The resort outlines advanced parking reservation system used to limit crowds this season Staff report The ski season is right around the corner, with Killington Resort aiming to open next Saturday, Nov. 14 along with Mount Snow, the first  two resorts to open in Vermont. “While there is always a competition to open first, we…

Warren Miller’s 71st feature film will stream Nov. 7 By Brooke Geery For the past 71 years, the start of the season has been marked by a new Warren Miller movie, and although Covid-19 has changed the premiere format, skiers will still delight in a new film which takes them around the globe from top…

By Melinda Myers As the seasons change, we adjust our gardening tasks and plantings to match. Animals also make changes this time of year, often changing their eating habits and dining locations. These adjustments can impact your gardens. Reduce the risk of damage by starting in fall to protect your landscape from hungry animals this…

By Gary Salmon Maps are windows to our world. The more colorful the more interesting. They tell us where we have been and can even direct us to future actions. Two come to mind that have been useful this year. The weekly Tuesday Covid-19 maps of Vermont continued to stay the same color while a…

By Merisa Sherman It has snowed before and it will snow again. As the world swirls around us like snowflakes in a mid-winter storm, I find comfort in these words. I find that I repeat them to myself, like a comforting mantra, while I focus on my breathing. I let the words wrap around me…

By Dom Cioffi It’s Monday night as I’m writing this – the eve before one of the most contentious presidential elections in recent history. I voted two weeks ago by mail-in ballot and have spent most of the past 14 days avoiding media. I haven’t watched or read the news and I certainly haven’t engaged…

By Mary Ellen Shaw They say that with age comes wisdom. While talking with a friend recently we discussed how a lot of things we thought were “cool” back in the day were actually bad ideas! Many of us baby boomers grew up in houses where parents smoked. Back in the 50s when we were…

By Sandra Dee Owens For years I told myself (and anyone listening), that I was going to begin a personal challenge of skiing the length of Vermont on the Catamount Trail—but I never did. Years before, while backcountry skiing with a group of girlfriends, one gal recounted skiing the entire length of this Nordic ski…

By Laurie D Morrisey Pine barrens are certainly piney – but they’re not the least bit barren. They were so named not because they lack life, but because colonists found them unsuitable for raising cattle or growing vegetable and grain crops. Left behind by the glaciers more than 10,000 years ago, pine barrens are characterized…

By Cassandra Tyndall A new month brings a new batch of astrological possibilities. That being said, it doesn’t mean things will magically progress immediately. When it comes to topics involving communication, logistics, paperwork and money, the devil will be in the details. Move too fast and you might have to re-do something. Yes, that’s frustrating.…

Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 5 p.m.—RUTLAND—Mount St. Joseph Academy will hold an open house and welcomes prospective students and families from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday,  Nov. 4. The open house will include student-led tours and teacher-student presentations. Faculty and staff will be on hand to answer questions and share insights into joining the MSJ family.…

The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept. said hunters harvested 40 moose in this year’s regulated moose hunting seasons that were limited to Vermont’s Wildlife Management Unit E in the northeastern corner of the state to reduce the impact of winter ticks on the moose population. All six of the moose harvested in the Oct. 1-7…

Daylight saving time comes to an end each fall, at a time when the hours of available sunlight already are beginning to decline. Some people are more accustomed to darkness than others. Norwegians, Swedes and people living in Alaska and the upper reaches of Canada near or above the Arctic Circle go through a period…

Tuesdays from 5:50-6:30 p.m.—RUTLAND—Vermont Achievement Center is offering an aqua-cise class for men, by a man, allowing men of all ages to experience the benefits of exercising in therapeutically warm water. Also, with the stress on the muscles and joints being aided—lessened—by the buoyancy of the water, the results are significant and much less painful…

The Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) is advancing the final plans for the Quechee Gorge Bridge Project. It is scheduled to go to bid for contractors in the coming weeks. After much discussion, the AOT has decided that the project requires a continuous single lane of traffic for the duration of the construction season. This…