RUTLAND — Rutland Area VNA & Hospice (RAVNAH) will offer a free eight-week hospice volunteer training course for individuals who wish to become hospice and palliative care volunteers in the Rutland County, Dorset and Rupert areas. There will be eight three-hour sessions beginning in late March that will meet two times a week on Thursday afternoons…

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Dear Members, Thank you to those that came out and voted on Town Meeting Day. I would like to congratulate Chris Bianchi on his re-election and thank voters for passing the budget. Your votes helped ensure that we have a Selectboard and a plan that supports that mission of the KPAA and the best interests…

Wednesday, March 25 at 6 p.m. — CAVENDISH — The Cavendish Community and Conservation Association will hold another lecture in their Walk and Talk Series of nature and conservation presentations on Wednesday, March 25 at 6 p.m. with Kelly Stettner of the Black River Action Team and Kenneth Cox, a fisheries biologist with the Vermont Department of…

Tuesday, March 24 at 11:30 a.m. — POULTNEY — Green Mountain College holds its 2015 Annual Spring Career Fair on Tuesday, March 24 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. in Withey Hall Lobby. Take advantage of this opportunity to connect with passionate, dedicated students and alumni. As always, the fair will have a strong emphasis on outdoor…

RUTLAND — The 52nd annual Loyalty Day Parade will kick off an early summer on Sunday, May 3, 2015 in Rutland. The parade is sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #648. Chairman George Bates and his committee are well underway to bring Rutland a great parade. Individuals or groups interested in being a part…

Wednesday, March 25 at 11 a.m.  —LUDLOW — Black River Good Neighbor Services, Inc. and Berkshire Bank have partnered to offer a free interactive learning session on managing personal finances. The class will be held on Wednesday, March 25 at 11 a.m. at the Fletcher Memorial Library in Ludlow. The course will cover a variety of…

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By Kim Peters The 2014-2015 Rutland Raiders wrestling team has paved the way to a bright future. The team, though small, wrestled tough and were very close to taking the state championship. Senior Shane Warner, who battled two serious injuries earlier in the season, finished runner-up in the state in a close finals match with…

Victory caps off 23-0 season for the boys basketball team Staff report The undefeated Woodstock Wasps boy’s basketball team finished a perfect season winning the Division II championship, Saturday, March 7 over the Enosburg Hornets. It was the Woodstock team’s first championship since 1999 and their fifth in school history. With their perfect season, the…

WEST HAVEN–Stock car racing’s youth movement has a new home in Rutland County, as Devil’s Bowl Speedway has announced the formation of the new Young Guns division. The new class will observe the same rules used in the track’s Mini Stock division and will offer supervised safety and driving instructions and real on-track racing experience…

By Justin Lemanski, sports reporter The Fighting Saints men’s and women’s basketball teams headed to Uniontown, Penn., this week to play in the USCAA Division II national tournament. The men were able to get to the final four of the tournament, but lost to Berkeley-NYC in triple overtime. The women got to the final game…

Submitted SAM GNOZA The Stratton Mountain School freeski team finished up its regular season at Okemo and Nashoba Valley, Feb. 21 and 22, with Mendon’s Gnoza brothers coming out ahead in freeski events. At Okemo in the Slope Style competition, sophomore Sam Gnoza of Mendon was first in the Open Class division. Sophomore Henry Robbins,…

PITTSFORD—UPS driver Wayne Winston of Pittsford was recently inducted into UPS’s prestigious Circle of Honor for achieving 25 years of accident-free driving. Winston, along with seven other elite drivers from Vermont, is among 1,445 new inductees. Vermont boasts 29 active Circle of Honor drivers in total with a combined 792 years of accident-free driving. Joseph…

By Lani Duke Lacking contested races, West Rutland voters had relatively few contentious issues facing them on March 3. They passed their $1,208,082 town budget and their $5,713,687 school budget, and funding for the $50,000 school resource officer position for the upcoming school year passed by a margin of four votes. In Wallingford, there were…