Empty Bowl dinner

Seeking Movers and Groovers

Choreographer and community artist Ashley Hensel-Browning is currently looking for people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in an intergenerational dance group based in Springfield. Participants will take class, learn, and make dances with each other, exploring how movement can be used as a source of expression and connection across generations. Together we will create original works that will be shared in future dance concerts. Dancers of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds are desired.

Killarney's Honors Veterans

In what is to become an annual event, Killarney’s Irish Pub in Ludlow is offering a free meal of corned beef and cabbage to veterans, those currently serving and those that have served in the past, on Veterans Day. A total of 22 veterans were fed by Killarneys this past week, including my husband and myself.

GMUHS Presents: Up The Down Staircase

This past weekend The Green Mountain High School Drama Club returned to the stage with their fall production of “Up The Down Staircase.”

View From The Pressbox-A Weekly Commentary On Sports

Despite a tough year for his Bellows Falls Union High School football team, it must have been a nice ending to the season for coach Bob Lockerby, who not only coached the South squad to a win in the eighth annual Vermont Senior Bowl, (see story and photos below), but he also got to coach his son David in football for the first time, who is a senior defensive back for nearby Vermont Academy in Saxtons River.

Black River's Soccer–Scoring Machine

In the wake of yet another state championship for the Black River High School girls' soccer team, their third consecutive state title, senior captain Courtney Rohrig ended her phenomenal high school soccer career with not only the aforementioned three titles, but was also named to four All–Marble Valley League teams as well as the 2008 Burlington Free Press All–State team after scoring a phenomenal school record of 135 goals.

Art in Action to fund Vermont-based projects

White River Junction – The Vermont Arts Council has declared 20 artists finalists to present proposals in January to take part in “Art in Action: Shaping Vermont’s Future Through Art.”

Wood with a story to tell

Like most master crafstmen, Phil Fortin sees his chosen medium as more than a building material.