Tour de Farms” bike ride to take place in Vergennes
ACORN’s 11th annual Tour de Farms is happening on Sunday, Sept. 16. One of Vermont’s oldest cycling farm tours has released the list of farms for the Tour’s first-ever route in Vergennes.
Calendar of Events – Aug 25 – Sep 22
August 25 – The 37th annual Vergennes Day at City Park in Vergennes from 10 a.m.–3 p.m., with a street dance the night before from 7 to 10 p.m. featuring The Hitmen.
End of summer outings
Tour de Farms is coming to Charlotte on Sunday, Sept. 16. The 11th annual fundraiser supports local agriculture and food-centered poverty programs.
Sixth annual race, sponsored by Royal Savage Yacht Club and Point Bay Marina, draws 22 boats
A light rain was falling early on Saturday, August 18, as boats and sailors gathered at Point Bay Marina in Charlotte for the sixth annual Diamond Island Regatta. It was a cool, overcast, blustery morning, with a stiff wind from the north blowing down Lake Champlain.
Calendar of Events – August 12 – September 22
August 12 Rokeby Museum pie and ice cream social. Having a great day is as easy as pie at…
Kids Cook VT runs a pop-up café in Charlotte
On the first day of August, campers from Kids Cook VT ran a Kids Cook pop-up cafe at the Charlotte Congregational Church. Kids Cook VT is a summer camp where kids donate what they cook to various service organizations that support people who are food insecure.
Author Judy Chaves shares secrets of Mt. Philo
A full house welcomed local author Judy Chaves to the Charlotte Grange Hall on Friday evening for a presentation about her new book and book signing. Judy, the author of Secrets of Mount Philo, A Guide to the History of Vermont’s First State Park, held the attention of her audience as she related the history of the park and talked about the principles responsible for its creation and the now well-traveled road up the mountain.
Calendar of Events July 26, 2018
July 26 & 27 – Join the Hour-Glass Youth Theatre for its exciting new production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The play follows a young woman and her best friend as they flee a society in ruins from conflict and an imbalance of power.
Kids Cook Vermont is a summer camp that gives back
Rachel Stein, Adele Holock and Deirdre Holmes are excited to be launching the Kids Cook VT summer camp next month. Two one-week camps will run from July 30 to August 3 and then from August 6 to 10. Their hope is to engage about 10 to 12 children each week.
Calendar of Events for July 2018
Amy Siskind, author of the bestseller The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year, speaks from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at Shelburne Vineyard, 6308 Shelburne Road, about how we defend our democracy against daily assaults on marginalized communities, women and all of us.