Roadmap was shaped by public input, focused on state resiliency Vermont health officials announced the release of the Age Strong VT 10-Year Action Plan, a comprehensive roadmap designed to address the evolving needs of . The strategic plan, titled “Age Strong VT: A Vision for the Future,” is the result of extensive public input. The…

By Chelsea Pond Pippa Scott, a Killington Mountain School student, speaks at Killington’s Grand Hotel about teen suicide. By Chelsea Pond The Community News Service is a program in which University of Vermont students work with professional editors to provide content for local news outlets at no cost. On Sunday, Feb. 18, a frigid and…

  By Sarah Calvin On Wednesday, Feb. 21, the Killington Pico Area Association (KPAA) hosted a Select Board candidate forum for the public. Incumbent Jim Haff and challenger Andrew Gieda are vying for the open seat on the board and answered a series of questions, which they were given the day prior. Around 25 people…

By Habib Sabet and Ethan Weinstein/VTDigger In fall 2023, the leaders of the Milton Town School District unveiled the design for its new elementary and middle school (pre-K-8) at a cost of $200 million, which gave the community pause, but it was the challenges of the current annual budget cycle that ultimately led the district to table the…

Data courtesy state of Vermont, map by VTDigger Map shows how school districts throughout the state have been effected by the new changes in tax capacity as a result of Act 127’s most recent updates in calculations. By Erin Petenko/VTDigger and Polly Mikula Rural areas of the state stand to gain the most from a new…

By Katy Savage Woodstock residents will decide on an $8.02 million budget on Town Meeting Day March 5, of which $6.6 million is to be raised from taxes. The budget is up about 4% from last year and expected to increase taxes about 6%. Voters will also decide on a 1% option tax. The tax…

By Katy Savage Rutland City voters will decide on whether to change the language of a charter to remove fluoride from the water on Town Meeting Day, March 5. Residents and professionals had mixed emotions at a Jan. 29 public hearing. Some residents said having fluoride in the city water is a violation of medical…

MVSU Board of Directors Each of the seven district towns elects its own representative on the school district board of directors. Each town has two representatives, except for Woodstock which has six [due to its population which is about three times larger in population than the next biggest town in the district.] Representatives serves three-year…

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If you are a gardener you are probably ready to put the snowy days behind you and spend some time “playing in the dirt.” I have already purchased my veggie and flower seeds and just looking at the pictures on the packets puts me in a happy place! Winter is an ideal time to purchase…

It wasn’t supposed to snow. Like there wasn’t an inkling that there would be anything coming out of the sky at all. It was predicted to be a normal grey Vermont day, nothing special scheduled at all except for the KMS Future Stars race. But Vermont weather is never what you expect it to be.…

There are several families who live in my neighborhood. Most are either retirees or younger couples with adolescent children. I know all of them somewhat but none of them deeply, meaning, I’ve had wonderful conversations and interactions with many of them over the years, but very few are coming over for drinks.  One neighbor who…

When it comes to winter in the North Country, brown is not beautiful. Climate change has brought sudden and extreme fluctuations in weather along with a dramatic decline in the amount of snowfall that blankets the ground. This is especially marked in the Northeast, where winter is warming faster than the national average. Our weather…

Part 3 of a series on building our Killington dream lodge Every weekend and during vacations we fled to Vermont for more adventures while building the ski lodge Dad dreamed of. While residing in our tent in the woods, we cleared the land and leveled the ground, no small achievement in a state made of rock.…