Next Wednesday, May 1, Stowe voters will decide the fate of the town’s nascent short-term rental ordinance at a special meeting held at Stowe High School at 6 p.m.

While the Vermont Transportation Agency oversees work on the state’s network of inter-town highways, Lamoille County towns all have their own roadwork to-do lists.

As interest has grown in ranked choice voting in the Legislature, towns, interest groups and voters, the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office and the League of Women Voters of Vermont is hosting a two-part virtual to “inform debate and raise the profile of this system of voting.”

At the final of four monthly legislative breakfasts hosted Monday by the Lamoille Economic Development Corporation, it was perhaps fitting that, as folks munched on pastries, the biggest pastry of all was the central topic of the day.

After December flooding forced the closure of a bridge that effectively bisected Stowe’s Quiet Path, town employees scrambled to build a new one a few hundred feet away instead of waiting a much longer time to go through local and state permitting processes.

Bob Burley, a tenant at the Morrisville-Stowe Airport, said the airport was packed last week with planes, passengers and pilots who flew in to catch the sight of the total solar eclipse on April 8. He said all northern Vermont airports reported similar attendance.

Sunday brought an end to the lift-served portion of this year’s ski season at Stowe Mountain Resort. A sun-drenched closing day would have been the ideal final act but from The Scribe’s perspective that did not seem to be the case.

The Mountain Road in Stowe is well known for its après ski establishments. A skiing buddy of mine, the late John Fox, had been on the ski patrol at Glen Ellen before joining the Mt. Mansfield Ski Patrol. He always said his wife couldn’t understand why it took him longer to get back to his home in South Burlington from Stowe than it had from Glen Ellen!

The Champlain Trio will open the Noon Music in May concerts presented by Stowe Performing Arts on Wednesday, May 1. The concert series, now in its fifth decade, is held in Stowe Community Church from noon to 1 p.m. every Wednesday during the month of May.

The Aurora Chamber Singers will present its spring concert, “Seeds of Modernism,” at the College Street Congregational Church, 265 College St., in Burlington, on Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m.

Stowe’s Green Up Day is Saturday, May 4. Meet at 8 a.m., rain or shine, at The Alchemist Brewery on Cottage Club Road.

Throwback Thursday

The Route 15 project is estimated to run through this fall and include some work next summer.

Drivers may have noticed a few forced pit stops recently.

Spring meets winter as willows bud with ski trails on Mansfield as a backdrop.

A quartet of youngsters enjoy a spring bike on the Stowe Events Field.

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