By Katy Savage RUTLAND—Back in the mid-1900s, when Dutch Elm Disease wiped out about 77 million elm trees, Vermont towns started replacing the canopy-like trees that lined streets and public parks with something similar—ash trees. Now, towns are contemplating how […]
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News Briefs: Rutland Region, June 1 2016
By Lani Duke New student member elected to school board RUTLAND TOWN—Rutland High sophomore Connor Solimano joins the Rutland City School Board as its junior student representative. The 15-year-old from Rutland Town won his school board seat running against fellow […]
News Briefs from the Rutland Region
Rutland City Two steps forward, one step back Although the city seemingly gains fiscal ground with every audit, two gargantuan obstacles continue to lie in the path of solvency. Both the city pension fund and the downtown parking garage-transit center […]
News Briefs: Rutland Region
By Lani Duke Rutland City Combination Pond makes the ballot City voters will consider a non-binding ballot item on the future of Combination Pond and associated waterways. Alderman Gary Donahue cast the only vote against putting the pond on the […]
News Briefs: Rutland Region
By Lani Duke Pool approved for March ballot Rutland’s Aldermen voted unanimously to place a $2.5 million bond to replace the pool in White Park on the March Town Meeting ballot. Voters for a number of years—and ballots—have repeatedly turned […]
News Briefs: Rutland Region
By Lani Duke Pool approved for March ballot Rutland’s Aldermen voted unanimously to place a $2.5 million bond to replace the pool in White Park on the March Town Meeting ballot. Voters for a number of years—and ballots—have repeatedly turned […]
News Briefs: Lakes Region
By Lani Duke Hundreds hired for the holidays The week after Thanksgiving and the remainder leading up to Christmas are the busiest time of year for the Vermont Country Store in Clarendon. To fill all those holiday orders the store hires […]
News Briefs: Rutland Region
By Lani Duke NECAP test scores tied to poverty levels Rutland High students came in barely above statewide averages on last May’s NECAP tests: 36 percent demonstrated science proficiency. Otter Valley U.H.S. students ranked considerably lower, with only 15 percent […]
News Briefs: Rutland Region
By Lani Duke Downtown economic picture is encouraging Foot traffic is up in downtown Rutland, according to the Rutland Regional Planning Commission, 73 percent higher during a week in November 2014 than it had been two years before — 8,765 […]
News Briefs: Rutland Region
By Lani Duke Infrastructure failure continues to perplex Underground drinking water lines must be replaced this year, says Rutland City public works commissioner Jeff Wennberg. There are more than 100 miles of them, the oldest laid down before Abraham Lincoln […]