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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…

By Lani Duke Rutland City voters returned Christopher Louras to the mayor’s office for a fifth term. He received 1,863 votes to David Allaire’s 1,341 votes. The third candidate, Kam Johnston, received 99 votes. Louras campaigned that he had put the city in a position to make major improvements and that changing leadership would stop…

By Lani Duke A survey of 993 respondents showed strong report for a municipal pool, even among people who have not used White’s Pool. The closing of the disintegrating pool leaves summer recreation with a gaping hole—a hole that 90 percent of the respondents want a pool to fill, Parks and Rec superintendent Cindi Wight…

 STOCKBRIDGE—On March 3 at about 11 a.m., Barbara Kessel, age 66 of Shelburne, Vt., hit a patch of ice on Route 107 in Stockbridge, losing control of her vehicle and crossing into the oncoming lane. Donna Thompson, age 58 of Pittsfield, Vt., driving in the oncoming lane, was unable to avoid hitting her and the…

Tuesday, March 17 at 6:30 p.m. — RUTLAND — Working with the Creative Economy, the Rutland Recreation & Parks Department is hosting a meeting about a possible dog park in Rutland. The meeting will take place at the Rutland Recreation offices at 16 North Street Extension on Tuesday, March 17 at 6:30 p.m. The Rec Department is looking…

By Lani Duke Here is a roundup of changes by town: BENSON—Benson’s public floor meeting presented the best possible illustration of the value of the Vermont election process. Speakers explored the issue of public versus individual responsibility as they debated whether the town should give $1,500 to the Benson Youth League or leave funding to…

Provided by Rutland Regional Medical Center Pictured (l-r) Kathleen M. Craig, Director, Rutland Women’s Healthcare, Andrea Borchlewicz, RN (center) and Valerie Pajak, cousin of Andrea Borchlewicz. RUTLAND–Rutland Regional Medical Center’s Andrea Borchlewicz, a registered nurse (RN) with Rutland Women’s Healthcare, was honored for excellent care by the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, a peer-elected awards…

Apply by March 20 The Journalism Education Foundation of New England, a division of the New England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA), will award up to ten $1,000 scholarships this spring to high school seniors and college students residing in the six New England states who aspire to a career in journalism. This program encourages…