Neighborhoods

From Burlington School Commissioners' Corner: 

Board Chair Clare Wool 

For more information visit: www.bsdvt.org

From Preservation Burlington and Bill Mares:

Bill Mares started making his own beer 45 years ago, when homebrewing was illegal and there were no microbreweries in America. Today there are over 7,000 such breweries nationwide, and Vermont has the highest percentage of breweries per capita in the country. Mares has written three editions of “Making Beer,” and fathered Vermont’s brewpub-enabling law in the 1980s.

In this presentation, Mares will offer a short history of beer itself, and discuss the American beer revolution, Vermont’s small but significant contribution, and his co-ownership of a brewery.

The North Star Community served as a gathering place -- and beer hall -- for generations of German-American Old North End residents, and is an ideal location for a talk on the history and culture of Vermont beer making, and consumption.

This program is made possible by a grant from the Vermont Humanities Council's Speakers Bureau. 

Learn more at: www.preservationburlington.org/calendar/from-homebrew-to-the-house-of-fermentology

From Arts So Wonderful:

On April 27th 4pm-8pm Individuals will help cleanup graffiti around Downtown Burlington. This will be our first of 6 cleanup events for Downtown. People will show up at our distribution point at Contois Auditorium to pick up cleaning materials. Bill Ward from Burlington Code Enforcement will demonstrate to everyone how to clean graffiti. Later after the cleanup, we asked people to bring back unused material and receive a bag of Swag from surrounding businesses while enjoying live entertainment and DJ music.

For more information visit: http://www.artssowonderful.com

For more information on the Burlington Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPA) and their current procedures and meeting dates, please visit burlingtonvt.gov/CEDO/Neighborhood-Services/Neighborhood-Planning-Assemblies.