Grafton News

Since Grafton Village Cheese Co. opened its new facility in Brattleboro, staffers have noticed something missing.

Three new rock and mineral exhibits will highlight the summer season at the Vermont Museum of Mining and Minerals.

There are only two Saturdays left to drop off auction and yard sale items for Bennington Area Habitat's Third Annual Auction scheduled for Saturday, July 18, at A Safe Place self storage, located off of Route 7 in Dorset.

Featured: Paintings by Grafton artist Peter Jeziorski. Through July. Where: Corner of Bridge and Island streets, Bellows Falls.

A Townshend landmark, surrounded by Sycamore trees, Harmonyville Store reopened Thursday, June 4, with two fresh faces behind the counter.

The villages of Wardsboro will celebrate the 60th anniversary of their 4th of July Street Fair and Parade on Saturday, July 4. It is the longest continuously-run 4th of July celebration in the state.

Tickets are available now for the July 3 Vermont Symphony Orchestra open-air concert and fireworks at Grafton Ponds.

Where: All Souls Church, 29 South St., West Brattleboro. Featured: "School's Out ... Summer Begins," an exhibit of figurative and landscape paintings by Marjorie Sayer.

On Wednesday, June 10, at 7 p.m. in the Meeting Room, Brooks Memorial Library will host a book discussion on Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age with Vermont Humanities Scholar Deborah Luskin.

The state of Vermont is opening eight sites on state land to maple sugar making, giving interested syrup makers until July 10 to get their applications in.

There's only one thing better than cheese. That's cheese in between two slices of bread, grilled to golden brown perfection.

WATERBURY -- The state Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation will open eight sites on state land for sugar making.

The Leland and Gray Players offer Frankenstein, their last production of the year; their first production in L and G's recently renovated Dutton Gymnasium in Townshend.

Thursday: Athens/Grafton Joint Contract School District, Athens School District and Grafton School District, special school board meeting, 3:45 p.m., at the Cricketers in Grafton.

The Saxtons River Art Guild, under the auspices of the Greater Rockingham Area Services, recently hung a new show at Hospital Court in Bellows Falls.

A call for artwork has been issued to all area artists interested in exhibiting in Exhibition at Grafton 2009, a fine art exhibition to be held Aug.

Thursday: Athens/Grafton Joint Contract School District, Athens School District, and Grafton School District, School Board meeting, 6:30 p.m., at Grafton Elementary School.

Spinning your wheels has a negative connotation, but on Saturday, spinning your wheels will be a great way to raise money for breast and ovarian cancer research.

Despite its small size, the FAST Squad of Grafton was recently honored as the 2009 First Responder of the Year by Vermont Emergency Medical Services.

Open Wall Exhibit Gallery at the VAULT is pleased to announce the next 2009 Open Wall exhibit theme "All in Good Fun." The Open Wall supports VAULT's mission to encourage community arts by inviting all artists and crafters in the immediate Springfield area to display and sell their work in a non-juried setting.