Weathersfield Weekly Blog, March 6 edition
2023 Vermont Flower Show
"Out of Hibernation, Spring Comes to the 100-Acre Wood"
More photos below
VOTE Tuesday, March 7
Australian Ballot
Martin Memorial Hall 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Australian Ballot
Martin Memorial Hall 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
VT SOS-Citizen Guide to Voting: Click Here
Mark Your Calendars
Technigala Winter 2023 Showcase March 7
Each season, experience the latest tech and design innovations, created by Dartmouth students.
Since 2013, Technigala has been the quarterly showcase for innovative DALI and Computer Science projects. In the new Engineering and Computer Science Center, we will also showcase some of our engineering neighbors projects!
Join us for a night of celebration, food, and drink as we learn about the cool things made by cool people!
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
Poster & Graphics by Tomo Greenberg
Reading Shakespeare at the Weathersfield Library Tuesdays through April 4th
Weathersfield Proctor Library and presenter Patti Arrison are hosting an informal, fun-filled reading of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, As You Like It, Tuesday evenings March 7 through April 4 from 6:30-8 p.m.. About one act per week will be read.
Springfield Town Library is happy to host the Springfield High School Exchange Students for an evening of sharing! Students will share stories and information about their home countries, their experience as a student in the United States, and their future plans.
FREE but you must RESERVE a spot to attend TICKETSpringfield Town Library 43 Main Street Springfield, VT 05156
Saturday, March 18 at 7 p.m. at the Weathersfield School. Get your TEAM together and brush up on your trivia.
The Zack's Place Theatre Guild presents "Zilly Zonka and the Chocolate Factory", Wednesday, May 10 at 5:30 p.m. The performance is FREE but donations are gladly accepted.
Hockey Champions
Lucas Guadette and Isaac Mc Naughton's hockey team the Vermont Flames won the AA Peewee Quebec International tournament over Winter break.
WS Soccer Champions
Congratulations to the following Weathersfield students: Taylor Tomberg, Cole Tomberg, Clayton Rousse, Turtle Petschke, Warner Malloy, Oliver Vandivere and WS alumni Justin Roy.
By law, all dogs and wolf hybrids six months of age (if first rabies vaccine 3 months) or older must be licensed by April 1st each year in the town where the dog resides. Licenses are only available through the Town Clerk's Office and may be purchased in person or by mail if there is a current rabies certificate on file. Licenses are available after mid January each year.
Windsor County state’s attorney willing to review cases after discovery of prosecutorial violation
Tiffany Tan reporting for VT Digger
The Windsor County State’s Attorney’s Office is willing to review cases handled by a former county prosecutor who was recently found to have withheld evidence from a sexual assault defendant. The judge tossed the case on the eve of trial in February due to the prosecutorial violation.
State’s Attorney Ward Goodenough said that, as part of his office’s established procedures, staff members are already reviewing their special investigative unit’s other sexual assault cases. Former Deputy State’s Attorney Heidi Remick once prosecuted these matters, including the 2018 case that was dismissed last month.
“We're going to continue to review cases,” said Goodenough, who became state’s attorney in 2020. “If people would like us to review any case in particular, we're always doing that on a constant basis with the defense bar.”
Even cases that are already closed, he said, “are open for review by any defense attorney who wishes to do so.”
The defense attorney in the dismissed sexual assault case, for one, believes the Windsor County State’s Attorney’s Office should conduct a systematic review of the cases previously handled by Remick to ensure no other evidence-related violations have occurred.
“It does a disservice not just to defendants, but also it undermines the entire system and it hurts victims,” defense attorney Leah Henderson said in an interview. “I think it would put a lot of clients and other attorneys at ease to know that they have everything that they are entitled to.”
According to court records, as part of evidence discovery in 2019, Henderson had asked Remick for information on any untruthful statements from the case complainant — a girl who reported being raped by a 29-year-old man in 2014.
The records show that Remick responded by saying the state’s attorney’s office didn’t possess such material, and even if it did, wouldn’t be able to provide it to the defendant. She left the office in 2020.
In February, about a week before the man’s trial, Henderson received what she described as unexpected and potentially exculpatory information from the new prosecutors. The defense attorney learned that, while in New Hampshire in 2016, the girl reported being sexually assaulted by another man, a report she later recanted before taking back the recantation.
Shaun Robinson reporting for VT Digger
Vermont’s longest-serving U.S. senator is going back to school.
Former Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, who retired in January after nearly five decades in Congress, has been named a “president’s distinguished fellow” at the University of Vermont, the school announced Thursday in a press release.
In the role, Leahy will advise students and faculty and give guest lectures, as well as participate in research and other projects that were started thanks to his efforts while in the Senate, UVM said. Leahy will also be “a conduit between the university and organizations and communities in all corners of the state,” according to the release.
The position is unpaid, and Leahy started this week, a UVM spokesperson said.
“My career, my family, and my most proud moments are all centered here, in Vermont,” Leahy, who was born in Montpelier, said in the press release. “What better place to continue my work for Vermont than on this great university’s campus?”
Leahy was known for securing outsize amounts of federal funding for Vermont during his Senate tenure, and he’s raked in millions of dollars for UVM in recent years.
In 2022, Leahy secured $9.3 million of congressionally directed spending to establish UVM’s Institute for Rural Partnerships, which is slated to open this summer and study issues including broadband access, clean water and housing in small towns. In 2021, the senator secured $11 million to support the UVM Food Systems Research Center; in 2019, he secured $6.6 million to help create the school’s Center on Rural Addiction.
UVM established a scholarship fund in 2019 in the names of Leahy and his wife, Marcelle. The school has a Lake Champlain research boat that bears Marcelle’s name, too.
Poster & Graphics by Tomo Greenberg
Weathersfield Proctor Library and presenter Patti Arrison are hosting an informal, fun-filled reading of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, As You Like It, Tuesday evenings March 7 through April 4 from 6:30-8 p.m.. About one act per week will be read.
No prior experience is necessary. All are welcome.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players
For more information, contact Librarian Mark Richardson: weathersfieldproctorlibrary@gmail.com
OR Presenter Patti Arrison: parrison93@gmail.com
OR Presenter Patti Arrison: parrison93@gmail.com
“The fool doth think he is wise,
but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Gesine Bullock-Prado Spreads Vermont Love Through a New Cookbook Out March 14
Gesine Bullock-Prado is enthusiastically enamored of many things. The list includes baking, teaching people to bake, maple syrup, Vermont and her pet goose named Mama. Oh, and brown butter. Of the copper-flecked, nutty liquid gold, the pastry chef gushed during a recent conversation in her White River Junction kitchen classroom, "What's not to love about brown butter? It brings happiness to everything."
The host of Food Network's "Baked in Vermont," frequent TV cooking show judge and prolific cookbook author regularly shares her enthusiasms with her 40,000-plus followers on both Facebook and Instagram. Preorders from a passionate fan base have already catapulted her forthcoming seventh title, My Vermont Table: Recipes for All (Six) Seasons, to a top slot in the seasonal cooking new releases category on Amazon. Unlike Bullock-Prado's previous pastry-focused tomes, this one includes many non-baked savory recipes and unabashedly celebrates her home state.
The host of Food Network's "Baked in Vermont," frequent TV cooking show judge and prolific cookbook author regularly shares her enthusiasms with her 40,000-plus followers on both Facebook and Instagram. Preorders from a passionate fan base have already catapulted her forthcoming seventh title, My Vermont Table: Recipes for All (Six) Seasons, to a top slot in the seasonal cooking new releases category on Amazon. Unlike Bullock-Prado's previous pastry-focused tomes, this one includes many non-baked savory recipes and unabashedly celebrates her home state.
The cookbook debuts on March 14, purposefully timed for mud season, one of the two "extra" Vermont seasons that are all too familiar to locals but may be new to many of the chef's devotees. Bullock-Prado, 52, often addresses those fans as "sweet people," as in an October 2022 Instagram post in which she wrote, "Sweet people, this morning at 5 a.m. as I was wiping down the school benches, I thought to myself, 'Crikey, I'm so happy.'"
SHS Exchange Students Share March 30 5:30-6:30 p.m.
FREE but you must RESERVE a spot to attend TICKET
Springfield Library Events
43 Main Street - Springfield, VT 05156Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE
43 Main Street - Springfield, VT 05156
Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE
Wed, Mar 8, 1:00 PM
Wed, Mar 15, 6:00 PM
Thu, Apr 13, 1:00 PM
Tue, Apr 18, 6:30 PM
Thu, May 18, 1:00 PM
Wed, Mar 8, 1:00 PM
Wed, Mar 15, 6:00 PM
Thu, Apr 13, 1:00 PM
Tue, Apr 18, 6:30 PM
Thu, May 18, 1:00 PM
WPL Announces Annual Town Challenge
Little Mermaid Jr. March 24-25 at WS
The WS students will be performing the play The Little Mermaid Jr. on March 24 and 25. Rehearsals began on January 10 after a record number of students auditioning for positions.
Weathersfield Garden Club Meets March 29 at 6 p.m.
The Weathersfield Garden Club is a somewhat new group in town, although most members have been gardening for years.
The club is meeting on March 29 to plan an Earth Day Clean-up project in town.
Want to play at Do Good Fest 2023? 
The Weathersfield Garden Club is a somewhat new group in town, although most members have been gardening for years.
The club is meeting on March 29 to plan an Earth Day Clean-up project in town.
A previous club project was the planting of 200 daffodils at the Roman Tenney Memorial Park at the Exit 8 Park and Ride.
More details to follow.
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Zilly Zonka and the Chocolate Factory, May 10
If you haven't been to a Zack's Place performance, you'll want to attend this one. The shows are always well done and are a great community resource.
Here are some photos from previous performances: Zack's Place Theatre Guild
News You Can Use
ICYMI (In case You Missed It)
Town/School News
Hockey Champions
Lucas Guadette and Isaac Mc Naughton's hockey team the Vermont Flames won the AA Peewee Quebec International tournament over Winter break.
The team went undefeated in tournament play beating the following teams: The Atlantic Selects, Team Ukraine, Korea Zenith, NYC North Park and then Austria Stars in the championship game. Congratulations to Lucas, Isaac and the Vermont Flames. Here is the link to the complete story.
WS Soccer Champions
Congratulations to the following Weathersfield students: Taylor Tomberg, Cole Tomberg, Clayton Rousse, Turtle Petschke, Warner Malloy, Oliver Vandivere and WS alumni Justin Roy.
Last week they competed and won the 14U Co-ed group C Championship at the Fieldhouse in Swanzey, NH.
Hey Weathersfield dogs (and their humans)
Officer AJ says, don't forget to renew your dog's license before April 1
By law, all dogs and wolf hybrids six months of age (if first rabies vaccine 3 months) or older must be licensed by April 1st each year in the town where the dog resides. Licenses are only available through the Town Clerk's Office and may be purchased in person or by mail if there is a current rabies certificate on file. Licenses are available after mid January each year.
Weathersfield does not currently license cats.
In order to license your dog you must present the following items:
In order to license your dog you must present the following items:
A copy of a valid rabies certificate (unless one is already on file).
Proof of Spay/Neuter certificate (if applicable)
Cash or a check made payable to "Town of Weathersfield"
Fee Before April 1st:
Neutered/Spayed: $5.00 + $5.00 state = $10.00
Male/Female: $9.00 + $5.00 state = $14.00
Fee after April 1st:
Neutered/ Spayed: $7.00 + $5.00 state = $12.00 Male/ Female: $13.00 + $5.00 state = $18.00
Proof of Spay/Neuter certificate (if applicable)
Cash or a check made payable to "Town of Weathersfield"
Fee Before April 1st:
Neutered/Spayed: $5.00 + $5.00 state = $10.00
Male/Female: $9.00 + $5.00 state = $14.00
Fee after April 1st:
Neutered/ Spayed: $7.00 + $5.00 state = $12.00 Male/ Female: $13.00 + $5.00 state = $18.00
Local and State News
Tiffany Tan reporting for VT Digger
The Windsor County State’s Attorney’s Office is willing to review cases handled by a former county prosecutor who was recently found to have withheld evidence from a sexual assault defendant. The judge tossed the case on the eve of trial in February due to the prosecutorial violation.
State’s Attorney Ward Goodenough said that, as part of his office’s established procedures, staff members are already reviewing their special investigative unit’s other sexual assault cases. Former Deputy State’s Attorney Heidi Remick once prosecuted these matters, including the 2018 case that was dismissed last month.
“We're going to continue to review cases,” said Goodenough, who became state’s attorney in 2020. “If people would like us to review any case in particular, we're always doing that on a constant basis with the defense bar.”
Even cases that are already closed, he said, “are open for review by any defense attorney who wishes to do so.”
The defense attorney in the dismissed sexual assault case, for one, believes the Windsor County State’s Attorney’s Office should conduct a systematic review of the cases previously handled by Remick to ensure no other evidence-related violations have occurred.
“It does a disservice not just to defendants, but also it undermines the entire system and it hurts victims,” defense attorney Leah Henderson said in an interview. “I think it would put a lot of clients and other attorneys at ease to know that they have everything that they are entitled to.”
According to court records, as part of evidence discovery in 2019, Henderson had asked Remick for information on any untruthful statements from the case complainant — a girl who reported being raped by a 29-year-old man in 2014.
The records show that Remick responded by saying the state’s attorney’s office didn’t possess such material, and even if it did, wouldn’t be able to provide it to the defendant. She left the office in 2020.
In February, about a week before the man’s trial, Henderson received what she described as unexpected and potentially exculpatory information from the new prosecutors. The defense attorney learned that, while in New Hampshire in 2016, the girl reported being sexually assaulted by another man, a report she later recanted before taking back the recantation.
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Ciara McEneany reporting for VT Digger
Vermonters with disabilities could soon have an easier time on the trails if a new bill is passed.
The bill, H.85, would make 10% of each newly constructed trail on state lands accessible to individuals with physical disabilities. The same would apply to trails built using state funds.
Rep. Elizabeth Burrows, D/P-West Windsor, introduced the bill in the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency and Forestry in late January.
The idea for the bill came from Burrows’ experience advocating to make her local trail on Mt. Ascutney in Windsor County accessible to everyone. But regional planning commissioners did nothing, she said.
“I kept pushing harder and harder, and then I got elected to office,” Burrows said. “The first bill that I put in was creating accessible trails, either on state lands or using state funds, so that everybody can enjoy them.”
For Burrows, the bill is driven in part by her own personal struggles with inaccessible trails.
“I am a person who can't get around very easily, and for all of my life I've had to adapt to pretending that I can get around on trails when, really, I'm not getting the same experience,” Burrows said. “Because I'm having to pay attention to where every footstep lands.”
House bill looks to improve accessibility on new trails in Vermont
Ciara McEneany reporting for VT Digger
Vermonters with disabilities could soon have an easier time on the trails if a new bill is passed.
The bill, H.85, would make 10% of each newly constructed trail on state lands accessible to individuals with physical disabilities. The same would apply to trails built using state funds.
Rep. Elizabeth Burrows, D/P-West Windsor, introduced the bill in the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency and Forestry in late January.
The idea for the bill came from Burrows’ experience advocating to make her local trail on Mt. Ascutney in Windsor County accessible to everyone. But regional planning commissioners did nothing, she said.
“I kept pushing harder and harder, and then I got elected to office,” Burrows said. “The first bill that I put in was creating accessible trails, either on state lands or using state funds, so that everybody can enjoy them.”
For Burrows, the bill is driven in part by her own personal struggles with inaccessible trails.
“I am a person who can't get around very easily, and for all of my life I've had to adapt to pretending that I can get around on trails when, really, I'm not getting the same experience,” Burrows said. “Because I'm having to pay attention to where every footstep lands.”
Clean heat standard moves forward on 19-10 Senate vote
Emma Cotton reporting for VT Digger
Amid debates that have reached a fever pitch across the state, lawmakers in the Vermont Senate voted 19-10 on Thursday to advance a bill that aims to transform the way Vermonters heat their homes.
The bill, S.5, which would establish a clean heat standard in Vermont, is headed to the House, where it’s expected to pass. It will then go to the desk of Gov. Phil Scott, who expressed strong opposition at his weekly press briefing on Wednesday.
The Republican governor vetoed a similar bill last session, and lawmakers failed to override his veto by a single vote. Due to a supermajority of Democrats and Progressives in both chambers, the bill has better odds this time.
A recent amendment altered the bill so that it would not actually put the clean heat standard into place, but rather act as a blueprint, requiring the state’s Public Utility Commission to stand up a full program over the next two years. The plan would then come back before the full Legislature for another vote, or for potential modification.
In addition to the Public Utility Commission’s plan, lawmakers would likely have several more studies in hand before the plan returns to them.
Still, noise about the complicated piece of legislation has grown louder and louder in recent weeks as opponents have raised concerns about potential increases in cost that the program could cause Vermonters with low and moderate incomes.
On the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, tensions ran high.
“We don’t have time. My generation does not have time,” Sen. Becca White, D-Windsor, who is in her 20s, said as she urged senators to support the bill. “I ask you, as the youngest member of this body, for you to consider that time, and how the 2030 goals — I apologize, the 2030 requirements, and the 2050 requirements, will impact my life and the people younger than me.”
Emma Cotton reporting for VT Digger
Amid debates that have reached a fever pitch across the state, lawmakers in the Vermont Senate voted 19-10 on Thursday to advance a bill that aims to transform the way Vermonters heat their homes.
The bill, S.5, which would establish a clean heat standard in Vermont, is headed to the House, where it’s expected to pass. It will then go to the desk of Gov. Phil Scott, who expressed strong opposition at his weekly press briefing on Wednesday.
The Republican governor vetoed a similar bill last session, and lawmakers failed to override his veto by a single vote. Due to a supermajority of Democrats and Progressives in both chambers, the bill has better odds this time.
A recent amendment altered the bill so that it would not actually put the clean heat standard into place, but rather act as a blueprint, requiring the state’s Public Utility Commission to stand up a full program over the next two years. The plan would then come back before the full Legislature for another vote, or for potential modification.
In addition to the Public Utility Commission’s plan, lawmakers would likely have several more studies in hand before the plan returns to them.
Still, noise about the complicated piece of legislation has grown louder and louder in recent weeks as opponents have raised concerns about potential increases in cost that the program could cause Vermonters with low and moderate incomes.
On the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, tensions ran high.
“We don’t have time. My generation does not have time,” Sen. Becca White, D-Windsor, who is in her 20s, said as she urged senators to support the bill. “I ask you, as the youngest member of this body, for you to consider that time, and how the 2030 goals — I apologize, the 2030 requirements, and the 2050 requirements, will impact my life and the people younger than me.”
Leahy named a ‘distinguished fellow’ at UVM
Shaun Robinson reporting for VT Digger
Vermont’s longest-serving U.S. senator is going back to school.
Former Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, who retired in January after nearly five decades in Congress, has been named a “president’s distinguished fellow” at the University of Vermont, the school announced Thursday in a press release.
In the role, Leahy will advise students and faculty and give guest lectures, as well as participate in research and other projects that were started thanks to his efforts while in the Senate, UVM said. Leahy will also be “a conduit between the university and organizations and communities in all corners of the state,” according to the release.
The position is unpaid, and Leahy started this week, a UVM spokesperson said.
“My career, my family, and my most proud moments are all centered here, in Vermont,” Leahy, who was born in Montpelier, said in the press release. “What better place to continue my work for Vermont than on this great university’s campus?”
Leahy was known for securing outsize amounts of federal funding for Vermont during his Senate tenure, and he’s raked in millions of dollars for UVM in recent years.
In 2022, Leahy secured $9.3 million of congressionally directed spending to establish UVM’s Institute for Rural Partnerships, which is slated to open this summer and study issues including broadband access, clean water and housing in small towns. In 2021, the senator secured $11 million to support the UVM Food Systems Research Center; in 2019, he secured $6.6 million to help create the school’s Center on Rural Addiction.
UVM established a scholarship fund in 2019 in the names of Leahy and his wife, Marcelle. The school has a Lake Champlain research boat that bears Marcelle’s name, too.
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Willi Carlisle
Billsville House Concerts
Manchester VT March 2, 2023
Willi Carlisle is a poet and a folk singer from Arkansas. He is on tour promoting his second album "Peculiar, Missouri" and before performing in Northampton MA at the Back Porch Festival 2023 he made a stop in Manchester, VT at my favorite Vermont venue-Billsville House Concerts.
He played a couple of songs about drugs and how they have touched him personally-especially losing someone close to him to a fentanyl overdose.
Weaving in some very interesting stories about a few old cowboys he met, he sang about the cowboy life. He also played a few songs from poems set to music.
The Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association puts together a Grand Garden Display (over 15,000 s. ft.) filled with flowering bulbs, shrubs trees, and water features. The 2023 Vermont Flower Show Grand Garden Display theme was Out of Hibernation! Spring Comes to the 100-Acre Wood, an adaptation of the world and magic of Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne.
But if you kept your cool and just meandered around, you could easily see and enjoy all that the show had to offer like: local artists painting "live" in the Grand Garden Display; over 100 vendors related to the horticultural/gardening in the Flower Show Marketplace; over 35 educational seminars and hands-on workshops on a variety of topics; a family room with craft and planting activities; a local bookstore offering a great selection of books; The Federated Garden Clubs of VT display and it you ventured there on Sunday-the crazy Plant Sale at the conclusion of the show.
More photos: CLICK HERE
March 14 Weathersfield School Board Meeting
March 17 No School for Staff Development Day
March 18 Weathersfield Town Challenge
March 24 and 25 Little Mermaid Jr. Performances
March 30 Early Release Day for Students- Parent/Teacher/ Student Conferences
March 31 No School for Students- Parent/Teacher/ Student Conferences
Winter Activities finish up March 10
The final Winter activity day will be on Friday, March 10th. Remember all students have an early release day, so that they can attend their Winter Activity. Please reach out if you have any questions. It has been a great opportunity for all students.
Weathersfield School Board meets on Tuesdays
Bistro Midva Midva is open Wednesday-Saturday 4:30-9:30 p.m. (Closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) Call (802) 299-1553 or visit their FACEBOOK PAGE for more information.
Inn at Weathersfield (802) 263-9217
Maebellines (802) 591-4311
VT Digger Coronavirus Report: CLICK HERE
Concerts and Adventures
Billsville House Concerts
Manchester VT March 2, 2023
Willi Carlisle is a poet and a folk singer from Arkansas. He is on tour promoting his second album "Peculiar, Missouri" and before performing in Northampton MA at the Back Porch Festival 2023 he made a stop in Manchester, VT at my favorite Vermont venue-Billsville House Concerts.
Billsville holds about 75 people. Carlisle's show was SOLD-OUT with standing room only. It was the venue's 155th show (I believe). People go to Billsville to listen to music, to hang with the artists and to celebrate live music in a community setting. Carlisle and his brand of music fit right in.
From his website:
"Like his hero Utah Phillips, Carlisle's extraordinary gift for turning a phrase isn't about high falutin' pontificatin'; it's about looking out for one another and connecting through our shared human condition. On his anticipated second album, the magnum opus Peculiar, Missouri, Carlisle makes the case across twelve epic tracks that love truly can conquer all.
Born and raised on the Midwestern plains, Carlisle is a product of the punk to folk music pipeline that’s long fueled frustrated young men looking to resist."
He opened the show with "What The Rocks Don't Know" accompanied by "these two cow bones and this here tooter" (harmonica). He encouraged the audience to meet new people and make new friends as a way to keep expanding musical communities like Billsville.
It's hard to describe his genre of music, or to pigeon-hole him, or label him but he has a strong voice and can play many stringed instruments and the accordion like "nobody's business."
He's finishing up his swing through the northeast then heading south and west. He's even heading to the UK to play at the Black Deer Festival in Tunbridge Wells, UK in June.
More photos: CLICK HERE
Billsville House Concert Videos: CLICK HERE
Check him out if you see he's playing in a venue near you.
Vermont Flower Show
Champlain Valley Expo
Williston, VT March 3, 2023
After few years off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vermont Flower Show returned to a LIVE event hosted at the Champlain Valley Expo Center in Essex Junction, VT.
My friends and I had planned to go on Friday, March 3 thinking it would be the least crowded day of the weekend but with the winter storm looming-lots of people decided to head to the show on Friday rather than drive in the wintery mix on Saturday.
It was insane, there were so many people at the show-even the veteran vendors were astonished.
This was my first Vermont Garden Show; it won't be my last.
More photos: CLICK HERE
Town of Weathersfield
Select Board
Select Board Minutes: The minutes can now be found at https://www.weathersfieldvt.org/node/586/minutes
All regular meetings are broadcasted live on Comcast channel 1087, VTEL Channel 161, and SAPA.org on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.David Fuller Vice Chair
Kelly O'Brien Clerk
Wendy Smith Member
Paul Tillman Member
Select Board Meets 1st and 3rd Mondays of the Month 6:30 p.m. March 9 (agenda not posted at press time Monday, March 6, 8 a.m.)
March 20
Select Board Minutes: The minutes can now be found at https://www.weathersfieldvt.org/node/586/minutes
David Fuller Vice Chair
Kelly O'Brien Clerk
Wendy Smith Member
Paul Tillman Member
March 9 (agenda not posted at press time Monday, March 6, 8 a.m.)Kelly O'Brien Clerk
Wendy Smith Member
Paul Tillman Member
Select Board Meets 1st and 3rd Mondays of the Month 6:30 p.m.
March 20
*Vermont Open Meeting LawMinute posting: Minutes of all public meetings shall be matters of public record, shall be kept by the clerk or secretary of the public body, and shall be available for inspection by any person and for purchase of copies at cost upon request after five calendar days from the date of any meeting. Meeting minutes shall be posted no later than five calendar days from the date of the meeting to a website, if one exists, that the public body maintains or has designated as the official website of the body. Except for draft minutes that have been substituted with updated minutes, posted minutes shall not be removed from the website sooner than one year from the date of the meeting for which the minutes were taken.
Weathersfield Police Blotter
Follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeathersfieldPoliceVT
Weathersfield School
Weekly Newsletter: March 3
Save the Dates
March 7 Voting DayMarch 14 Weathersfield School Board Meeting
March 17 No School for Staff Development Day
March 18 Weathersfield Town Challenge
March 24 and 25 Little Mermaid Jr. Performances
March 30 Early Release Day for Students- Parent/Teacher/ Student Conferences
March 31 No School for Students- Parent/Teacher/ Student Conferences
Winter Activities finish up March 10
The final Winter activity day will be on Friday, March 10th. Remember all students have an early release day, so that they can attend their Winter Activity. Please reach out if you have any questions. It has been a great opportunity for all students.
Current Employment Opportunities at Weathersfield School
If you or if you know of anyone that has always wanted to work in a school setting, now is the time to apply.
If you or if you know of anyone that has always wanted to work in a school setting, now is the time to apply.
WS currently has three different opportunities for employment.
If you are interested, please apply on https://www.schoolspring.com/
World Language Teacher
Paraprofessional
World Language Teacher
Paraprofessional
Meeting Agendas may be found HERE
Weathersfield School Board meets on TuesdaysIn Person at Weathersfield School (135 Schoolhouse Road, Ascutney)
Location: 135 Schoolhouse RD Ascutney March 14, 2023
School Board MeetingsMeeting Minutes
February 14
January 10, 2023 (minutes not posted at press time)
January 10, 2023 (minutes not posted at press time)
Weathersfield Proctor Library
Route 5 (5181 US-5 Ascutney VT 05030)
Route 5 (5181 US-5 Ascutney VT 05030)
WPL Drop in Scrabble
Mondays at 1 p.m.
Mondays at 1 p.m.
Please call Maureen Bogosian for details
@ 603-252-0936
Please call Maureen Bogosian for details
@ 603-252-0936
@ 603-252-0936
Weathersfield Historical SocietyFollow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weathersfieldhistoricalsociety
Weathersfield Historical Society
Follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weathersfieldhistoricalsocietyWeathersfield Center Church and Meeting HouseFollow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeathersfieldCenterChurch
Weathersfield Center Church and Meeting House
Follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeathersfieldCenterChurchThings to Do In and Around Weathersfield
Get Outdoors, Entertainment, Classes, Workshops
Upper Valley Spike Hikes
The Upper Valley Trails Alliance's Kaitie Eddington checks in with a little gift: a compilation of trails and trail networks good for winter walking and hiking that also have easily accessible parking.
Eight suggestions, from Hanover's Britton Forest to Woodstock's Ottauquechee River Trail to Eastman's northern trails in Grantham, plus plenty of others. And an added bonus: an updated list of stores in the region that sell spikes for your boots (and other hiking stuff).
All shows are at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise stated.
Berlin Wagner Group: Gods and Myths March 12 4 p.m. TICKETS
Ladysmith Black Mambazo March 14 TICKETS
David Sedaris, March 31 TICKETS
Guster, Sunday, April 2, 7 p.m. TICKETS
Youth Education Serie: Dance of Hope, April 6, 10 a.m. TICKETS
Dance of Hope, April 6, 6:30 p.m. FREE TICKETS
(you must reserve a seat to attend)
Fly Fishing Film Tour April 13 7 p.m. TICKETS
City Center Ballet presents-Alice in Wonderland May 5-7 INFO and Tickets
Silent Film-Saftey Last! May 12 TICKETS
Zach Nugent's Dead Set May 19 TICKETS
GA Orchestra Seating and Reserved Balcony Seating
Paul Reiser, Saturday, May 20 TICKETS
Ali Siddiq June 4 6 p.m. TICKETS
Meet and Greet Tickets available, hosted by Hartford Dismas House
Pat Metheny Side-Eye, Wednesday June 7 TICKETS
LOH-Hootenanny June 10: Beecharmer, Cold Chocolate, Jacob Jolliff Band
4-8:30 p.m. Gates at noon, River Park West, Lebanon NH
LOH PRIDE Picnic 6 p.m. June 16 Learn More
with a Silent Disco 9-11 p.m. HEADPHONES
Cavalcade July 7-9, 2023 TICKETS
Bizet's Carmen July 16-21, 2023 TICKETS
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel July 27-30, 2023 TICKETS
Exercise
Yoga
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Within Reach Yoga
at the 1879 Schoolhouse in Perkinsville, VT
You must Register for each class at least a day ahead by emailing Lisa. (Class sizes limited to 7.)
March Classes Mondays and Tuesdays
Candle Glow Gentle Flow
Monday evenings 5:30-6:30 p.m.
March 6, 13, 20, 27
Slow Flow, Rest + Restore Tuesday Morning 9-10 a.m.March 4, 14, 21, 28
Walk-ins can register up to 24 hrs. ahead by emailing Lisa and are available on a first-come, first served basis (classes fill early!).
Please arrive 5-15 minutes early with your own props and mats.
REFRAIN FROM: Wearing ice cleats (into the building), shoes, perfume, or cologne in the practice space. Do not come to class if you are feeling ill.
Slow Flow, Rest + Restore
Tuesday Morning 9-10 a.m.
March 4, 14, 21, 28
Workshops Online
Vermont Online Workshops
Lots of events and movies online. Contact: AARP Vermont Email: vtaarp@aarp.org with questions.
Visit Our Local Restaurants
The Copper Fox 56 Main St., Ste. 1 Springfield, VT 05156 (802) 885-1031
Dinner 5:00pm - 9:00pm Sunday Hours 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Wednesday through Sunday (Closed Monday and Tuesday)Dinner 5:00pm - 9:00pm Sunday Hours 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Daily Grind Café Call ahead for take out (802) 674-9859
93 Pleasant St. Claremont, NH (in the space formerly occupied by Dusty’s Café)
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
Exit Ate (802) 674-4673 Daily 6 a.m.-3 p.m.
Breakfast and Brunch Restaurant
202 route 131, Ascutney, VT, United States, Vermont
exitaterestaurant@gmail.com
Inn at Weathersfield (802) 263-9217 Daily Grind Café
Call ahead for take out (802) 674-985993 Pleasant St. Claremont, NH (in the space formerly occupied by Dusty’s Café)
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
Breakfast and Brunch Restaurant
202 route 131, Ascutney, VT, United States, Vermont
exitaterestaurant@gmail.com
Dine inside or outside Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, call for a reservation 802-263-9217. 1342 VT Route 106 Perkinsville, VT 05151
12 Clinton Street, Springfield, VT Open for breakfast and lunch, daily except Sundays.
Outer Limits Brewing (802)-287-6100
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays; Wednesdays and Thursdays 3-8 p.m.; Saturdays noon-8 p.m. with LIVE MUSIC; Sundays noon-6 p.m..
60 Village Green, Proctorsville, VT 05153
4261 Route 106 in Perkinsville, Downers Four Corners to the locals.
Outer Limits Brewing (802)-287-6100
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays; Wednesdays and Thursdays 3-8 p.m.; Saturdays noon-8 p.m. with LIVE MUSIC; Sundays noon-6 p.m..
60 Village Green, Proctorsville, VT 05153
Springfield Diner-seating inside/outside daily 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Ice cream shop open Thursday-Sunday 1-7 pm. Daily specials.
Villagers Ice Cream Restaurant-(802) 795-0063 CLOSED For the Season
Tuesdays-Sundays 11:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. (they stop cooking at 7:30 p.m.) 4261 Route 106 in Perkinsville, Downers Four Corners to the locals.
Unicorn Sundae at Villagers Rtes. 131 and 106, Downers Four Corners, in Perkinsville
Food Assistance
Weathersfield Food Shelf in Perkinsville.
The food shelf is open 2:00 pm-4:00 pm on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month. The Weathersfield Food Shelf is located in the 1879 Perkinsville Schoolhouse at 1862 Route 106 in Perkinsville. The Food Shelf has lots of good food to offer!
Call the Weathersfield Town Office to be refereed to a volunteer, visit the Weathersfield Food Shelf Facebook page and leave a message, email weathersfieldfoodshelf@gmail.com
Donations of non-perishable food are always welcomed and may be dropped off at the facility during open hours or placed in the collection box at Martin Memorial Hall. For more information, call 802-263-5584 or email weathersfieldfoodshelf@gmail.com.
Hartland Food Shelf in Hartland. 4 Corners UU Church Fridays 8-10 a.m., Saturdays 10 a.m-2 p.m.
Reading-West Windsor Food Shelf in Reading. Mondays 2-4 p.m. and Thursday 4-6 p.m. Stone School 3456 Tyson Rd, Reading.
Weathersfield Food Shelf in Perkinsville.
Call the Weathersfield Town Office to be refereed to a volunteer, visit the Weathersfield Food Shelf Facebook page and leave a message, email weathersfieldfoodshelf@gmail.com
Donations of non-perishable food are always welcomed and may be dropped off at the facility during open hours or placed in the collection box at Martin Memorial Hall. For more information, call 802-263-5584 or email weathersfieldfoodshelf@gmail.com.
Hartland Food Shelf in Hartland. 4 Corners UU Church Fridays 8-10 a.m., Saturdays 10 a.m-2 p.m.
Reading-West Windsor Food Shelf in Reading. Mondays 2-4 p.m. and Thursday 4-6 p.m. Stone School 3456 Tyson Rd, Reading.
The food shelf is open 2:00 pm-4:00 pm on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month.
The Weathersfield Food Shelf is located in the 1879 Perkinsville Schoolhouse at 1862 Route 106 in Perkinsville. The Food Shelf has lots of good food to offer!
Call the Weathersfield Town Office to be refereed to a volunteer, visit the Weathersfield Food Shelf Facebook page and leave a message, email weathersfieldfoodshelf@gmail.com
Donations of non-perishable food are always welcomed and may be dropped off at the facility during open hours or placed in the collection box at Martin Memorial Hall. For more information, call 802-263-5584 or email weathersfieldfoodshelf@gmail.com.
Hartland Food Shelf in Hartland. 4 Corners UU Church Fridays 8-10 a.m., Saturdays 10 a.m-2 p.m.
Reading-West Windsor Food Shelf in Reading. Mondays 2-4 p.m. and Thursday 4-6 p.m. Stone School 3456 Tyson Rd, Reading.
Vermont State Resources and
COVID-19 Response Information
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Vermont Department of Health COVID-19 Information Page.
Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center is now offering walk-in service on weekday afternoons for people ages 2 and older, according to a news release.
The visits are available for urgent, but non-emergency medical needs Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. Patients can check in at the hospital’s central registration, through the main entrance.
Some of the conditions appropriate for care through walk-in services are minor cuts and burns; urinary tract infections; strains and sprains; minor fractures; rashes; and ear, sinus and eye infections. In addition, X-ray and lab services are available on-site.
A nurse will be on hand to determine if a patient’s condition calls for transfer to the emergency department.
The visits are available for urgent, but non-emergency medical needs Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. Patients can check in at the hospital’s central registration, through the main entrance.
Some of the conditions appropriate for care through walk-in services are minor cuts and burns; urinary tract infections; strains and sprains; minor fractures; rashes; and ear, sinus and eye infections. In addition, X-ray and lab services are available on-site.
A nurse will be on hand to determine if a patient’s condition calls for transfer to the emergency department.
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Nancy Nutile-McMenemy is an Upper Valley freelance photographer and writer who loves paddle, hike, attend concerts and local events in and around Weathersfield and the Upper Valley.
or visit: www.photosbynanci.com