By Brett Yates The Downtown Rutland Partnership (DRP) has hired BENT Media, a video production company based in Franklin County, to create a series of advertisements that will promote shopping, dining, art, and entertainment in the city’s historic center. By its own description, the DRP, a nonprofit, serves to “manage, market and maintain the Downtown…

By Dave Hoffenberg, Chittenden Softball League commissioner The 2021 season has come to an end and what a great season it was. Congratulations to Rock Warriors for capturing their second straight league championship. The season officially ended with the All-Star Game and this year’s format was three or four vs the league. It’s a fun…

Friday, Aug. 27 at 6 p.m.—RUTLAND — The Chaffee Art Center will unveil the 42 Rutland BenchART community art project benches on the lawn of the art center. The project was created as a fundraiser for The Chaffee Art Center. Many of the benches will be permanently placed in locations in downtown Rutland and the…

By Dave Hoffenberg The 8th annual Pie in the Face for Chase was held this past Sunday, Aug. 22, at Dream Maker Bakers in Killington, and it was a huge success. Twenty-two local celebrities took hundreds of pies in the face, raising $22,000 for Chase William Kuehl and the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation (PMSF). All of…

KILLINGTON—Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty recently announced that Merisa Sherman has joined the company’s Killington office as a realtor. Originally a Killington weekender, Sherman grew up a competitive ski racer and avid skier. She attended Deerfield Academy, graduated from Colgate University and did her graduate studies at Fordham University before making Killington her home. She…

By Brooke Geery Sadie Boroff, 12, of New Canaan, Connecticut, sat on top of a ramp in the parking lot of the Darkside Snowboard shop watching as a few younger girls practiced their drop-ins. The sun baked down for the fifth day of skateboard camp, and Boroff wasn’t the only one showing signs of fatigue,…

Tuesday, Aug. 31 at 4 p.m.— NORWICH – On Aug. 31, farmers and farm crews from around Vermont are coming together at Honeyfield Farm in Norwich for the NOFA-VT’s sixth annual Farmer Olympics. Farm teams will show off their finely-honed skills in events ranging from physical to cerebral to just plain ridiculous. Past events have…

Aug. 28 - Nov. 14 — MANCHESTER — Our Tangled Choices: Art and the Environment will be on view in SVAC’s Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum from Aug.28 through Nov. 14. We will celebrate the opening of the exhibition with a reception on Aug. 28 from 3-5 p.m. Our Tangled Choices: Art and the Environment…

Aug. 28-29 — WOODSTOCK — Pollinators – the bees, butterflies, birds and moths we see zipping from flower to flower in the summer – are integral for growing close to 90% of our food supply. Billings Farm & Museum’s Pollination Celebration on Aug. 28-29, 2021 highlights this big contribution from such small creatures with hands-on…

Saturday, Aug. 28 — CHITTENDEN — The town of Chittenden will be celebrating Chittenden Day on Saturday, Aug. 28 at Barstow School, 223 Chittenden Road. The PTO-sponsored Bobcat Bolt Fun Run begins at 8:30 a.m. with registration opening at 8 a.m. Join us beginning at noon to enjoy a BBQ lunch put on by the…

Aug. 28-29 — LUDLOW — The Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce is announcing the special activities for the upcoming Best of Vermont Summer Festival, on Saturday, Aug. 28 and Sunday, Aug. 29 (rain or shine) at the Okemo Field on Route 103 in Ludlow. Throughout the weekend attendees will have the opportunity to participate…

By DJ Dave Hoffenberg Julia Rose has just released her first album. Unfortunately you won’t be able to hear her play it live because she just moved out West but you should definitely buy it. She’ll be in Colorado for a few seasons but is also embarking on her first national tour that will take…

By Merisa Sherman As I stood at the water’s edge, it felt like forever since I had been here. Between the rain and the rain and the rain, there have been pieces missing in my life this summer and, unfortunately, moments like this have been an enormous casualty. I hadn’t realized how much I had…

By Susan Shea Hikers climbing the Northeast’s highest peaks will traverse several different vegetative zones along the way. On the summits, they’ll likely encounter plants so hardy that many also grow in the Arctic, thousands of miles to the north. Many hikes begin in a northern hardwood forest dominated by beech, yellow birch, and sugar…

By Mary Ellen Shaw Several years ago I took a trip down Memory Lane in this column when I reminisced about the concerts held in Main Street Park. I was reminded of those memories when I read recently that the bandstand needs to be replaced. The Sunday night concerts were an important part of my…