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Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Joe's Pond Ice Out concludes with record ticket sales
This famous, Green Mountain tradition that has taken place in the Northeast Kingdom since the 1980s just had it's most successful year yet. The Joe's Pond 2025 Ice Out in Cabot and West Danville, Vermont has finally concluded for the season, but with record-breaking ticket sales. When Joe's Pond freezes over during the winter, folks in the area break out the block and clock. The block sits on a pallet so when the ice gives way, the block and pallet sink. The clock also stops ticking. This year, the clock stopped on April 17th at 8:41 PM. The next step is to find out who the winner was after a record-breaking year of ticket sales. Each guess costs you one dollar and apparently, there were 16,749 guesses this year. That means the Joe's Pond Association (JPA) raised 16,749 dollars this year which bested 2024 when they raked in 15,000 dollars in guesses. That money will be divided in half and given to the person who had a guess closest to the time the block fell through the ice. The winner will receive a check for 7,835 dollars. If multiple people had the same winning guess, it will be divided further. All the proceeds taken in by JPA will go to help support water quality efforts and the July 4th fireworks. Check those tickets now, and see if you were the big winner this year! Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Time to enter your guess in Joe's Pond Ice Out
It's time to make your best guess for when the ice will be gone from Joe's Pond. The Joe's Pond Association has announced that tickets are now available for the 2025 Ice Out Contest, which began 37 years ago in 1988. That first contest sold fewer than 1000 tickets were sold. Last year, more than 12,000 tickets were sold. The winner in 2024 was a Danville man who guessed April 14 at 4:09 a.m., the closest to the official Ice Out time of 4:02 a.m. The man received a check for $6,600. Another check went to the Joe's Pond Association, which uses their half of the money raised by ticket sales to keep the pond clean and the July 4th fireworks. Tickets are $1 per guess and can be purchased online at the Joe's Pond Association website, Hasting's Store in West Danville Marty's First Stop in Danville, and at local vendors in Cabot, St. Johnsbury, Danville, Marshfield, Barre, and Montpelier. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
