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HomeLight Killington Cup: Race and Events Schedule

November 27, 2019
Race Schedule** Saturday, Nov. 30 7 a.m. Festival Village opens 9 a.m. Opening ceremony parade featuring VARA athletes 9:45 a.m. Giant Slalom run 1 1 p.m. Giant Slalom run 2 Award ceremony will immediately follow Sunday, Dec. 1 7 a.m. Festival Village opens 9 a.m. Opening ceremony parade featuring USSA Eastern Division athletes 9:45 a.m.…

HomeLight Killington Cup Festival Village Map

November 27, 2019
The Festival Village will be at the base of Superstar, located at the K-1 base area at the top of Killington Road. The spectating area will have free spectating zones surrounding the race finish, two ticketed grandstands, ticketed VIP areas and credentialed media zones. Spectators will be able to see approximately 40-50%of the Slalom course…

How to get to the Killington World Cup

November 27, 2019
Parking and transportation options are plentiful KILLINGTON— Attendance as well as parking is free for spectators at the Killington Cup this weekend. Guests staying at a property on Killington Road are encouraged to use the free shuttle and those staying in condominiums on East Mountain Road will have their own shuttle service available. Guests driving…

Mikaela Shiffrin is off to a great start

November 27, 2019
Shiffrin won the first Slalom race of the season, took second in Giant Slalom Giant Slalom Soelden, AUT Oct. 26, 2019 Alice Robinson Mikaela Shiffrin Tessa Worley Slalom Levi, FIN Nov. 23, 2019 Mikaela Shiffrin Wendy Holdener Katharina Truppe Shiffrin breaks another record Record breaking skier Mikaela Shiffrin has broken another record ahead of the…

Mother’s Celestial Inspirations: We are all related

November 27, 2019
by Cal Garrison This week’s horoscopes are coming out under the light of a void-of-course Scorpio Moon that will remain in that state until it turns new and enters Sagittarius on Tuesday, Nov. 26. As you all know, we are barreling down on the Thanksgiving holiday. I find it interesting that Venus, also known as…

The Movie Diary: The Good Liar

November 27, 2019
Tour de Force I drove my family into the Blue Ridge Mountains this past weekend for a little rest and relaxation before the holiday season officially kicks off. We stayed at a beautiful establishment called the Grove Park Inn, which has been around since 1913 and has hosted everyone from presidents to sports heroes to…

Monday Matters: Pay yourself first

November 27, 2019
Each month you settle down to pay bills. You pay your mortgage lender. You pay the electric company. You pay the trash collector. But do you pay yourself? One of the most basic tenets of sound investing involves the simple habit of “paying yourself first,” in other words, making the first payment of each month…

The Outside Story: All about antlers

November 27, 2019
By Dave Mance III The blast of a gunshot: a deep bass roar she feels in her chest, followed by a treble ringing in her ears. The buck drops. The hunter remains in her crouch, watching the animal’s last breaths through her scope. When he is still she rises, trembling from the cold and the…

Vermont Huts adds Shrek’s Cabin in Pittsfield to its network

November 27, 2019
PITTSFIELD—New for this season, the Vermont Huts Association has announced that the Shrek’s Mountaintop Stone Hut will be joining its network of seven huts across Vermont. The cabin, which sleeps two to four and is located on the summit of a small mountain in the Green Mountain Trails network in Pittsfield, features a wood stove,…

Rutland stuffs the bus

November 27, 2019
By Ed Larson Students and faculty of Rutland’s Mount Saint Joseph Academy pulled together to collect 2,644 food items, which were transported to the downtown Rutland shopping plaza and provided to the Stuff-A-Bus holiday food campaign. The food will go to assist the BROC food shelf and other community food shelves over the holiday period.

Mountain Times – Volume 48, Number 48: Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2019

November 27, 2019
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Tree Talk: Trees and speed

November 27, 2019
One of the specifications included in late summer completion of the Cold River Road relocation project, thanks to engineer Mark Youngstrom, required the planting of trees where the original Cold River Road was. Otter Creek Engineering prepared the road project plan, M&M Construction did the road relocation, and Youngstrom with Tree Warden Gary Salmon got…

Killington receives positive snow control for World Cup

November 22, 2019
KILLINGTON – Killington Resort on Thursday, Nov. 21, received a positive snow control announcement from FIS (Internal Ski Federation), the governing body of the Audi FIS Ski World Cup. “This is to inform you that the Women’s' Audi FIS Ski World Cup races in Killington (USA) are confirmed following the official snow control from today…

Windsor Central school district leaves new build questions unanswered

November 20, 2019
By Curt Peterson The Windsor Central Unified School District Board’s “new build committee” met for the first time on Nov. 6. Woodstock representative Ben Ford told the Mountain Times the committee’s mission is “to advance our endorsement of the new building option.” Ford outlined options for financing the razing of the existing Woodstock High School/Middle…

Ludlow Electric honors the late Howard Barton with substation dedication

November 20, 2019
Staff report The Village Ludlow Electric Light Department dedicated a substation to the late Howard Barton Jr. on Friday, Nov. 8, who spent 35 years working at the electric department. Barton was an active community member who died of a heart attack while mountain biking near his home in Ludlow on June 2, 2018. He…