WOODSTOCK — On Monday, Oct. 13, Governor Peter Shumlin announced that he will appoint Judge Harold “Duke” Eaton, Jr., to serve on the Vermont Supreme Court. Judge Eaton fills the seat left open by Justice Geoffrey Crawford’s appointment to the Federal District Court. Judge Eaton has served as a trial court judge since 2004, when he was…

HARDWICK—A Hardwick mother and her boyfriend are in custody, facing charges of second- degree murder after state police said the two put alcohol in the I.V. bag of the woman’s disabled son. Walter Richters and Melissa Robitille, both 38, were charged in the Aug. 22 death of Isaac Robitille. They pleaded innocent Wednesday afternoon in…

Gov. Peter Shumlin appointed Jessica Holmes, a Middlebury College professor of economics, to serve on the five-member Green Mountain Care board. She will serve a six-year term, replacing outgoing member Karen Hein of Jacksonville, Vt., whose term expired. “Jessica has extensive academic and professional experience in health care economics,” said Gov. Shumlin. “She comes to…

By Stephen Seitz KILLINGTON – Good news for local foodies: Maya Papaya CSA and Chef Brad Pirkey will be opening a store for the coming ski season. The Maya Papaya Store and Chef Brad’s kitchen will open up in the Mountain Green sometime after Thanksgiving, according to proprietor E.J. Cully. “It will be a fish…

GOSHEN—On Wednesday, Oct. 8, State Police at the New Haven Barracks responded to a report of a home burglary in the town of Goshen. Reported missing are two firearms, a Ruger Vaquero and a Springfield Arms AR-15. Due to the active investigation the victim’s information is not being released at this time. Anyone with information…

The Vermont State Police (VSP) began receiving complaints at the beginning of October from businesses statewide that received counterfeit $50 and $100 bills. Upon investigation, detectives learned that the passing of these counterfeit bills has been ongoing for several weeks, and detectives are now actively investigating numerous incidents in Vermont. Most of the instances have…

By Laura Krantz, VTDigger.org Attorney General Bill Sorrell’s office has filed a petition in court to remove the board of directors of an Upper Valley nonprofit, claiming it allowed the organization’s director to inflate her own salary, pad her expense reimbursements and mismanage money for years. The AG’s office responded to a complaint from within…

By Hilary Niles, VTDigger.org Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and his Republican challenger, Scott Milne, sounded familiar chords Wednesday evening, Oct. 9, in their first one-on-one live debate. None of the other five gubernatorial candidates, including Libertarian Dan Feliciano or Liberty Union Party nominee Peter Diamondstone, was included in the hour-long event televised live by WCAX.…

By Hilary Niles, VTDigger.org About 45,000 Vermonters stand to collect roughly $1 million from a national settlement with AT&T Mobility. The $105-million deal settles allegations that the company improperly charged customers for services they had not authorized. Known as “cramming,” the practice entails third-party companies signing up accounts for text-message services ranging from celebrity gossip…

Editor’s note: The Mountain Times receives many questions from readers every week about Killington Resort and Pico Mountain operations. In order to best answer some of the most common questions we have posed them directly to Mike Solimano, president and general manager for Killington Resort and Pico Mountain, who has responded here. Three questions many…

By Paul Cillo A month after announcing a two percent cut to the current year’s budget, the Shumlin administration is signaling its intention to make additional cuts of as much as five percent and possibly more next year (fiscal 2016). For an already anemic state government that is suffering from staffing shortages and struggling to…

Dear Editor: My wife, Monica, and I are parents to three beautiful young sons and we both agreed there would be no better place to raise them than in Vermont. So in 2011 we bought our first home in Killington. At the time we knew managing a mortgage along with high property taxes and energy…

By Dom Cioffi Last week I went to see the number one movie in the country, “Gone Girl,” starring Ben Affleck. I, along with most other folks, was riveted by the intriguing storyline about a suburban couple facing a physically and psychologically damaging situation. Affleck did a fine job portraying the bewildered husband (mostly because…

By Maxx Steinmetz This past week the Rutland Roosters Rugby Football Club (RFC) began the second half of the season by traveling to Ludlow to face Black River RFC for the second time. The day was sunny and the Rutland Roosters arrived with a player to spare, but hadn’t gotten to the pitch in time for sufficient…

KILLINGTON — Killington Mountain School Alpine athletes arrived in Stubai, Austria last week, for a two week trip of training in top-notch conditions.  The group, along with coaches Tom Sell, Pavel Stastny, Jack Bailey, Chelsea Marshall, and Matt Beers, have trained on and off snow, benefitting from all the area has to offer. The coaches…