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Big Kicker event photos from Sugarbush/JA.

As snow falls in The Valley, The Big Kicker returns to welcome in ski season

By Greta Close, contributing author Twelve years ago, Eric Friedman, then marketing director for Mad River Glen, visited Crested Butte, Colorado – his purpose: to present on cooperative mountain ...

As snow falls in The Valley, The Big Kicker returns to welcome in ski season

Waitsfield will pursue speed limit changes in the village

The town of Waitsfield will pursue three speed limit changes on Main Street from north of Old County Road, south almost to Our Lady of the Snows Church. The select board reviewed recommendations made ...

Vermont Parlance- Part Four - I’ll call you when the hayin’s done

Woodard’s Farm in Waterbury Center has been worked by the same family for well over a century. An undated Free Press clipping the family loaned me reads, “George Woodard, Sr. personifies ...

Students at Moretown Elementary School look at "The Faces of Innocence" photo exhibit donated by the Besharat Arts Foundation.

Besharat Arts Foundation donates photography exhibit to Moretown School

The Besharat Arts Foundation has donated “The Faces of Innocence” exhibit of photographs of children from around the world by famed photographer Steve McCurry to Moretown Elementary School. ...

HUUSD Board discusses next steps following failed bond vote

On November 2, residents of the six sending towns for the Harwood Unified Union School District (HUUSD) voted down a $59.5 million bond. The bond included efficiencies and improvements, compliance ...

Mad River Recreation Hub public forum scheduled for today, November 15

For the past six months, a multi-organization collaboration among a handful of local groups has been working on securing a significant grant that has the potential to dramatically enhance outdoor ...

Vietnam vets volunteered to serve, married and now live in The Valley

Tom and Polly Bednash had both volunteered to serve in Vietnam when they met there in March, 1966, in Vung Tau where Polly was in the Army Nurse Corps and Tom was a Signal Corps officer in the 36th ...