Mary Williams Engisch
Host/Senior ProducerMary Williams Engisch is a local host on All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday and Weekend Edition Sunday.
Mary joined Vermont Public in 2011 as a board operator and announcer. From 2014 to 2018, they also hosted a weekly arts calendar segment called, "Art Hounds" and a feature with local artists.
During the week, Mary produces and hosts on-air programs like "All Things Gardening with Charlie Nardozzi" and "Safe & Sound: A Celebration of Vermont Music."
She has earned a B.A. in Journalism from St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, and has worked at a small weekly newspaper, as a voice-over artist, a vegan cupcake entrepreneur and a rock deejay at several local stations in Vermont.
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Since 1975, staff at Polly’s Pancake Parlor in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, has been tracking when the leaves peak, when they fade and when the season’s first snowfall arrives. It’s a tradition that customers have come to rely on when planning their fall foliage watching. -
Seder is a Jewish ceremonial dinner that begins the springtime festival of Passover. A prominent Passover theme — liberation — sparked a different kind of Seder in the mid-90s: a Pride Seder. The event marks key milestones in the struggle for LGBTQ rights. And this marks the first year that a Pride Seder is being held in Vermont.
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Not ready to let go of growing fresh salad greens even though the summer season is waning? Fret not and grab the nearest garden container or cozy up to a cold frame.
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Catamount Run will bring roughly 500 more beds to South Burlington City Center, within a mile-and-a-half radius of UVM’s Burlington campus. The development will come online in phases, with plans to have 170 beds ready by summer 2024, and the rest finished within the following two years.
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With some mulching this fall and pinching next spring, your hardy mums will provide perennial color.Technically, those hardy mums you use as fall decorations are perennials. They can be a bit finicky, but find the right place to plant it in your lawn or garden and be treated to fall color every year.
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Newfane resident Chase Stanley, who served in the Army and was a Brattleboro police officer, will walk 22 miles on Sunday to raise awareness around the high rate of veterans dying by suicide.
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The Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc is held the last week of August each year in Chamonix, France. The 106-mile race includes a circumnavigation of western Europe’s highest mountain. It's like the Tour de France, but for ultra trail runners.
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Traditional lawns are greenswards - places to play and gather. And they help avoid erosion. If you plan to keep your green grass lawn, now is the time to repair it or consider some other green lawn covers.
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The Vermont Agency of Education now says that schools may need to institute mask mandates in order protect students who are at high risk of getting seriously sick from COVID-19.
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Vermont municipalities are getting $200 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congress passed last year to help the country recover from the pandemic. Though the money comes with certain strings, local elected officials and voters have broad power to decide how to spend it.
