Dear Editor, Try to imagine Rutland City without its New England steeples and Grace Church’s organ parts strewn all over Court and West Streets. Imagine a flattened parking garage down the street and Walmart a charred pile of plastic poisoning […]
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Leave turkeys off the table
Dear Editor, In the U.S. alone, 46,000,000 turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving. These innocent animal lives were taken for no reason. Of the 245,000,000 turkeys killed in the U.S. in 2022, nearly all were raised in crowded toxic fume-filled […]
Rutland hosts curling clinic
Rutland Rocks Curling Club will hold its Winter Learn to curl sessions on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 8 at 4:30 p.m. at Giorgetti Arena in Rutland. Cost is $20 per person. Registration is available at […]
RNESU OKs 3-year driver/staff contract
By Angelo Lynn, Addison Independent The boards of Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union and Otter Valley Unified Union District ratified a three-year contract with the educational support staff and bus drivers, according to RNESU Superintendent Kristin Hubert, at a meeting on […]
Candlelight vigil held for homeless in Rutland
The Homeless Prevention Center held its 23rd annual candlelight vigil on Dec. 21 in Rutland. The vigil is held each year on the winter solstice, along with hundreds of other communities across the country. HPC’s vision is to eliminate hopelessness […]
RCHS and RADART help to supply food for area food shelves
RUTLAND — The Rutland County Humane Society (RCHS) is partnering with Ocean State Job Lot in Rutland and the Rutland Area Disaster Animal Response Team (RADART) by distributing gift cards to Rutland County food shelves. As part of the RCHS […]
Paramount Theater to host two free post-Christmas movies, Dec. 28-29
Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 28 -29 at 7 p.m.— RUTLAND — Join Paramount Theater for two free after-Christmas movies – “Happy Feet”and “The Croods” on the big screen. No tickets required. This is a family friendly event. “Happy Feet” (Dec. […]
Participate in this year’s annual Christmas Bird Count, Jan. 1
Rutland County Audubon’s annual Christmas Bird Count will take place this year on Jan. 1. Birds spotted within a 7 1/2 mile radius of Mead’s Falls in Center Rutland will be counted by teams of field birders and feeder-watchers in […]
It doesn’t take a meteorologist
Dear Editor, National weather services have been calling the latest storm to strike the Northeast a “Nor’easter.” But it wasn’t. The term Nor’easter has been used by generations along the coast of the far northeastern U.S. to describe a coastal […]
Chittenden Reservoir Walleye fishing restrictions revised starting Jan. 1
Sunday, Jan. 1 — RUTLAND — Walleye fishing restrictions on Chittenden Reservoir have been modified to help improve fishing opportunities and natural reproduction of the walleye population, according to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. Starting Jan. 1, walleye fishing […]