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…

RUTLAND — Enjoy a beautiful run on the new Carriage Trail on Saturday, Oct. 18, put on by the Rutland Recreation & Parks Department. The race will start in Proctor. Participants should meet at Pine Hill / Giorgetti parking lot for a ride to Proctor and to register. Registration begins at 8:45 a.m. with the bus…

Lake Champlain has received yet another world-class fishing designation. Renowned fishing media outlet, World Fishing Network, ranks Lake Champlain one of the seven best smallmouth bass lakes in North America. The ranking, which was first reported on WFN’s website, describes Lake Champlain as “perhaps the best lake in all of North America for both quality largemouth and smallmouth…

Last farmers markets are typically Oct. 25-26 Attention “Farm To Family” coupon holders — the 2014 program ends Oct. 31. Remember to use them by then, or they will expire. These coupons can only be used at farmers’ markets. Please note that the last farmers’ markets of the season will most likely end on Saturday,…

CHITTENDEN — Judith Sargent of Chittenden, Vt., is getting creative in the fight against Parkinson’s disease. She is one of 13 artists whose artwork was selected to appear in the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation’s (PDF) 2014 Creativity and Parkinson’s Calendar. Her paper collage, entitled “Autumn Frolic,” appears in the month of October in the nationally-distributed charity calendar…

RUTLAND–Slightly Off Center is a cozy, intimate and inviting boutique selling women’s jewelry and home accessories, and gifts made locally and from around the world. Slightly off Center is located 146 West St., in downtown Rutland (across from the Post Office). Photo submitted The ribbon is cut at the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce ribbon…

RUTLAND–NBT Bank is located at Shops at Gryphon Square, 122 West St. in downtown Rutland (next to Small Dog Electronics). NBT Bank offers personal banking, asset management and business services through a network of over 155 banking locations in six states with local offices in Burlington, Williston and Essex Vermont and upstate New York and…