By Rep. Jim Harrison Entering the fifth week of the 2019 session the pace is picking up. Committees have had a chance to review and dissect some of the proposals before them and are starting to push bills out to the House or Senate floors for action. Early bills in the House seeing action thus…

By Sen. Dick McCormack Under our federal and state constitution, the United States is a republic. Each state is governed by republican principles as well. I suggest that for a republic to be a republic its citizens must be republican citizens, knowledgeable about republican principles, familiar with republican structures, committed to their duty as citizens…

By Chet Hagenbarth The general fund budget is comprised of three primary sections: operations, capital funds and debt service. This year’s budget proposes to reduce the operations budget, bring capital funding to a sustainable level, and hold debt service funding at or below the most recent 5-year levels.  This budget and Articles 6 & 7…

Building on the regional marketing campaign and grassroots efforts to help people move to Vermont, Rutland’s Regional Marketing Initiative (RMI) is “rolling out the red carpet” to prospective new Rutland County residents. The RMI today announced the creation of Rutland Red Carpet, a program to provide a local “concierge” to help people considering a move…

Staff report Editor’s note: Also see the Killington town manager’s report on the budget on page 4. Two candidates are vying for a Killington Select Board seat on Town Meeting Day. Incumbent Patty McGrath is running against Charles Claffey for a three-year term. McGrath, the owner of McGrath’s Irish Pub and the Inn at Long…

Staff Report KILLINGTON— The Killington Resort Hospitality Training Program has a new home. After Green Mountain College announced two weeks ago that it was closing in May, thereby folding its partnership with Killington, the resort quickly turned to Castleton University as a host. The new partnership has been given verbal approval from the New England…

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By Cal Garrison a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a brand new, Aquarius moon, on the heels of the Midwinter Cross Quarter. Halfway between the Winter Solstice, and the Spring Equinox, we sit at a tipping point. Out here in the southwestern corner of the U.S.…

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By Marguerite Jill Dye I was mesmerized and awed by the full supermoon lunar eclipse just past midnight. Its rich red hue was startling. No wonder the moon’s always mystified me and our ancestors, since their beginning. With giant Jupiter in the sign of Sagittarius, this year will be filled with cosmic power in expansion…

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Friday, Feb. 1, 8 p.m.—RUTLAND— The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. They return to Rutland’s Paramount Theatre on Friday, Feb. 1 for an 8 p.m. show. The group was born in December, 1981 when some staffers for Senator…

Feb. 1, 2, 6—RANDOLPH— The Campbell Brothers mine a rich vein of music from the African-American, Holiness-Pentecostal gospel repertoire, but with a high-energy twist – the wailing, swinging, singing sound of the steel guitar. The gospel greats will serve up an evening of soul-stirring “Sacred Steel” music on Friday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at…