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Toy drive and Secret Santa program launched

Sugarfish VT and Opulent Designs, both of Waitsfield, have organized a toy drive and Secret Santa program in the Mad River Valley this year. There are three opportunities for giving. 1) Sign up on ...

Toy drive and Secret Santa program launched

What to expect if a co-worker has COVID-19

With ongoing cases of COVID-19 in schools and the community, learning that a co-worker has tested positive can be confusing and scary. Vermont’s robust contact tracers have been successful in ...

Local turkeys flew the coop

While turkeys can still be ordered from Mehuron’s and Shaw’s, a few local growers have already sold out. Hadley Gaylord, Waitsfield, typically sells about 100 Thanksgiving turkeys. This year, he ...

Forrest resigns from Waitsfield Select Board

Darryl Forrest submitted his resignation to the Waitsfield Select Board last week. He and his wife, Marie Leotta, are moving to Ponta Vedra, Florida, next month after the sale of their home ...

The Moretown Artisans’ Sale moves online for 2020

Support local businesses and finish holiday shopping from home this year. The Moretown Artisans’ Sale (MAS) is pivoting online this holiday shopping season in an effort to make it easier for ...

How to buy a mask and donate to a local organization

Annemarie Furey is the owner of Product Think Tank. “I started Product Think Tank as a way to apply the mind set of farm-to-table to apparel.” When COVID-19 hit the United States, Furey started ...

Chamber members rally to lobby for state funding and plan Festival of Light

“The silver lining of this whole pandemic has been how the lodging sector has pulled together. They’ve really helped each other a lot, whether it is talking through protocols, cooperatively ...