MARSHFIELD – Dale and Janet Newton expect to distribute more than one-million seeds to Vermont libraries, schools and businesses that the public can then plant around the state.  They are almost finished distributing sunflower seeds this season for their homegrown solidarity initiative, Vermont Plants Sunflowers for Ukraine, which they started[Read More…]

CABOT – On February 11, Ellen Cairns, chair of the Cabot School Board, posted an invitation on the Front Porch Forum neighborhood network: “Come on down to chat with us and have a delicious cup of coffee on the house.” Cairns wanted to talk to local residents about the Town[Read More…]

Select board Member, R.D. Eno, in a message posted recently to the Cabot Connects Town Bulletin Board group on Facebook wrote, “Good news for Cabot Village! Postal Realty Trust, Inc., the company that owns the Post Office premises and leases to the United State Postal Service, has informed the Cabot[Read More…]

CABOT – The town hosted dueling restaurant debuts last month with the reopening of Headwaters Restaurant and Pub and the pop-up launch of Stag & Thistle across the street. The simultaneous eatery openings on Friday, March 22, set up something of a competition on Cabot’s Main Street. Shane and Ruby Baker,[Read More…]

CABOT – Calvin Alexander opened his sugarhouse to guests for the annual Spring Maple Open House Weekend on Sunday, March 24, after a snowy Saturday open house that brought no visitors: which was just as well because his tractor got a flat that day. His aunt, K.C. Wright, visiting from[Read More…]

CABOT – Several months ago, in July 2023, dark muddy water filled the basement of Cabot’s historic Willey Building. Tuesday, the building hummed, not with rushing water, but with the activity of community members gathering for Town Meeting Day in the third-floor auditorium. Flooding was on residents’ minds, though, as[Read More…]

by K. Fiegenbaum, VTDigger CABOT — Residents to vote — again — on whether to close their high school. The binding article was added to the school district ballot through a community petition, marking the fourth time in the past 11 years that voters will weigh in on the question.[Read More…]

CABOT — The Cabot School Board has voted on a budget to present to the voters on Town Meeting Day. There are four options. The least expensive option was to close grades 7 to 12 and designate another school (potentially Twinfield) for these students to attend. This option would allow[Read More…]