Reading News

The Mark Skinner Library will host their Book Bash, the opening celebration for the Summer Reading Program, "Be Creative @ Your Library," on Thursday, July 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The Book Bash begins a 6-week series of creative, exciting activities that will include an author visit by Woody Jackson, a movement workshop, a field trip to the ...

On Thursday, June 18, Gary David Goldberg, the creator, writer and producer for the television series "Brooklyn Bridge", "Spin City" and "Family Ties" will be at the Bennington Museum to participate in Books for Bennington.

The decision by Mater Christi School to cancel an anti-racism event raises difficult questions about how we draw such distinct lines based on our beliefs that we are no longer capable of listening to people with whom we disagree talk about even unrelated subjects.

The abrupt cancellation of a Reading to End Racism event at a Burlington parochial school has left presenters of the program dismayed.

Library awarded grant for summer program: The Hannaford Charitable Foundation has awarded the Fletcher Free Library youth department a $3,000 grant to support the library's 2009 Summer Reading Program.

Richard Cole Sweet of Reading, Vt., died Tuesday, May, 26, 2009. Husband of Elizabeth Flugel Hill-Sweet, he was born May 21, 1923, in Norwich, Conn., son of Frederick and Georgie Sweet.

Top 5 accomplishments: Honor Roll, member of NHS, most improved for varsity basketball season of 2007-2008, Carol McFeeters Basketball Award, VTLSP conference In the community: Participant of SADD, volunteer at Brigham Library, volunteer at St.

Students got elbow-deep in trash Friday to show what more the school could do to compost and recycle.

The second annual, Manchester and the Mountains Poets and Writers Weekend, on Friday, April 24 to Sunday, April 26 will feature a schedule packed with readings, workshops, panels and entertainment.

Reading and doing puzzles are favorite hobbies for Holly Puterbaugh and Lois Farnham.

Gay marriage isn't the only debate heating up at the Statehouse. Vermont legislators and Gov.

ERIKA JOHNSON Age: 17 School: Essex High School Parents: Brian and Mary-Ann Johnson Hometown: Essex Junction Top 5 accomplishments: 97.1 GPA -- Summa cum Laude, National Merit Scholarship finalist, University of Vermont Green and Gold Scholar, member of National Honor Society and Tri-M Music Honor Society, President's Volunteer Service Award -- ...

Faculty anger has apparently cooled at the financially troubled University of Vermont, thanks partly to the administration's retrenchment on executive compensation and its stepped-up efforts to consult ...

Residents in the Woodstock Union High School District approved an article that will help the construction of an affordable housing development across from the high school.

The Shaftsbury Select Board doesn't need to be filled with doctors, lawyers, engineers or, for that matter, politicians.

State Police responded to a single-car crash on Tyson Road on Friday. Police said the vehicle fish-tailed and hit a snow bank, causing the vehicle to rollover.

It's only February, but the Manchester Rotary Club is already hard at work planning for one of our signature summer events - the Gear Up for Lyme Uphill Bike Climb.

At town meeting, residents will see proposed school budgets with slight increases, a proposed town budget that is actually decreasing and an article that would help pave the way for affordable housing.

Vermont public school students brought home a better report card Wednesday than the one they earned last year, showing improvements in reading, writing and math.

More Vermont students are making the grade when it comes to the annual New England Common Assessment Program exams.