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Rec district seeks greater municipal support

The Mad River Valley Recreation District is asking its member towns to double the financial contribution from each town from $15,000 to $30,000. The increased funding is aimed at letting the rec ...

Rec district seeks greater municipal support

The Mad River Valley Recreation District is asking its member towns to double the financial contribution from each town from $15,000 to $30,000. The increased funding is aimed at letting the rec ...

Harwood Union climate activists plan to strike

Student participants of the Vermont Youth Lobby have been busy planning a series of youth actions to promote climate-related legislation this year. The Vermont Youth Lobby group at Harwood Union ...

International Boutique opens December 7

The annual International Boutique opens December 7 with clothing, crafts and gifts from around the world. The weeklong event is a fundraiser for Amurtel, a nonprofit that works with and helps women ...

File photo, Socrates Cafe. Photo: Chris Keating.

Untold Stories students hosts Socrates Cafe

On Tuesday, December 3, a group of students from the Untold Stories course at Harwood are hosting a community Socrates Cafe discussion centered around the topic of diversity. Last year, former ...

Dawson to retire from HUUSD

Donarae Dawson, director of student support services for the Harwood Unified Union School District (HUUSD), is retiring after 28 years. Dawson is a native Vermonter who attended the University of ...

Photo courtesy of Sugarbush Resort. Win Smith explains to the crowd at a community forum his reasons for selling the resort to Alterra.

Full house at Sugarbush community forum

Members of the Mad River Valley community filled the Gate House Lodge at Sugarbush last Wednesday night. While there was tea, coffee, a full bar and a buffet spread of fruits and cheeses, this is not ...

Photo courtesy of FMR. Longtime FMR board member Katie Sullivan helps at a community stewardship day last fall.

Friends of the Mad River is 30 years old

Many Vermont stories start on a ski slope and, in a way, this one did, too. Thirty years ago, local concerns about the effects of a snowmaking operation on the Mad River drew attention to the ...