by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Dec 5, 2024 | Arts and Culture, BIPOC Vermonters, LGBTQ, Relocate
Above: Musician Lutalo Jones in Middlebury. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Living in Vermont has taught Lutalo — both in life and in writing music — to keep it simple and “create space for silence.” The Minnesota-born songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Dec 2, 2024 | Business, Civic Engagement, Community
Above: WheelPad’s manufacturing facility renovation and site redevelopment, which will allow for in-state construction of modular accessible home additions, along with worker housing and a workforce training program, has been selected as one of Southern Vermont’s...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Nov 25, 2024 | Sectors
Photo by Kristopher Radder for the Brattleboro Reformer GUILFORD — Vermont State officials have an energy problem. In 2011, the state developed its Comprehensive Energy Plan with the goal of obtaining 90 percent of the state’s energy needs from renewable sources...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Nov 18, 2024 | Community, Relocate
Reflections from Southern Vermont Emerging Leader Katie Allaway As a high school student in Wyoming, I wanted to study linguistics at Middlebury College. I made a collage from their enrollment packet of the fall-colored trees, picturesque farms, and roads-less-taken...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Nov 12, 2024 | Community
Reposted with permission from the Halifax News (Nov 2024) by Jack Burnett, Peterborough, NH Passing by the old family farm Around 12:15 on Thursday, September 19, my wife Diane and I happened to be passing through Halifax, Vermont, on our way back from New York to...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Oct 7, 2024 | Arts and Culture, Community, Relocate
Above: The gazebo on the Brattleboro town green. Longing for that cozy Stars Hollow life as we slide into fall? Now, we know we’re biased, but we actually think Vermont is the best place to find a quaint, close-knit, quirky New England town whose citizens...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Aug 23, 2024 | Community, Relocate
Imagine a picturesque small Vermont town, with graceful white wooden Colonial buildings gathered around a village green. There’s the church, the town hall, the library, an inn and a general store … and, of course, a few sophisticatedly jumbled antique stores. The...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Jul 23, 2024 | Community, Relocate
Reflections from 2024 Southern Vermont Emerging Leader Kris Plante My preconceptions of Vermont were accurate My partner and I moved to Southern Vermont in 2015 after graduating from college, even though neither of us had ever spent much time here and we didn’t have...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Jul 12, 2024 | Arts and Culture
Above: Biologist and musician Tarun Nayar produces music using synthesizers and organisms including mushrooms during a show at Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro. Photo: Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer. For Mushroom Church, Canada-based biologist and musician Tarun...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Jul 5, 2024 | Education, Jobs, Relocate, Schools, Teaching & Education
Nurture the future as an education administrator while enjoying the amazing quality of life in small-town Vermont! Community College of Vermont Helping Vermonters achieve educational and professional equity since 1970. Work in a beautifully restored historic downtown...
