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Main Street Revitalization

Bennington transforms its downtown with a project championed by its own passionate residents.

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Celebrating 80 Years of rk Miles

A local institution with a rich history looks back on its 80th anniversary and shares plans for the future.

Stories

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Amanda Birch seed to skin

Manchester Life recently sat with Amada Birch to get to know her better and find out more about her seed to skin secrets to her amazing Signature facial treatments.

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To Two Cow Lane and back

Here is a wonderful walk to take in Manchester Center— something to enjoy after your shopping and your gallery hopping, after you are done exploring along the Riverwalk at the Town Green, and after you have had a bite to eat in town. This is a short, self-guided stroll on Bonnet Street, the perfect block or two to see what adds to Manchester’s charm.

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visit Newfane

Newfane is as old as Vermont, settled eight years before the town was officially organized. The early residents were farmers, pioneers really, on rugged terrain that the Reverend Timothy Dwight IV (1752– 1817) described as “uneven” in the diaries he kept during his famous journeys through New England.

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Manchester Medical Center

As a Manchester native, Dr. Janel Kittredge knows it has not always been easy to get access to a doctor here, especially when residents or visitors need one the most.

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Weddings

Exchange your vows amidst the natural beauty of Southern Vermont’s Green Mountains. For any season, explore the possibilities. Create and share your magic at a chic country barn or inn, on a heavenly vista, romantic lake front, or an elegant ballroom. Turn the pages and fall in love.

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Southern Vermont: Making Music

Southern Vermont, Making Music The Southern Vermont music scene is exploding with talent and has never been more exciting.

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Roadside Redux

Seesaw’s has been a landmark and so much more since it first opened in 1924, and each successive owner did exactly what the newest proprietors have done: kept pretty much everything everyone loved about the old Seesaw’s, and layered on a bit of a new twist…

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A Riverwalk on the Battenkill

There is something quite peculiar about the Battenkill in Manchester Center: big, fat trout swim in it, pretty songbirds, ducks, and geese drink from it, beautiful wildflowers grow along it, and people—people like us who generally love nature— just don’t see it. But what if there was a safe, open trail along the riverbanks? A pleasant path, just far enough away from traffic and shopping centers and noise—would you walk it? Did you answer yes? That’s what the folks at Manchester’s Riverwalk Committee, a nonprofit group, are counting on, and they are working hard to give all of us that opportunity…