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Tickets available for Shelburne Museum’s ‘Winter Lights’
An annual holiday tradition returns to the Shelburne Museum for its sixth season on the day after Thanksgiving.
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Mural in Keeseville Commemorates the Battle of Valcour
Keeseville has a new mural celebrating one of the pivotal moments in the American Revolution. Ausable Valley Central School District students, teachers and a local artist have brought the story of the Battle of Valcour Bay to life in ceramic tile at the Ausable-Chesterfield-Keeseville Civic Center. Titled The Battle of...
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The votes are in: See this year’s Foliage Photo Friday champion
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - It’s time to crown this year’s Foliage Photo Friday champion! You shared hundreds of beautiful fall foliage photos with us over the course of September and October. We asked you to vote for your favorite of the four weekly winners and the results are in. Congratulations to our week two winner, Nicholas Erwin, who is our 2026 Foliage Photo Friday grand prize winner! It was an extremely close competition this year. Brinda Daggett’s Island Pond finished at a very close second place in our poll.
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Bob Wagner, LaMP and Three-Piece Meal and More to Be Featured on ‘Burlington Sounds’
Bob Wagner, LaMP and Three-Piece Meal are among the Vermont-rooted acts featured on Burlington Sounds, Vol. 1, a new vinyl compilation showcasing the city’s populous music scene. Bringing together 14 local artists spanning rock, bluegrass, soul, punk, psychedelia and jam, the set also spotlights All Night Boogie Band, Hammydown, Acqua Mossa, Good Gravy, Danny & the Parts, Remi Russin, Clive, Cady Ternity, Cricket Blue, Burly Girlies and Eustis, with additional contributions from voice actor Kris Brown.
The Burlington Free Press
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Colchester Eagle Scout constructs little library and food pantry outside Malletts Bay School
COLCHESTER — Eagle Scout Juliet Wager built a new little food pantry and library outside Malletts Bay School. The Colchester High School sophomore was partly inspired to put the “Snacks and Books” station together by her mother, who is president of Colchester Community Food Shelf. “I really...
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Chazy Presbyterian Church receives historic marker
Chazy Presbyterian Church pastor Dr. Martin Weitz provided a look at Scottish origins of the Presbyterian church. — CHAZY | Established in 1805, the Chazy Presbyterian Church was organized by some of the first settlers in this stretch of Lake Champlain valley. They set their goals as the town was chartered 1804.
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Book Review: ‘Alice Sees Ghosts,’ Daisy Rockwell
Can haunting be benevolent? That’s the question posed by Alice Sees Ghosts, the second novel from Bennington author, visual artist and translator Daisy Rockwell. Despite its Halloween-adjacent U.S. release date, the book is more comedy of manners than horror tale. But it does evoke an eerie sense that everything we do is haunted by the specters of our forebears.
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ECHO After Dark, an exploration of death
Purple lights cast long shadows, the silhouettes of ghosts and ghouls flooding over tables displaying animals long dead. Beetles gnaw on bones, while vivid descriptions of death and decay fill the room. On Friday, Oct. 16, the ECHO Leahy Center hosted Memento Mori, an adults-only event centered around nature, death...
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Student musicians take center stage at Sonic Futures Battle of the Bands
Via Community News Service, a University of Vermont journalism internship, for the Waterbury Roundabout & Valley Reporter. Following a girls volleyball quarterfinal win down the hall, Harwood Union Middle & High School’s auditorium was filled to the brim Friday night for the annual Sonic Futures Battle of the Bands.
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‘Dark Botanica’ at BCA Center Presents the Unsettling Side of Flowers
Think of works with a slightly sinister cast within the vast history of botanical art, and you may recall Dutch master Rachel Ruysch’s luminous bouquets in shadowy spaces, Henri Rousseau’s ominous jungles or Vincent van Gogh’s vases of intense, manic-depressive blooms. Unless you are Seven Days music editor Chris Farnsworth, who, when told of the exhibition “Dark Botanica” at BCA Center, immediately referred this writer to Christopher Walken’s classic 2008 “Saturday Night Live” sketch “Indoor Gardening Tips From a Man Who’s Very Scared of Plants.”
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New Nightclub Planned for Former Nectar’s Building
The space that hosted legendary Burlington music venue Nectar’s for nearly 50 years might open its doors again soon. Whether it will do so under the name Nectar’s remains to be seen. As reported by WCAX-TV on Thursday, businessman and nightclub owner Shawn Cliche has submitted zoning applications...