STATEWIDE – Finding a gift that will continue to give for a full year is a challenge, but the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept. has a solution: a license gift certificate for hunting and fishing licenses. “It’s a perfect gift for a friend or family member who hunts or fishes,” said Fish and Wildlife Commissioner…

By Curt Peterson The controversial Hartland Three Corners intersection of Route 5, Route 12 and Quechee Road redesign and renovation project came close to demise at the Monday, Dec. 19 Select Board meeting. Members were asked to commit to a planned Jan. 4 “request for proposals” (bid invitations) based on engineers’ latest estimate of total…

By Curt Peterson Windsor Central school district voters will be asked to approve integrating $1.65 million to cover next steps in building a new middle school/high school complex into the district’s budget at March 2023 Town Meetings in seven towns, to be spread out over five years. Board member Ben Ford of Woodstock and Finance…

Kathleen (Kathy) Ann Judge (née Garahan) passed away peacefully on Sunday, Dec. 11 in Dallas, Texas.  She was predeceased by her husband of 52 years, James (Jim) J. Judge, in August 2020.  Kathy was born at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina on July 20, 1943, the first child of Tom and Kate Garahan.  During…

By Karen D. Lorentz Pete Duffy has seen enough of the world and skied in so many places that when he expresses a preference for living in Vermont, you know he’s found his home — the place that completes him. The same can be said for his position as the Killington ambassador program manager, where…

By Karen D. Lorentz Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series on the early “lost” ski areas that propelled several generations of skiers in the greater Rutland Region. Vermont skiing dates back to 1892 when the Woodstock Inn opened and winter guests took cross-country ski treks to the nearby country club. By…

VEPC approval clears way for bond vote on Town Meeting Day By Polly Mikula The town’s Killington Forward plan is approaching actuality. The plan — two years in the making — aims to provide clean water, road improvements, development of a mixed-use Six Peak Killington village, and to create workforce and affordable housing. Over the…

110K households lost power Staff report  The first major storm of the year brought nearly two feet of heavy, wet snow to the region and caused outages for 110,000 customers, according to Green Mountain Power. “This storm ranked as one of the worst storms in recent history,” said Kristin Carlson, GMP’s vice president of strategy…

By Karen D. Lorentz Fifty years ago on Oct.  15, 1972 Judy Storch founded Killington Valley Real Estate (KVRE) with Pat Denis. Sally Bridges became her partner after Denis left, and when Bridges left to become an appraiser, Storch became KVRE’s sole proprietor. She sold the business to Bret Williamson and his wife Kim in…

Pilot program launched in Killington, will serve the Rutland Region Casella Waste Systems introduced its Mack® LR Electric model, the first electric refuse vehicle in the state, in a ceremony at the Killington Grand Hotel on Dec. 9 in front of over 100 onlookers including local and state representatives, local business leaders, customers, employees, and…

By Angelo Lynn/Addison Independent The Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union Board is well on its way to adopting a fiscal year 2024 budget with preliminary numbers projecting a 10.71% increase in spending, with certain line items like fuel seeing a 48% increase over the prior year. The Consumer Price Index (inflation) is around 9% over the…

By Katy Savage Killington is removing beaver dams to stop stormwater runoff and protect infrastructure. The town was granted a stream alteration permit from the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) on Nov. 23  to remove and downsize five beaver dams in a 6.1-mile stretch along the Ottauquechee River corridor. “The town of Killington has a…

Adds to $400K grant it received in May Staff report PITTSFORD —Pittsford Village Farm was awarded $335,834 from the Northern Border Regional Commission and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture rural development funding programs on Nov. 16. This is on top of a $400,000 award in congressional funding announced by Sen. Bernie Sanders in May. But…

By Rep. Jim Harrison The popular holiday poem, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” by Clement Moore, was first published nearby in a Troy, New York newspaper on Dec. 23, 1823. With this past weekend’s fresh snow cover, the visions of St. Nick depicted in the poem should be alive and well this week. My best…

Now that winter has finally arrived with lots of snow for snowmobiling fun, the U.S. Forest Service reminds snowmobile enthusiasts to put safety first out on the trails, not only in the national forest but on all lands. Carelessness and hazards beneath the snow can ruin your whole day. For this and other reasons, snowmobilers…