The Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) has announced an ambitious and wide-ranging 2025–2026 season that blends audience favorites with adventurous new programming, highlighting the orchestra’s ongoing commitment to artistic excellence, community engagement, and musical innovation. Marking its 91st year, the VSO will offer a season packed with musical treasures—from holiday traditions to contemporary premieres. Season highlights…

KILLINGTON—A section of town road between 2155 and 1974 East Mountain Road is planned to be closed to all traffic (both lanes) for one to two days between Tuesday, May 13 and Friday, May 16 to allow for placement of a waterline pipe. Hours of the closure will be from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.,…

Killington Resort planned on keeping its lifts running during the week until May 11 (then weekends only), but rain and warm temps over the last several days have taken a serious toll on its snowpack. Therefore, Killington Resort will be closed Thursday, May 8, and Friday, May 9, to preserve what they have left and…

By Brian Cina Editor’s note: Brian Cina is a VermontState Representative for Chittenden-15. Cina is a clinical social worker with a full-time therapy practice and is a part-time crisis clinician. State-sanctioned punishment and violence perpetuate harm under the guise of accountability, justice, and public safety. Since 2017, Governor Phil Scott has pushed for new prisons…

Dear Editor, I have been thinking since Earth Day about modern technology and our environment and how much they are out of touch with each other.  Last summer, my wife and I traveled to Fairbanks, Alaska, for a wedding. While there, we went to the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. It…

Dear Editor, On April 10, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, H.R.22, passed the US House and is on its way to the Senate. The League of Women Voters of Vermont (LWVVT) opposes the SAVE Act because it requires American citizens registering to vote or updating registration information to present in-person proof of citizenship.…

By Leslie Burg Editor’s note: Leslie Burg, Manchester, is a community member of the Rutland Head Start Policy Council and an emerita professor of literacy and disabilities at Northeastern University. Show the state and the country that Rutland will not stand by while its most vulnerable residents are abandoned. Rutland is a city that represents…

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), alongside Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), introduced the Medicare for All Act last Tuesday, April 29. Hundreds of nurses, health care providers and workers from around the nation joined the lawmakers for a press conference in…

Snow, summer, and snowshed: 1960 saw fast progress How Killington became The Beast: Part 9 By Karen D. Lorentz Editor’s Note: This is the ninth segment of an 11-part series on the factors that enabled Killington to become The Beast of the East. Quotations are from author interviews in the 1980s for the book “Killington,…

Three Woodstock Union High School students were honored on April 30 for their visionary ideas about shaping Vermont’s future as the first recipients of the Laurance and Mary Rockefeller Legacy Scholarship, a new annual essay competition created to honor the Rockefellers’ lasting impact on the community. The scholarship program was launched in 2025 by The…

The first-ever Jimmy LeSage Memorial Scholarship, a $2,500 award created to honor the life and legacy of wellness pioneer Jimmy LeSage, has been awarded to Brycen Gandin, a graduating senior at Rutland Senior High School. Brycen, a resident of Mendon, can use the scholarship toward the college of his choice this coming academic year. Brycen was…

David MacIver Loman — known to many as “Dave,” “Dave the Rave,” “Davey Baby,” “Davey Jones,” or “Dirty Dave” — passed away on Tuesday, April 15, at age 37. Born in Randolph on April 11, 1988, and raised in Killington, David brought warmth, laughter, and depth to every place and person he touched, from the…

The American Red Cross is urging Vermonters to roll up their sleeves this month and help ensure hospitals have the blood and platelets they need when emergencies strike. With spring events and summer travel just around the corner, May is a critical time to donate. Throughout Trauma Awareness Month, the Red Cross is highlighting the…

By Theresa Golub Editor’s note: This story is via Community News Service in partnership with Vermont State University Castleton. Across Vermont, the songs of spring peepers marking the change in seasons. Temperatures rise, snow melts and water runs into the dips and divots of the land to form vernal pools.  Biologists call those springtime basins the…

Staff report Last week, 80 representatives from nine New England communities traveled to Tucson, Arizona, to visit and learn from Desert View High School and the Sunnyside Unified School District.  Nine of those attendees were from Woodstock High School. They included two students: Owen Whalen (11th grade) and Anna Young (10th grade); two educators: Vanessa…