Waitsfield News

Burlington's 12-day celebration of Lake Champlain has just gotten a little bigger.

By Jane Haser, intern The crowd was hot in more ways than one at a very well-attended panel discussion in Waitsfield on the future of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.

By mid-afternoon today, the hills of Washington will be alive with music, though the delicate chords of "Edelweiss" are not likely to be heard.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of recipients for $6.45 million in grants to spur economic development and revitalization in rural communities.

Burlington City Arts has a new storefront for its International Waterfront Festival running July 2nd through 14th.

The possible closure of Vermont Yankee will be the focus of a panel discussion in Waitsfield tonight.

Mozart is to opera what Shakespeare is to theater. Like the playwright, the composer's operas are full of characters and situations that are real, and that we come to care about.

As Vermont Yankee seeks to extend its operating license 20 years beyond its 2012 shutdown date, a group of energy-savvy panelists is assembling at the Big Picture Theater in Waitsfield to discuss Vermont's power possibilities.

The Green Mountain Opera Festival ends its three-week residency in Waitsfield this weekend with two performances of Mozart's comic opera The Marriage of Figaro at the Barre Opera House on Friday, June 19, at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, June 21, at 3 p.m. The artists, who have been rehearsing at the Valley Players Theater, now move to the Barre Opera ...

Long before the Griswolds and the "Vacation" trilogy of movies, the family trip had a certain painful nostalgia for people that could only be appreciated many years later- WAITSFIELD, VT, June 16, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- usually when they had their own families and attempted trips of their own.

Vermont business owners are hoping a pair of sales-tax holidays slated for the coming fiscal year will offer respite from a prolonged dip in retail sales.

Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" remains one of the most popular operas ever performed because, despite the comedy's 18th century birth and setting, it portrays real people in timeless situations of love and betrayal.

Vermonters face a critical decision on our energy future: Vermont Yankee, the state's sole nuclear power plant, is scheduled to close down in 2012.

A showcase of the stars of upcoming "The Marriage of Figaro" opened the fourth annual Green Mountain Opera Festival, Thursday at the Joslyn Round Barn.

For a quarter century, Chris and Lynne Francis have run Mr. Pickwick's at Ye Olde England Inne with an emphasis on authenticity: steak, kidney and oyster pie, and bangers 'n' mash were standard fare.

By Lisa Loomis At a pre-conference Act 250 hearing for Waitsfield's municipal water project, two landowners challenged the town's legal right to apply for the permit and several other landowners requested party status for a variety of reasons.

Artists taking part in this year's Green Mountain Opera Festival began arriving in the Mad River Valley on May 27 for a three and a half week festival packed with many events.

Baked Beads 17th Annual Memorial Day Weekend Jewelry Clearance New jewelry, scarves, pashminas.

RunVermont, which operates the annual KeyBank Vermont City Marathon, will honor three individuals during the pre-race pasta dinner at 5:30 tonight at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in South Burlington.

Several local artists and studios will participate in the 17th annual Vermont Crafts Council Open Studio weekend on May 23 and 24.