A hearing is planned for May 28 in Vermont Superior Court on efforts by current Woodstock Foundation leaders to try to delay, for at least six months, a lawsuit brought by two former longtime Foundation leaders over allegations of mismanagement and malfeasance at the Woodstock Inn & Resort and the Billings Farm & Museum. Vermont Superior Court Judge H. Dickson …
Two weeks after the cancellation of this year’s Bookstock event, Peter Rousmaniere, Bookstock’s co-founder and board chair, and Chard deNiord, Bookstock’s 2024 poetry director, are unveiling plans for the Woodstock Poetry Festival. Scheduled for the weekend originally slated for Bookstock, the new event will be hosted in partnership with Sundog Poetry and the North Chapel. The festival currently has about …
The potential redevelopment of the 26-unit Mellishwood Senior Residences at 36 Pleasant Street in Woodstock Village has taken a significant leap forward with the 2024 award of federal housing tax credits for the construction effort to Twin Pines Housing, which purchased the property in November of 2022. Assuming all things go as planned, the senior housing complex will consist of …
Myrtle Biathrow, 88, died Saturday afternoon April 27, 2024 at Pine Heights in Brattleboro, Vt. Myrtle was born on January 19, 1936 in Hanover, N.H. the daughter of Phillip H. and Laura (Powell) Biathrow. She graduated from Woodstock High School in 1954 and worked for the Corner Dairy Bar and the Woodstock Pharmacy until 1965 when she began caring for …
The graveside service for Christa A. Blanchard who passed away on February 19, 2024, will be held on Monday, May 6 at 1 p.m. at the Vermont Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Randolph, Vermont. The Cabot Funeral Home in Woodstock is assisting the family.
Our sunshine, Kelly Flora (Bagley) Kangas left this world far too early on Thursday, April 25 from complications of an illness at the Jack Byrne Center. Kelly entered this world the last of four children on September 6, 1979, just minutes behind her twin brother, Daniel. Known for her independent, fun-loving personality, Kelly was a child who melted the hearts …
Phyllis Bulmer passed away at home on April 13 in Ashland, Oregon at age 93. She lived with her husband Jim in Bridgewater, Vermont for 28 wonderful years at their beloved home, Uppermowing. In 2020 they moved to Mountain Meadows in Ashland to be close to family. Phyllis was born on October 31, 1930, in Red Bank, New Jersey to …
Hartland residents will be returning to polls once again after a petition with more than 200 signatures succeeded in overturning the April 2 passage of the Hartland Elementary School budget. The new vote will take place Tuesday, May 28 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Damon Hall in Hartland. It will be conducted by Australian ballot and preceded by …
By Margie Elsberg, Special to the Standard Fran “Fay” Malkin was four when she and her mother, Lea Maltz Letzter, went into hiding in a hayloft above a pigsty behind a home at No. 4 Street of Our Lady, in the town of Sokal, Poland. Nazis had poured into Sokal in the autumn of 1939, and the following June, little …
The privately owned Mount Ascutney ski area was a centerpiece of economic activity in West Windsor for more than 80 years before it shuttered and went into bankruptcy in 2010. As the quintessential Vermont small town reeled from financial and social impacts of the ski area’s closure, it took a visionary group of committed community leaders to revive and reinvent …
