One Hinesburger’s passion for peaks Recently at The Hinesburg Record we have been publishing photos from our readers in a new section named “Community Camera,” featured this month on page 11 of our print edition. Thank you to all who have been submitting photos and please, keep them coming! We want to see…
A Big Little Yoga Studio When Lindsay Gardner opened Sweet Yoga in 2013, she had only one goal: find a place to take her private yoga clients. She had accumulated clients from her years at the Sports and Fitness Edge, but they didn’t have a space available for her to use. When she first…
Welcome to Mindful Journeywork Peggy Dippen returned to Vermont in June 2020, driving a U-Haul with her then four-year-old son beside her. Amid the challenges of COVID and her second divorce, she reflected on words by Starhawk, an author, activist, and prominent voice in spirituality and ecofeminism, about community: Somewhere there are people to…
The Rotary Club of Shelburne-Charlotte-Hinesburg The Rotary association is an altruistic global organization, touching people and events around the world. A lot of information can be found on the internet describing this large and impressive organization, including the local website, what it does and why, so I’ll take some time to provide you with…
Hinesburgers Explore a Local Treasure On the Saturday before Father’s Day my long-promised excursion to Williams Woods in Charlotte came to be. My two daughters, my wife and I got in the car and set off around 10 a.m. But first we had to go back to the house to connect to Google maps…
The Town of Hinesburg maintains nine cemeteries with approximately 4,000 graves dating back to 1795. The Village Cemetery land was donated to the town by Jedidiah Boynton in 1825. Graves were moved to the Village Cemetery from a previous cemetery that was in front of where the Sarah Carpenter Memorial Library was on Route 116….
Like-minded artisans create home and kitchen accessories Recently, a new kind of store opened on Kailey’s Way (behind Kinney Drugs) in Hinesburg. It’s a store and studio, featuring items for your home, created with skill and love by artisans from across the country. This store is part of DandyLion, the brainchild of Ashley Farland….
Four photographers who make time stand still Pulitzer Prize-winning author and noted photographer Eudora Welty once wrote, “A good snapshot keeps a moment that’s gone, from running away.” Photographs document our history, and serve as a record of our personal journey. These photos become among our most cherished possessions and we place them in positions…
At Carse Wetlands in Hinesburg, UVM students are working to restore the landscape by testing methods of invasive species removal. These students are a part of the second cohort of the Fellowship in Restoration Ecologies and Cultures (FREC). With the first semester completed, the students are finalizing their projects that will attempt to restore…
Each year thousands of bats die in and around the rotating blades of wind-turbines, mostly at night and mostly when flying insects, a primary bat food, are present. At NRG, Brogan saw a need within the wind-turbine industry for a way to monitor bats that interact with wind-turbines. While NRG had partnered with…