Friday, Jan. 4 at 12:45 p.m.—KILLINGTON—Free the heel - free the mind. Learn how to telemark or build your skills every Friday at Pico Mountain. Looking to try something new or push the boundaries of what you already know? Join fellow free heelers and see for yourself why telemark skiing is growing and creating a…

Wednesday, Jan. 1 at 7:30 p.m.—WHITE RIVER JUNCTION— Northern Stage, The Barrette Center for the Arts, presents the Sound of Music. Playing on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, January 1-5, 2020, this family classic runs 2 1/2 hours, with a 15 minute intermission. Based on the true story of the Von Trapp Family Singers, this…

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By DJ Dave Hoffenberg The top 10 live shows I attended in the region this past year There were a lot of really good shows in the region in 2019. I narrowed the list down to my top 10 favorites and put them in chronological order. We started Jan. 10 with a rocking Kung Fu…

Saturday, Jan. 4 at 9 a.m.—KILLINGTON— Join us for this traveling freeskiing demo tour that focuses on fun and eating pizza!  Come ski with Andy Parry and the Tell a Friend Tour crew in the Killington Parks. Guest skiers for the Tell A Friend Tour are TBD. Andy Parry and the TAFT crew are giving away $3,000!…

Families visiting Okemo’s Jackson Gore base area for the holiday season, and through the winter, will get to experience a newly constructed play area made of snow called the Gore Snowground. The sculpted pile of snow adds an element of fun for children to enjoy when they’re not skiing or snowboarding. There are slides made…

The Sharon Academy has announced Mary Newman as the new head of school. Newman is currently the assistant head of school at TSA, where she also teaches Spanish, serves as the dean of faculty, the director of performing arts, and has been a long-time student advisor. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead…

Dear Editor, Vermont’s forest-based economy generates roughly $3.8 billion annually. This figure varies from year to year. A little less than half of that revenue is associated with the timber and maple industry. More than half is generated by forest-based recreation. Vermont currently incentivizes the timber side of the equation while doing very little for…

Dear Editor, As I write this, a block of Senators and Congresspeople are preparing to deny that the Constitution of the United States is on fire. It is a fire set by the President and fanned by their own actions; actions they commit solely out of fear that they might lose their jobs and have…

Editor’s Note: Ed James wrote the following 20 years ago for the Addison County Independent, a sister paper to the Mountain Times. It seems as appropriate today as then. Dear Editor, The first day of winter — Dec.  22 — and already winter had been here since the first of November with grey, rainy days…

By Paul Costello The temptation with bad news, like that of the closing of Green Mountain College, is to sit on one’s hands, paralyzed by structural change beyond immediate local control. The alternative is to come together, line up strategies and do what is in your power to move your community forward. That is just…

Published studies have long found a correlation between obesity in children and decreased executive function. New research published in JAMA Pediatrics, based on data mined from a massive national research study, suggests that a change in brain structure – a thinner prefrontal cortex – may help explain that interrelationship. “Our results show an important connection; that…

Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, the state’s minimum wage will increase $.18, from $10.78 to $10.96, as determined by the Department of Labor’s Economic & Labor Market Information Division. The calculation for this increase, as well as for subsequent years, is determined by state statute, which calculates the rate of inflation using the Consumer Price Index…

The Agency of Commerce and Community Development is preparing for the launch of the New Worker Relocation Grant Program on Jan. 1. The program offers reimbursement grants of up to $7,500 to new residents who move to Vermont and take a job with a Vermont business. During the 2019 legislative session, the Legislature and governor…

On January 6 a questionnaire will be mailed to some Vermont anglers asking for information about their fishing activities, as well as their interests and opinions on fishing and fisheries management in Vermont. The survey is directed and funded by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and is being carried out under contract by Responsive…