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  • Chester featured in presentation on creating resilient public spaces beautifully

    Chester featured in presentation on creating resilient public spaces beautifully

    By Cynthia Prairie ©2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC A stone table down a stone path on a dead end street, its backdrop a swinging bridge. A gracefully curling bench surrounded by flowering perennials. A town-owned flood area, with trees planted along the embankment. A flat expanse of land once dotted with homes is now a riverside […]

  • Regional premiere of Vermont-based play Aug. 20 in Weston

    Regional premiere of Vermont-based play Aug. 20 in Weston

    Weston Theater Company takes audiences on a moving journey about love, migration and finding home in A Distinct Society, playing from Aug. 20 through 31 at Walker Farm, 705 Main St. in Weston. Set in the unique Haskell Free Library, a real-life building that straddles the U.S.-Canada border between Vermont and Québec, the play follows […]

  • Non-Violent Direct Action Training in Chester Aug. 17

    Non-Violent Direct Action Training in Chester Aug. 17

    There is a lot going on these days: large-scale pro-democracy demonstrations all across the country, smaller weekly rallies in response to various political threats, the occasional sit-in at a municipal, state or federal building. There comes a time when passive demonstrations with clever signs are not enough to respond to escalating authoritarianism. If you are […]

  • Ludlow Rotary preps for Duck Race Aug. 16

    Ludlow Rotary preps for Duck Race Aug. 16

    Ludlow Rotary Club is gearing up for its 26th annual Ralph D. Hogencamp Memorial Duck Race down the Black River, which begins at noon on Saturday, Aug. 16. The Mount Holly Volunteer Fire Department is the beneficiary of this year’s event. The rubber duckies, purchased by individuals and businesses, will be dumped into the river […]

  • Magic Trash art program at Derry Library Aug. 15

    Magic Trash art program at Derry Library Aug. 15

    The South Londonderry Free Library, 15 Old School Road, invites kids and adults to attend a program at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 15 about the work of artist Tyree Guyton and his “Magic Trash.” Art teacher Casey Junker Bailey, who once wrote a book about recycle art with her students, will lead the hour […]

  • Pasture Pals series returns to VINE beginning Aug. 10

    Pasture Pals series returns to VINE beginning Aug. 10

    VINE Sanctuary’s free Pasture Pals program is back for five Sundays, at 201 Massey Road in Springfield, beginning on Aug. 10. It gives children 6 years of age and older the opportunity to learn from the animals themselves, instead of from books or cartoons. Please arrive on time.  Sessions begin promptly at 11 a.m.; late […]

  • Discuss disaster recovery with Doug Farnham at Newfane, Londonderry events Aug. 12

    Discuss disaster recovery with Doug Farnham at Newfane, Londonderry events Aug. 12

    As part of Gov. Phil Scott’s Capital for a Day in Windham County on Tuesday, Aug. 12, Chief Recovery Officer Douglas Farnham will be holding two roundtable sessions on disaster recovery. These events are meant to bring together staff and leadership from towns in the region to share issues and best practices for recovery and […]

  • 'A Christmas Caroler' presented at Old Parish Church in Weston Aug. 10

    ‘A Christmas Caroler’ presented at Old Parish Church in Weston Aug. 10

    Old Parish Church, Wilder Memorial Library and Little Yellow House Studio present the world premiere of A Christmas Caroler, a Dramatic Reading with Carols, written and performed by Renae Baker, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 10 at the Old Parish Church, 100 Main St. in Weston. The event is free; doors open at 6:30 […]

  • Sergeant Noah Rheaume gets a cautious reaction from a shy attendee.

    Chester’s National Night Out a big draw for families

    By Shawn Cunningham © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC While rain threatened late in the afternoon, Chester instead was graced with beautiful weather and a large turnout for its National Night Out on Tuesday night. The event took place at the Pinnacle recreation area and although it can be hard to count people in a venue […]

  • Appetizers & Mocktails with legislators Aug. 12

    Appetizers & Mocktails with legislators Aug. 12

    Residents of Windham and Windsor counties are invited to a Round Table Discussion with local legislators from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 12 at the Springfield Area Parent Child Center’s Workforce Development and Training Center, 51 Jack & Jill Lane, North Springfield. This casual, free event offers the opportunity to ask questions and […]

  • Entries wanted for Annual Local Art Show in Derry

    Entries wanted for Annual Local Art Show in Derry

    The Londonderry Art and Historical Society is looking for pieces to display in its Annual Local Art Show to be held at the Custer Sharp House, 2461 Middletown Road in Londonderry, from late-August to mid-October. Artwork can be no larger than 30 by 30 inches. Needlework, jewelry, cards and matted prints will also be accepted. […]

  • Embrace health: Whiting hosts four-week Wednesday series

    Embrace health: Whiting hosts four-week Wednesday series

    Whiting Library, 117 Main St. in Chester, presents a four-week health and wellness lecture series beginning at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday morning in August. Jade Twombly, a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and the founder of Move Holistic Health and Nutrition and the Move Grow Rise Podcast, will cover various topics, including nutrition, sleep, aging and more. […]

  • Hands-on Art Workshop at Whiting Aug. 8

    Hands-on Art Workshop at Whiting Aug. 8

    Whiting Library invites people of all ages to discover hands-on, engaging art projects with Art Lab for Kids author Susan Schwake at 1 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 8. Experiment with Orizome, a Japanese-style folding and dyeing technique used to make beautiful paper that can be used to wrap gifts, make cards and envelopes or frame […]

  • SoVerA sky viewing, potluck set for Aug. 12

    SoVerA sky viewing, potluck set for Aug. 12

    The Southern Vermont Astronomy Group will gather at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 12 at the 1879 Schoolhouse, 1862 VT-106, in Perkinsville. There will be a potluck dinner and solar and night-time telescope viewing. Solar viewing will begin at 6:30 p.m. Two or three solar telescopes will be available for use, including the Coronado 70mm […]

  • West River Coffee Barn comes to Londonderry after percolating for four years

    West River Coffee Barn comes to Londonderry after percolating for four years

    By Shawn Cunningham © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC Leaving the West River Farmers Market in Londonderry one Saturday in 2021, Kristin Nelson looked at the intersection of Routes 100 and 11 at the flashing light and thought to herself that something was needed to bring the area and the community together  — right there. “Something […]

  • Chester planners invite public for presentation on proposed solar field

    Chester planners invite public for presentation on proposed solar field

    By Shawn Cunningham © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC A large solar farm is being proposed for a cornfield off from Route 103 south, and the Chester Planning Commission is inviting the public to a presentation by the developers, Savage Solar Energy, on Monday, Aug. 11. Commission chair Hugh Quinn said the purpose of the meeting […]

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