Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7-8—RUTLAND—The Chaffee Art Center is set to host its 62nd annual Art in the Park fall foliage festival on Oct. 7 and 8 at Rutland’s Main Street Park, located at the southwest corner of the intersection of routes 4 and 7. This highly anticipated event brings together juried fine artists, craftspeople,…

Courtesy Killington Ski Resort Killington will celebrate the change of season with their harvest fair at Snowshed Base Lodge this Saturday. Throughout the day, there will be fun-filled activities for the entire family including pumpkin painting, horse-drawn hayrides, apple launching, face painting, & a bouncy house, ax throwing, food, live music and more.    Saturday, Oct.…

  Dear Editor, Oct. 2 was World Day for Farmed Animals when activists around the world draw attention to the devastating impacts of animal agriculture on animals, our health, and our environment.   The campaign was launched in 1983 by Alex Hershaft, a Holocaust survivor and founder of Farm Animal Reform Movement, to memorialize and…

   By David Sharpe Editor’s note: David Sharpe of Bristol is a former long-time member of the Vermont House of Representatives, where he chaired the Education Committee.  It’s no surprise that the latest educational report of the widening gap in student performance in Vermont’s public schools is between students of means and those who live…

BIPOC folks put in tough spots Dear Editor, “It’s dirty work but someone has to do it.” I can’t help remarking on the many movies and TV series, for instance, that depict Black people in the so-called “helping professions” — hospital staff, law enforcement, private service, hospitality — or other roles that call for sympathy…

  Dear Editor, Last month I had the honor of representing Vermont on Capitol Hill.  Along with roughly 600 of my fellow American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network volunteers from across the county, I traveled to Washington, D.C. to urge lawmakers to make cancer a national priority.  As someone who has lost family members and…

By Haviland Smith Editor’s note: Haviland Smith is a retired CIA operations officer who focused during his Cold War career in Eastern and Western Europe on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The Oxford dictionary defines democracy as “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically…

By Curt Peterson The first important thing to know is that a mortgage is a lien, not a loan. A mortgage loan involves the borrower giving a mortgage on a property to a lender in exchange for funds, usually used to purchase the property. The property can’t be sold without paying off any part of…

  Real estate market remains competitive in Killington through fall  By Curt Peterson  The real estate market is full of vagaries — prices, climbing mortgage loan rates, bidding wars, and the effects of climate change, to name a few. Each town has its own characteristics. The area served by the Mountain Times and where our…

The Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) Board of Commissioners recently awarded Vermont State Affordable Housing Tax Credits for homeownership development projects across the state. Once sold to investors, the credits will yield nearly $3 million in equity for downpayment assistance for newly constructed or substantially rehabilitated single-family homes as well as energy-efficient manufactured homes.  Additionally,…

Assisted pedal power: E-bikes reduce the effort, increase the opportunities By Polly Mikula Killington Resort’s claim was hard to believe. “Enjoy a two-hour tour led by a knowledgeable and friendly guide up and around the mountain on a Trek Rail 5 E pedal assist bike — while barely breaking a sweat,” the website read.  Really?…

By Fred Thys/VTDigger Hunting camps in remote areas, off-the-grid houses, summer camps out in the woods — locations like these would have to get broadband service if Vermont taps a huge source of federal funding. The Vermont Community Broadband Board recently released a draft proposal that would determine how the state would spend $229 million in new federal funding…

  A new report from the non-profit Energy Action Network (EAN) finds that Vermont has made the least progress of any state in the Northeast toward the Paris Climate Accord emissions reduction commitment made by the U.S. and is not on track to meet its own state legal obligations by 2025 and 2030 under the Global Warming…

  By Karen D. Lorentz Editor’s note: This is part two of information and tips shared at the AARP Scam Jam held recently in Rutland. Scams are perpetrated by smart and organized con artists who make it “their business to get your money. They only have to be successful once,” Philip Latvis, the executive director…

By Katy Savage Consultants are gathering community feedback for the new Velomont Trail throughout the state with the help of a $140,000 Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative (VOREC) grant. The consultants from SE Group in Burlington are holding eight open houses to understand concerns pertaining to trail use, conservation and trail design.  “I think the…