25 Reasons to Love Charlotte
1. Its part of Vermont!
2. I love how anyone can take a ferry boat ride and end up in a different state. You can walk around, have lunch and ride back. How many places in the country can you do that?
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Leavitt-y
Resolutions, 2009
In case you needed some ideas:
- Submitted: Tuesday, January 6th [more ...] |
Across the Field
When I was a child, I loved Christmas. If you had asked me what was my favorite holiday back in the old days without missing a beat, without thinking twice, I would have answered you, Christmas.
- Submitted: Thursday, December 18th [more ...] |
A Time to Help Henry
People like Henry Gebo have helped make Shelburne Supermarket a fantastic place to work and shop.
- Submitted: Thursday, December 18th [more ...] |
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Twenty Years of Tables
rom South Africa to Charlotte via London, Allen Simon discovered a home here 20 years ago and found a way to make his passion into a legacy, creating and restoring furniture that can now be found all over town.
- Submitted: Thursday, December 18th [more ...] |
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Shop Around
Recycling isnt usually what one thinks of when shopping for presents.
- Submitted: Wednesday, December 3rd [more ...] |
Leavitt'y
Now that Im hosting my own holiday meals, Ive come face to face with the idiosyncrasies that are my family.
- Submitted: Wednesday, December 3rd [more ...] |
Looking Back
Poverty in Charlotte, Part II
by Frank Thornton
The right of towns in to exclude strangers, founded in the common law of England, was firmly established here in Vermont by stature when the General Assembly for Vermont first convened in Windsor on Marc
- Submitted: Wednesday, December 3rd [more ...] |
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Wild Life
In this time of global financial uncertainty, its more apparent than ever that money doesnt grow on trees. We could learn important fiscal lessons, however, from the woody plants around us.
- Submitted: Wednesday, December 3rd [more ...] |
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A Tribute to Marlene Mansfield
Marlene Mansfield, Assistant Town Clerk in Charlotte since 1990, passed away on October 25 from cancer. Dear friend Heather Manning pays her tribute here.
- Submitted: Thursday, November 20th [more ...] |
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Across the Field
I dont know how many of you out there were around back in the days when they had a corn maze in the area behind the Teddy Bear Factory.
- Submitted: Thursday, November 20th [more ...] |
My Comfort Food Comes in a Bottle
So who says comfort food is limited to stuff you have to fork, knife or spoon even chopstick? My implement of ingestion is an 18-ounce glass bottle...
- Submitted: Thursday, November 20th [more ...] |
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Eating Out on the Cheap
No doubt about it, times are tough. But we still need to get out of the kitchen once in a while.
- Submitted: Thursday, November 20th [more ...] |
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Musical Charlotte Children Shine
Ruby and Owen Ladd are gifted musicians and composers. This may not seem surprising, but for the fact that they havent reached their teens yet.
- Submitted: Thursday, November 20th [more ...] |
Our African Adventure Part Two
We are almost at the end of our three weeks here at the Rift Valley Childrens Village, (in Oldeani Village, Tanzania), and I cant believe we are going to leave all this behind!
- Submitted: Thursday, November 20th [more ...] |
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Leavitt-y
As I enjoyed the sight of little goblins and lions this Halloween, I remembered some of my times in costume.
- Submitted: Wednesday, November 5th [more ...] |
Our African Adventure - Part One
The beginning, in which we plan.
It took almost a year to find a place in Africa where Jack, my 13-year-old son, and I could volunteer.
- Submitted: Wednesday, November 5th [more ...] |
Looking Back
Jacob Warrin and Caleb Harden were both residents in Charlotte in the first quarter of the 19th century. But they may never have met because in 1809 Joseph Warrin became the first person to be warned out of Charlotte by the selectmen
- Submitted: Wednesday, October 15th [more ...] |
Family Follies
No doubt youve heard about the newest self-improvement craze, the attempt to pare ones possessions down to 100 things, started by a gent who has decided to live life with only 100 belongings.
- Submitted: Wednesday, October 15th [more ...] |
Shop Around
Pati and I are back on the road, searching far and wide for shopping and dining news for you. Since weve been idle for such a long time, we pointed the car north and stopped at the first town we came to.
- Submitted: Sunday, October 5th [more ...] |
Leavitt-y
I am 43 years old, and I thought it would be fun to take Chinese at the University of Vermont this year. Its fun. Yeah, its fun to learn a language whose letters are so small Ive been forced to get the reading glasses Ive avoided up til now.
- Submitted: Sunday, October 5th [more ...] |
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In and Around the Garden
The frantic gardening season is coming to a close. The angle of light from the sun is complementary to the garden almost all day now.
- Submitted: Sunday, October 5th [more ...] |
Who Are the People?
Shyla Nelson is the epitome of a suburban soccer mom. But what sets her apart from other moms beside the playing field is her voice.
- Submitted: Sunday, October 5th [more ...] |
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Local Resident Studies Golf Swing
Ryan McGinnis is fascinated with the golf swing. The 21-year-olds long-held devotion to the game notwithstanding, he never thought the sport would help him jump start a research project.
- Submitted: Thursday, September 18th [more ...] |
Big Green Bargain
ach August, board members of the Chittenden Solid Waste District have an opportunity to order Soilsaver compost bins, to be sold by town clerks throughout the district. They have arrived!
- Submitted: Thursday, September 18th [more ...] |
SCHIP Ready to Help Local Communities
Shelburne Charlotte Hinesburg Interfaith Projects (SCHIP) is ready to give money to help people in need in the three towns where it focuses its mission.
- Submitted: Thursday, September 18th [more ...] |
Wild Life
Fall is a natural time to look at the patterns trees create as they blanket the landscape in their oranges, purples, greens, yellows, browns and reds.
- Submitted: Thursday, September 18th [more ...] |
Leavitt-y
I have always loved the Olympics. My mom would watch as many hours of the coverage as she could, often letting me stay up far past my bedtime to watch events live. My first real Olympic memories are from the 1972 Summer games.
- Submitted: Friday, September 5th [more ...] |
In and Around the Garden
I led a group of master gardeners though the garden one evening a few weeks ago; because it was the end of a hot day and I was tired and ready for dinner, I declared that I was finished making new gardens.
- Submitted: Friday, September 5th [more ...] |
InterView with Aaron Flinn
The life of a professional musician is very hard and extremely rewarding. If it is what you have in your soul, if music is like oxygen (as it is to me), then it is the only life.
- Submitted: Sunday, August 31st [more ...] |
From the Editor
These past few weeks have been a time of mostly fantastic and sometimes frustrating change here in the News office.
- Submitted: Wednesday, August 6th [more ...] |
Letter
My family and I would like to express our heartfelt appreciation and thanks...
- Submitted: Wednesday, August 6th [more ...] |
Leavitt-y
I'm not really supposed to go the creemee stand. I am not slender, my cholesterol is too high and I have a small gall bladder problem that is exacerbated by all the yumminess that can be found at Uncle Sams Dairy Bar.
- Submitted: Wednesday, August 6th [more ...] |
Wild Life
In Charlotte August is prime berry time both at the berry farms and in the wild, where with just a bit of careful looking, you can find ripe blueberries, raspberries or blackberries.
- Submitted: Wednesday, August 6th [more ...] |
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Matchless Match Experience
After several break-ups and a tendency to withdraw into semi-reclusiveness, I decided it was time to at least make an effort to find a male companion, maybe even a partner.
- Submitted: Wednesday, August 6th [more ...] |
Taking Care
Your husband is in assisted living at Converse Home, someone said to me.
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In Praise of Imperfection
he other day, I cant remember why, but I was thinking about mistakes. Who likes to make mistakes? Not me. But that doesnt mean that I dont.
- Submitted: Wednesday, August 6th [more ...] |
In and Around the Garden
...I did not need to read the book to know how quickly my little garden domain will be wiped from the face of the earth when I am gone.
- Submitted: Wednesday, August 6th [more ...] |
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Leavitt-y
I woke up the other morning and it started to rain well to pour, actually.
- Submitted: Saturday, June 28th [more ...] |
Wild Life
With this issue, Charlotte Conservation Commission is very pleased to begin a new monthly column, Wild Life.
- Submitted: Saturday, June 28th [more ...] |
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Launch of the Mashnee
On Saturday morning, May 31, 2008, Mashnee was launched at Point Bay Marina, 107 years after she was originally launched in May of 1902...
- Submitted: Tuesday, June 17th [more ...] |
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My Dad and His Land
Understanding my dad's "thing" for land and farming perhaps goes back to the late 1700s
- Submitted: Thursday, May 29th [more ...] |
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Across the Field
April, according to T. S. Eliot, is the cruelest month, but I would add that May is the busiest.
- Submitted: Thursday, May 29th [more ...] |
OutTakes
I came of age just on the cusp of the "60s movement,"
- Submitted: Thursday, May 29th [more ...] |
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Creating Garden Art
Wander around Meg Fosters gardens outside her Charlotte home and youll notice lots of interesting birdbaths, drainspouts and hose guides that look a lot like leaves.
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 30th [more ...] |
Leavitt-y
The glorious spring weather does not pull me to a plot of ground, eager to till and sow. Until I moved to Vermont, this did not make me feel like a bad person.
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 30th [more ...] |
Trudis Welcomes Spring
Things are in full welcome Spring mode at Trudis at Gecewicz Farms on Spear Street,
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 30th [more ...] |
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Horsfords Happenings
Horsford Gardens & Nursery is bustling with activity in preparation for its 115th season.
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 30th [more ...] |
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Neighbor To Neighbor:
Mary Recchia asked the older citizens of Charlotte to share a bit of their wisdom.
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 30th [more ...] |
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Charlotte Grange News
This year one of our towns most enduring institutions, the Charlotte Grange #398, faces an important milestone, its 100th anniversary.
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 16th [more ...] |
Front Porch Forum in Running for
Local success story Front Porch Forum is in the running to win a national contest of innovative community-building projects.
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 16th [more ...] |
Health & Fitness
Fitness Has Its Peaks and Valleys "Charlotter Hylah Patton talks with Melissa Eyre about her fitness highs and lows..."
- Submitted: Friday, April 4th [more ...] |
Health & Fitness
Beyond the Maze
"I have been caught in that mazenot recently, thank God, but before. It is a maze that is mythiclike Sisyphus..."
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 2nd [more ...] |
Health & Fitness
Bloomfield Farm Growing Strong "Being a small-scale grower brings many challenges, the first of which is finding the right home."
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 2nd [more ...] |
Health & Fitness
Memory Bridge Program Links Elders and Students "Cally Braun and Rae Naritomi are buddies even though Braun is a 6th-grade student at Charlotte Central School (CCS) and Naritomi is an 88-year-old woman with Alzheimers Disease living at The Arbors in She
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 2nd [more ...] |
Health & Fitness
Tennis Anyone? "Get out the aspirin, acetaminophen or whatever, and the ice pack..."
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 2nd [more ...] |
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