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First house under construction at Waitsfield Ten

The first of what will be eight houses built in a 10-acre subdivision in Waitsfield is under construction. The subdivision is accessed from Route 100 via Folsom Brook Road which the project shares ...

First house under construction at Waitsfield Ten

Ski racer at the 2022 Killington Women's World Cup. Photo: Dylan Nichols

‘The skiing was chill’

It is a different start to ski season this year. According to tradition, my ski boots have taken up residence in the living room around the middle of October. This year, they only moved into position ...

Love What You Do: The Luminous Moose Glass

This periodic series of three images and responses to questions tells the stories of people of The Valley who love what they do. As Confucius once said, “Choose a job you love and you will never ...

Vermont Youth Conservation Corps members plant native trees and shrubs along the Mad River. Photo: Friends of the Mad River.

Planting trees along the Mad River has many benefits

Friends of the Mad River, the Waitsfield Conservation Commission, and the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps teamed up in late October to plant nearly 600 native trees and shrubs in support of a ...

Family stencil on pavement. Photo: Sandy Millar

Voluntary paid family/medical leave program launched

Vermont has hired The Hartford to create the Vermont Family and Medical Leave Insurance Plan (VT-FMLI), a voluntary paid family and medical leave program that will give all working Vermonters access ...

HUMS students learnign to bake and sharing their baked goods with the Mad River Valley Senior Center.

Harwood Union Middle School students participate in ‘Baked for Good’

Students at Harwood Union Middle School “Baked for Good” on November 21 and 22. Working with the outreach program for students through King Arthur Flour, students learned how to bake ...

Mad River Valley Seniors working with clay. Photos: Joanne Fitzgerald and Pam Day

Mad River Seniors enjoys clay workshop

Blockhouse Studio, Waitsfield, hosted a holiday ornament-making workshop for 17 local seniors on Wednesday, November 30. Pam Day, the studio owner, and Leslie Montalto, local artisan and pottery ...