Posts filed under: People and Places

Margaret Woodruff and the transformation of the Charlotte Library...
Tony Blake stresses that the people he skis with through Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports are not considered clients or customers....
Spring is around the corner, and the Charlotte Grange and Charlotte Food Shelf are gearing up for another season of partnership in the Charlotte Hand-Me-Downs clothing drive....
Many people don’t consider themselves old enough to attend programming at a senior center....
Welcome to our new Advertising Manager and Board Member...
Charlotte poet Bethany Breitland keeps close the wisdom an old mentor once gave her: Don’t be a tyrant to your writings — you can’t control them like you were controlled....
A lot has changed since Nicole Conley was hired by the town of Charlotte in June of 2014 including her title and her hours....
If any heffalulmps were to be found in the 100-Acre Wood, quietly peering from behind budding crabapple trees, visitors to the 2023 Vermont Flower Show might have caught a glimpse....
Dennis Delaney says he’s not that religious. However, if it’s true that “The one who sings prays twice,” as St. Augustine is supposed to have said, then Delaney sure has...
In the late 1990s, René Kaczka-Vallière applied for a job at Boston Common Frog Pond ice rink where he used to skate. Initially, he worked as a skate guard, but...
Wake Robin, a home to about 400 older adults off Bostwick Road just north of Charlotte, has named Meagan Buckley of Richmond as president and CEO....
When Patrick Slater started making wooden toys, his hope was that baby boomers would buy them for their grandchildren. He was right about the first part. Baby boomers are some...
The Lake Champlain Basin Program recently awarded an education grant to the University of Vermont Lake Champlain Sea Grant program to create the Watershed Alliance Teacher and Researcher Partnership....
It takes time, energy and food for a seed to sprout, and it looks like one has germinated in Charlotte....
In honor of Black History Month, the Clemmons Family Farm is releasing “Two Bessies on Two Wheels,” an African-American history curriculum for grades K-5. The curriculum is available online as...
Last May composer-pianist David Feurzeig embarked on Play Every Town: 252 free concerts in each of Vermont’s 252 towns to combat climate change through the power of community and music....
Moving through the Vestry building at the Charlotte Congregational Church required a good bit of do-si-doing....
Lydia Clemmons believes she was the last of her five siblings anyone would have expected to take over the role of running her parents’ farm....
Last month we lost another child Holocaust survivor, Erika Hecht, as that generation finds its final resting place....