MONEY MONEY
“There just isn’t any money,” Gov. Phil Scott said as he signed the mid-year budget update. The annual Budget Adjustment Act balances the state budget through the end of the current fiscal year. Read more…
ART ON THE WALLS
The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features seamstress Billie Jo Garfield. Bryan Memorial Gallery spotlights A Song at Days End by Cynthia Rosen. Read more…
ART FOR SALE
14th Star Brewing Company holds the weekly Maker’s Market with local crafters and makers. Read more…
HUMANITIES
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute welcomes Jennifer McConnell to discuss Anne Steele: Life & Hymnody. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association’s monthly Bridging Perspectives speaker series continues with Andrea Tamburro to discuss Intergenerational Trauma: Healing and Resilience. The Vermont Humanities Council offers Peter Harrigan to discuss Barbie’s Reflection on Our World. Read more…
OPERA
The Metropolitan Opera presents Romeo et Juliette. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts with soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts Paint Pouring with the Balloon Technique with Laurie Thompson and Social Sunday continues the free art class for families. The Swanton Free Public Library hosts a Clay Earring Class. Read more…
COVID NEWS
CDC estimates that 97% of Americans have some level of immunity from COVID, from either vaccination or infection or both, but 42 Vermonters have died and 370 have hospitalized since New Year’s Day means COVID is still here. Franklin County accounts for more than one-third of those hospitalizations. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
Comedy for a Cause, Karaoke and Open Mic Night, Cooie Sings, Jenni and the Junketeers, Duncan MacLeod, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Uncle Jimmy, Ryan Sweezy and the Midnight Walkers, Ray’s Used Cars Band, Next Stop Comedy, Kyle Stevens, Elizabeth Begins, the Tom Caswell Blues Project, PET Project, and John Bartus all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
The Highgate Library and Community Center Adult Virtual Book Club reads The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. The St. Albans Free Library hosts Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries. Read more…