Craftsbury News

Schools across our region are holding commencement ceremonies this weekend, but many are saying goodbye to fewer grads.

Dear Lynne: I stopped at a country store to buy local strawberries. I bought some fresh onions as well.

Brooks performs on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Music Box in Craftsbury; for information, go online to www.themusicboxvt.org. By ART EDELSTEIN arts Correspondent - Published: June 5, 2009 Addison County singer-songwriter Josh Brooks recently released his fourth album, "Lessons Learned." This CD highlights a very good songwriter, and singer whose work ...

Onion River Chorus, directed by Larry Gordon, the Arc'Angelo Baroque Ensemble led by violinist Kevin Bushee, will present a program of rarely heard German Baroque choral and chamber works in two performances: Saturday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m., at the East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church; and Sunday, June 7, at 7 p.m. at Montpelier Unitarian Church.

The Kirkwoods and drummer Ted Marcus will visit the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday with Retribution Gospel Choir.

When it comes to physical fitness, Craftsbury Academy encourages its students to do more than just attend gym class.

Want to see for yourself? Readings of The Triumph of Love, July 31; Romeo and Juliet, August 14; The Cherry Orchard, September 7, all at 7 p.m., at the Greensboro Library, presented by the Greensboro Arts Alliance and Residency .

The 92 students at Sterling College are used to roughing it - they learn how to use an ax, sleep outside in the winter and raise a quarter of their food.

Splendor in the grass: Lucien Paquette behind the scythe. May 09, 2009 For retired Vermont agricultural extension agent Lucien Paquette, life has been long and sweet like the grass.

The Senate Caucus Room, where 97 years ago officials investigated the sinking of the Titanic and where, more recently, the Watergate hearings were held, tonight will host a more festive affair.

Two years ago, Sterling College officials decided that if the tiny school in Craftsbury Common were to survive, it needed to expand.

Diverting $350,000 from the state's student aid fund to help a small private college stay afloat is hardly the best use of public education dollars when everyone -- students and public schools -- are feeling the recession's squeeze.

Wednesday morning was less than mellow for six people arrested on charges of growing and possessing marijuana in Lamoille and Caledonia counties.

Six people are facing marijuana-related charges in connection with drug sweeps Wednesday in Lamoille, Caledonia and Orleans counties, said Vermont State Police.

The Vermont Drug Task Force, along with Vermont State Police, Morristown Police Department, and the Lamoille County Sheriff's Department executed five court-ordered search warrants on Wednesday, stemming from an investigation involving the cultivation of marijuana.

INCIDENT: Vacant House Fire CASE #: 09A101749 TROOPER: Det. Sgt. Mark P. Galle STATION: Williston CONTACT#:802-872-4090 ext 2015 DATE/TIME: 4/23/2009 3:58 p.m. VICTIM: The Hazel Allen Family CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Wolcott, VT SUMMARY OF INCIDENT On 04-23-2009 at approximately 3:58 p.m. A passing motorist observed a fire at the vacant residence ...

COLCHESTER, Vt. -- A 12-year-old boy from Newbury has captured Vermont's annual spelling bee, correctly spelling "binoculars." Timothy Webb, a home-schooler, outlasted Mael Le Scouzec of Craftsbury, who misspelled "exhort," to earn a trip to the National Spelling Bee, which is set for May 26 in Washington, D.C. He also won a trophy and a laptop ...

Artists are drawn to the Vermont landscape like flies to cow flop. The state's gentle geography, untrammeled fields and forests, and rustic architectural gems prove irresistible to budding photographers and painters.

It was 5 degrees out and before 6 in the morning on a recent Wednesday, when Tim Fishburne pulled out of Pete's Greens, a vegetable farm in Craftsbury, with a truckload of food and his dog, Lucy.

By all accounts, Peter King is a dreamer. He fantasizes about a utopia where people live minimally in tiny houses and garden a small plot of earth.