Community Events

Lions Club fishing derby returns

JACKSONVILLE - The Deerfield Valley Lions Club annual fishing derby will be held on Saturday, May 21, from 9 to 11 am at the brook by the Whitingham Municipal Center. The brook will be stocked by the Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife. There will be prizes and refreshments, including hot...

Storytelling and stargazing at BMAC

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center and Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center will present “Night Skies & Stories,” a free stargazing and storytelling event, on Saturday, May 14, at 8 pm. The rain date for this event is the following day, Sunday, May 15. Space is limited...

Children searching for the first wildflowers of spring.

Watch the lunar eclipse, search for wildflowers, sit around the campfire

MARLBORO - It will be a busy weekend at the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum. On Saturday, May 14, join the Mountainside Center, 117 Adams Cross Road, for a kids exploration of “Spring Forest Flowers,” where participants will explore the woods in search of early wildflowers. Call the...

Mutts gone nuts!

RANDOLPH - Mutts Gone Nuts is a one-hour comedy show featuring nine canine acrobats and their hapless humans, streaming live on Saturday, May 14, at 7 pm on the Chandler Center for the Arts website. Be amazed as these dogs jump, dance, and flip right into the audience’s hearts. Laugh out loud at...

Shoppers at the 2021 tag sale look through clothing.

Church holds tag sale for refugees

BRATTLEBORO - St. Michael’s Episcopal Church is hosting a huge tag sale Saturday, May 7, from 8:30 am to 2 pm, to be held both indoors and outdoors under tents. The sale will feature not only clothing for all seasons and linens, housewares, jewelry, books, sporting goods, and furniture, but also...

Aging gardens, aging gardeners

WILMINGTON - Gardeners, anxious to be out working in the garden, improving the beds, and enjoying work? Join the Pettee Memorial Library on Thursday, May 5, at 6 pm, when it will host Ann McEntee for her presentation on “Aging Gardens, Aging Gardeners.” For years gardens have given great joy....

ANUFF looking for new leader

NEWFANE - The helping hands of A Neighborhood Uniting For Fuelwood will be back at Patty Johnson’s to finish getting her firewood in this Saturday, May 7, starting at 9:30 am. The address is 638 Vermont 30.
There will be a splitter going and, if all goes according to plan, a tractor to...

Learn how literature informs painting and visuals inspire language in monthly workshop

SHAFTSBURY - Join Renée Bouchard and Genevieve Plunkett in an image and text landscape study class at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum, 121 Vermont Rte 7A, each second Thursday of the month from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Beginning Thursday, May 12 , participants of “A Literary and Painterly...

Gallery Walk returns

BRATTLEBORO - It’s back. Gallery Walk will return to downtown on Friday, May 6, with more galleries, more music, and more fun. For example, there will be a free ArtSEE gallery tour at 6 pm at Chicken Rex outside of Harmony Collective. No RSVP is needed. The Harmony Lot will also become an outdoor...

Marisa Imôn, seen here doing stand up musical comedy, is one of the hosts of Saturday’s event.

Laughter and motherhood

SAXTONS RIVER - “Momologues,” a Mother’s Day weekend comedy show will take place Saturday, May 7, at Main Street Arts, 35 Main Street, featuring 15 comics from around New England. Doors will open at 3 pm; the show will run from 3:30 to 5 pm. There will be vendors, refreshments, and gifts for...