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The Vermont Alliance of Independent Country Stores is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and enhance country stores, while preserving their unique heritage and contributions to their communities.
This site can help you plan your trip through Vermont, as you stop at our Independent Country Stores for food and fuel and souvenirs and conversation and new friendships. Our individual store pages tell you what products and services you can find, offer pictures of the stores along with local history background, and give links to local sites and other information.
Winter updates are underway on the Alliance website. Look for new stores, maps, and photos in the next day or two. We welcome our new members from Powers Market in North Bennington, and we have new photos and news items for Dente's in Barre, Jericho Center Country Store and Newbury Store, a great old photo of Saxton's River, and a new map of the attractions around Floyd's in Randolph Center. Our associate member Dowling's Wholesale has put up their brochure for you to grab and print.
Planning your Vermont trek? Stop for directions, lunch, souvenirs, and the best of Vermont hospitality along the way! Use the Tour Map of Country Stores to help make the most of your visit to the Green Mountains! Our maps are not yet updated for winter -- so keep in mind Powers Market in North Bennington until we get the maps redrawn!
Look for the banner or the Alliance decal and know that you're in one of Vermont's genuine independent country stores! Alliance members also now sport the Vermont Seal of Quality!
Discover more about Vermont's independent country stores with our links to articles and television shows. Watch the CNN and NBC News stories, read about us in the Boston Globe and New York Times. There are other videos and news articles in the Newsroom or you can watch our own homemade video of available in streaming Real Media or Windows Media formats. Watch "Vermont's Independent Country Stores"
The Alliance is introduce its new line of products made especially for us -- Vermont Village Foods. Look for the store-brown label with the store-sun-mountains logo! Only members of the Vermont Alliance of Independent Country Stores carry Vermont Village Foods!
You can become a member of the Vermont Alliance of Independent Country Stores. Qualifying stores must meet historical and service criteria, but Associate Members and Friends are always welcome!
Annual Membership Meeting 2008!Thursday, May 8, 2008
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Along with our stores members and wonderful Associate Members and Friends, we are proud to present our major corporate sponsors for 2005-6: Long Trail Brewing Company and Cabot Creamery Cooperative.
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Alliance Offices Vermont Grocers Assn. 135 North Main Street, Suite 5 Rutland, VT 05701 Tel: 802-775-5460 Fax: 802-773-2242 countrystores@vaics.org |
Co-Chair Jayne Nold-Laurendeau PO Box 60 Northfield Falls, VT 05664 Tel: 802-485-8954 jayne@vaics.org |
Co-Chair Charlie Wilson PO Box 2 Taftsville VT 05073 Tel: 802-457-1135 taftsville@vaics.org |
Executive Director Dennis Bathory-Kitsz 176 Cox Brook Road Northfield VT 05663 Tel: 802-485-3972 bathory@vaics.org |
