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Cindy Dailey hasn’t been getting much sleep lately. Her mare, named Darros Skippers Itzy Bitzy Nuffin, is 342 days pregnant. When Itzy’s foal is born, it will stand roughly 17 inches at the withers — the last few hairs of its mane. That’s half the size of its mom.

Dailey is a miniature-horse owner and breeder in East Hardwick. And Itzy is not her only charge. Dailey has kept her farmyard full of tiny equines since 2001, with help from fellow owner/breeder Tammie Wetherell.... Read more

Buttons cost $10 for students and adults through December 30, $15 for adults on December 31, and are free for kids 5 and younger. Buttons and programs available at various locations. Info, www.firstnightstj.com or call 748-2600.

3 p.m.
PROFESSOR MARVEL’S MAGIC SHOW: Morse Center Theater, until 3:45 p.m.

4 p.m.
NO STRINGS MARIONETTE COMPANY: St. Johnsbury School, until 4:45 p.m.
FAMILY FUN FARE: Academy Fieldhouse, until 8:30 p.m.... Read more

Any given morning in Irasburg, Doug and Richard Nelson can be found tending to their animals. Like most Orleans County dairymen, they’re up at the crack of dawn, puttering around the family barn. But at about 8 a.m., father and son climb into twin pickup trucks and head down a dirt road toward “Big Rack Ridge,” which is bordered by an 8-foot-tall, 6-mile-long fence.... Read more

There’s nothing particularly lyrical about what’s currently going on in Iraq. But in poet Brian Turner’s work, fleeting beauty emerges from devastation. The “embedded poet” has been lauded by The New York Times, The New Yorker and Salon.com for his collection Here, Bullet, in which he writes about his experiences as an infantry team leader in Iraq in 2003. This Thursday, the seven-year Army vet with an MFA will read his visceral verse at the St. Johnsbury Athenaum.... Read more

St. Johnsbury’s Rod Lauman lives in a three-story, yellow 1883 house that’s furnished and decorated in a brooding Victorian style. One of his three cats, a white female, is named Victoria.

Within these walls Lauman operates Victrola Repair Service, where he services and sells Victrolas. Yup, those wind-up phonographs with the big horns that make a vocalist sound as though he’s holding his nose while he sings something that invariably comes out “voh-doh-doh-dee-oh-doh” at 78 rpm.... Read more

In the age of the Internet, what does it mean for a publication to be “local”? Sometimes it’s hard to say. On May 25, Garrett Heaney sent a message to his email list announcing a new online journal called Wishtank: “I have been working on a project with my tribe from the Northeast Kingdom for some time,” he wrote.... Read more

In Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film The Trouble With Harry, residents of a small Vermont town discover a dead body in a local park. The black comedy was shot in part in the Northeast Kingdom town of Craftsbury; film buffs may recognize Craftsbury Common's signature town green.... Read more

Derby--Get ready for yet another battle in Vermont's ongoing Wal-Mart war. Developer Jeff Davis, of Burlington-based J.L. Davis Realty, has announced plans to build a Wal-Mart in Derby, and the state's anti-sprawl groups are gearing up to oppose him.

Davis developed the Wal-Mart at Taft Corners in Williston, and is seeking permits to build one in St. Albans. He's partnering with Greg Fleming of Fleming Management Group in Derby to bring the big-box retailer to the Northeast Kingdom. At 150,000 square feet, the proposed store would be the discount chain's largest in the state.... Read more

Apart from the area's natural beauty and the outdoor activities it invites, there isn't much to see or do in Craftsbury Common. And there'd be even less if it weren't for librarian extraordinaire Linda Wells.

She has turned the local library into a vibrant center of education, cultural activity and community involvement in a Northeast Kingdom town that lacks even a general store. For 20 years, Wells has worked to make the Craftsbury Public Library ever more accessible -- to the point where it now serves 1800 patrons, even though the town itself has only 1100 residents.... Read more

Last month's farewell Phish shows in Coventry were plagued by torrential rains, treacherous mud bogs and a 25-mile traffic jam that turned Interstate 91 into a parking lot. As if the swan song for the Vermont-based jam band wasn't already enough of a mess -- for organizers and fans alike -- it now appears that some concertgoers may have also been exposed to sewage sludge that was spread on the site just 10 months earlier.... Read more