Resort signs 2-year contract to host the women’s ski world cup Thanksgiving weekend By Paul Holmes Mikaela Shiffrin takes a tight, aggressive line down Superstar to win the race. By Angelo Lynn The World Cup event at Killington Resort draws […]
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Featured, State News
Heat breaks records
By Emma Cotton/VTDigger On the heels of abnormally dry conditions, softened but not eliminated by last week’s rain, early June has brought several days of increasingly common record-breaking heat to Vermont. Swimmers flocked to lakefronts and rivers over the weekend and […]
Featured, Local News
RRMC welcomes all
Staff report At 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 2, a crew from Awesome Graphics hung a gigantic “All Are Welcome Here” banner on the front of Rutland Regional Medical Center, just under the hospital’s logo. “This is about championing messages that […]
Featured, State News
State inches closer to 80% vax goal
At 79.4%, officials are hopeful that threshold could be reached this week By Polly Mikula As of Tuesday, June 8, 79.4% of the eligible population in Vermont has received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, leaving just 3,139 […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment, Events & Activities, Featured, Food matters
Purple Donut Days are back supporting Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum
Saturday and Sunday, June 12-13, 8-11 a.m. — RUTLAND— Jones Donuts and Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum will be “cooking up” something special for the weekend of June 12-13. For the second year, Jones Donuts will be putting a unique spin on […]
Column, Featured, Pets
Featured Pets for June 9 – June 15, 2021
3-years-old. Spayed female. Feist mix. Tan and white. I am an active sweet girl and hope that you will fall in love with me and take me home. Rutland County Humane Society, 765 Stevens Road, Pittsford, VT • (802) 483-6700 […]
Covid-19 updates, Featured
Walk-in vaccination clinics abound this weekend
On Friday, June 4, Governor Phil Scott announced dozens of new walk-in clinics as the state works to make the Covid-19 vaccine easily accessible throughout Vermont. Scott previously announced that when 80% of Vermont’s eligible population (those age 12 and […]
Covid-19 updates, Featured, State News
‘It’s a matter of days’ before all mandates are lifted, gov says
By Polly Mikula Vermont is just days away from hitting its threshold to remove all Covid-related health restrictions, state officials said Tuesday, June 1. When 80% of the state’s eligible population is vaccinated (one dose administered to residents 12 years […]
Featured, Local News
40 people forced to relocate after mayor orders Quality Inn to close immediately
By Emma Cotton/VTDigger Rutland Mayor Dave Allaire ordered the Quality Inn to shut down after city and state inspectors found numerous health and safety violations at the motel. Around 40 people experiencing homelessness, currently housed there, will need to relocate immediately. […]
Featured, Local News
School board panel to review Rutland Raiders mascot change
By Emma Cotton/VTDigger The Rutland Raider mascot is still up for debate. In the next several weeks, a new committee will decide whether the Rutland School Board adhered to its own rules when it voted last October to abandon the high […]