Around Town – April 16, 2020

Around Town – April 16, 2020

Over the years of The Charlotte News, the “Around Town” section has addressed issues that impact people and organizations of our community.
Although something we call community will likely exist, the COVID-19 pandemic will produce changes in how that community displays itself. As our representative Mike Yantachka noted in the last News issue, we are faced with the unexpected and have to “adapt our lifestyle quickly.”

Around Town – Jan. 9, 2019

Around Town – Jan. 9, 2019

to Kathryn Blume who shared her writing with patrons at the Old Meeting House in East Montpelier three days before Christmas. She was part of what Mark Nash, the former artistic director of Vermont Stage, began seven years ago and calls “Stories for a Winter’s Eve.” It features songs by local musicians as well as stories from local writers.

Around Town – Nov. 28, 2018

Around Town – Nov. 28, 2018

Former Charlotte resident Erica Heilman created a podcast titled “Rumble Strip Vermont” five years ago, and through it she has gained a wide reputation. She currently is leading a seven-part series exploring the state of mental health care around us. Erica moderates the series with episodes using personal stories from inside the state’s mental health care system to look at a variety of topics, such as home environments, parenthood (particularly of adult sufferers living at home), the community, supervised housing such as “My Pad,” how it feels to get back to normal, the role of work in recovery.

Around Town: Oct. 31, 2018

Around Town: Oct. 31, 2018

to Joseph Lasek, M.D. of Charlotte who was recently appointed co-president of the Vermont Psychiatric Association. He is also the Howard Center’s medical director of adult services and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Vermont Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry as well as Southern New Hampshire University’s graduate program in clinical mental health counseling. His career has extended to work in many mental-health settings, including corrections facilities and inpatient psychiatric units.

Around Town – Oct. 17, 2018

Around Town – Oct. 17, 2018

to Hadley Murphy, a senior at Rice Memorial High School from Charlotte, who volunteers her time to make art with hospitalized children and their families. Hadley also presented a check to Burlington City Arts in support of its Arts From the Heart program, with the intent of bringing “joy through art to patients in pediatric care.”

Around Town – Oct 3

Around Town – Oct 3

For those of us who spent any amount of time in New York City, and particularly in Greenwich Village, the passing of the Village Voice, both print and online editions, marks the end of an era, the end of a 63-year-long leading element of local journalism. According to an article in the September 23 New York Times, its demise “struck another blow to local reporting in New York.”

Around Town

Around Town

to P. Brian Machanic, a photographer, author and lecturer from Charlotte, who has been touring the state giving a presentation titled “The Art in Birding.” His most recent appearances have included the Manchester Public Library, Dead Creek Water Management Association in Addison and Eastview Community in Middlebury.

Around Town

Around Town

to Leath Tonino, author, former Charlotte resident and CVU High School grad who had a short story in the summer edition of Orion Magazine. Titled “Middle of Nowhere,” the piece takes Leath and his three friends from high school to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, not for the Burning Man festivities, “not for 60,000 humans, not for lasers and whumping bass and skyscraper flames, but for the desert’s own severe weirdness. Its isolation.”