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GUILFORD — Have you saved the date for the now-annual summer concert at the Guilford Fairgrounds?

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GUILFORD — A musical afternoon of original songs will be performed by singer-songwriter Andy Davis on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Guilford Community Church in a benefit concert.

GUILFORD — The Sugar-on-Snow Supper at Guilford Community Church will be held on Saturday, March 18. There are three seatings to choose from, at 4, 5:30 and 7 p.m. Prices are $15 for adults, $7 for children age 11 and under, and $3 for preschoolers. For reservations, call 802-254-9019 or email guilfordchurchsupper@gmail.com.

GUILFORD — About 175 people attended Town Meeting in Guilford on Tuesday morning.

Joel Thurber keeps a watchful eye on the sugaring process at Viking Farm, a 1,400-acre sugarbush farm in Guilford. Paul Belogour, the owner of Vermont News & Media, the parent company of the Brattleboro Reformer, Bennington Banner and Manchester Journal, also owns Viking Farm and Vermont Maple Syrup.

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GUILFORD — Two candidates are on the ballot for a three-year seat on the Guilford Select Board and three candidates are on the ballot for a two-year seat.

GUILFORD — For one of the new owners of the Guilford Country Store, Ali West, stepping into the store is a return to her roots.

GUILFORD — The Guilford Country Store has been closed since the end of last year, but the new owners are promising to have it reopened on Feb. 1.

GUILFORD — During a special meeting held Thursday morning, the Guilford Select Board denied that Assistant Town Administrator Sheila Morse had violated Vermont’s open meeting law by contacting the town’s attorney for advice.

GUILFORD — The annual Write Action Potluck Picnic will be held Saturday from noon to 4 at 640 Melendy Hill Road in Guilford. A highlight is the open reading, with five-minute slots for poems or short prose.

GUILFORD FAIR — The Guilford Fair was first held on Labor Day Sept. 7, 1942, and except for one year during the war, a rainy day in the 1970s and the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been held every year since.

MONTPELIER — Vermonters must pass the basic hunter education course before they can purchase their first hunting license. Vermont’s volunteer hunter education instructors are now holding a limited number of courses throughout the state.

GUILFORD — Guilford Cares will sponsor a Carpenter Hill Trail Walk on Tuesday, Aug. 9, beginning at 10:30 a.m.

GUILFORD — A crew from Vermont Natural Homes recently delivered and assembled timber frames for a pavilion for a new new Guilford Community Park. The timber frame pavilion will be 24×48. The pavilion is phase one of the Guilford Community Park project which will also include the seventh circuit labyrinth play spaces, a basketball area, and and possibly EV charging stations.

GUILFORD — Mid-morning on a recent Friday, business was steady at the Guilford Country Store in the village of Algiers, with folks walking in empty-handed and coming out with coffee, some with a breakfast sandwich.

PUTNEY — When Guilford musician Michael Roberts brings new songs to his band, he finds they often take on a life of their own.

MANCHESTER — The day after the midterm elections, singer-songwriter Dar Williams envisions voters being surprised by the results — the reason being: an incredible turnout of young voters.

GUILFORD — Ava Joyal, who sold her Brattle Bears at the May 6 Gallery Walk in Brattleboro in order to raise money for her trip, recently returned home with her father from a ski jumping camp in Alaska.

A crew from Vermont Natural Homes assembles the timber frame that will be the roof for the new pavilion of the new Guilford Community Park on ...

GUILDFORD — The Friends of the Guilford Free Library raised money to “Send a Kid to Camp” with a Raffle Concert at the Guilford Fairgrounds on Saturday, June 11.

Jerry Smith, co-owner of Deer Ridge Farm, in Guilford, Vt., keeps an eye on the sap while it pours out of the spout during the sugaring process on ...

This past winter, Pixies decamped to Guilford, Vermont to record their first new album in three years, Doggerel. While the album won’t be arriving until Sept. 30, fans can get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the record in a new short documentary.

The clip opens with frontman Black Francis offering one side of how the Doggerel sessions came about. “Fortunately my kids are old enough now that they’re not gonna burn the place down or anything, so I just said, ‘Guys, just leave me alone for a couple of weeks. I gotta do this thing,’” he recalls, adding with a laugh, “And they’re like, ‘Yeah, whatever fine. We don’t want you bothering us anyway!’”

Pixies recorded Doggerel — their eighth studio album — at Guilford Sound, an eco-friendly studio in Guilford, Vermont. It was an ideal space, their manager Richard Jones explains in the doc, outfitted with a big room where Pixies could track live together and a top-notch mixing board for producer Tom Dalgety. 

Not only was the space right for Pixies, but so was the band’s mindset. Coming into the sessions, bassist Paz Lenchantin notes that Francis had amassed a much larger tranche of demos than usual in the years since Pixies’ last LP, 2019’s Beneath the Eyrie. And as guitarist Joey Santiago says, “I was always in full music mode on this one. My headspace was a lot better.” 

Elsewhere, the doc is filled with plenty of behind-the-scenes moments and anecdotes. For instance, Dalgety recalls how a freak snowstorm at the start of the sessions allowed for some crucial early rehearsal time, while drummer David Lovering explains why the tambourine is actually the most difficult instrument to play.

Later this week, on June 10, Pixies will also release a special “bonus episode” of their It’s a Pixies Podcast, which they launched around the release of Beneath the Eyrie. The group will not only discuss their new music, but also recount the rather harrowing story of how their tour in Australia was cut short by the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.