By Katy Savage Ninja warriors are coming to town. Allyssa Beird and Joe Moravsky, who compete on the NBC television show “American Ninja Warriors,” are making a special guest appearance for the inaugural WreckTangle Championship at Killington Resort Sunday, Oct. 7 from 12-3 p.m. Morvasky, 29, has been competing on the show for the past…

By Julia Purdy RUTLAND—Some 50 citizens attended a candidates’ forum at the Rutland Public Library Saturday, Sept. 22, sponsored by the Rutland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Tabitha Pohl-Moore, president of the chapter, said that the focus of the forum was more about the issues than about party…

By Katy Savage As mountain biking trails are being blazed in the area, the sport is also growing in schools. The Woodstock High School Cycling Club launched at Woodstock Union Middle-High School this year under Todd Uva’s leadership. Uva, who has led mountain biking programs at Woodstock’s summer SOAK camp, presented the concept of the…

By Katy Savage Being a police officer took on a different meaning for James Baker when he became chief of the Rutland City Police Department in 2012. Instead of policing and stopping cars and hoping to find a criminal activity, he looked to the root cause of an issue. “The impact of the opiate crisis—I…

Staff report KILLINGTON—The U.S. Open of Mountain Biking is returning to Killington next year, Killington Human Resources Director Judy Geiger announced at the annual Killington Pico Area Association meeting, Wednesday, Sept. 26. The mountain biking competition, held Aug. 1-5, drew about 5,500 visitors to the resort in its inaugural year at Killington, Geiger said. Mountain…

By Lani Duke A lawsuit has been filed against the Castleton police chief. Officer Cheri McDermott, who was fired Dec. 3, 2017, filed the lawsuit Sept. 27, claiming Castleton Police Chief Peter Mantello planned to remove her and had said that women should not be police officers. The suit claims that she was treated more…

By Julia Purdy MENDON—An application for a land use permit has been filed with the Act 250 District Commission by Long Trail Engineering P.C. on behalf of the owner of the former Cortina Inn, Bhatka Development Company, LLC. The hearing before the Natural Resources Board for District 1 was held Sept. 12 at the Mendon…

By Cal Garrison a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Void-of-Course Gemini Moon. The Moon will enter Cancer at around 2 p.m. on Monday and will be within orb of a conjunction with the Trans-Neptunian Point, Hades, by 6 a.m. on Tuesday. This would be enough…

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By Marguerite Jill Dye We paid a visit to the Bennington Museum, eager to see the paintings and prints of “Crash to Creativity: The New Deal in Vermont,” which is on exhibit through Nov. 4. At the entrance to the museum I was struck by Vermonter Clyde V. Hunt’s sculpture, “Faith, Charity, Hope—The American Spirit.” Abraham…

Sept. 28-29—KILLINGTON—Wet your whistle with a backdrop of 4,241-feet of Vermont’s finest autumn foliage and enjoy live music, a plethora of fabulous food offerings and over 100 of the finest craft beers in the region. Brewfest returns to the Beast itself, Killington Resort, Saturday, Sept. 29. Since 1995, craft beer lovers have been flocking to the…

Thursday, Sept. 27, 6 p.m.—CHITTENDEN—Yvonne Daley, noted author, journalist and professor, will read from her latest book, “Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont,” on Thursday, Sept. 27 at Chittenden Public Library. The event will run from 6-7:30 p.m. The book is about the 1960s in Vermont, and…

Thursday, Sept. 27, 7 p.m.—CASTLETON—Join the Castleton Free Library on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. for a Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau event, “Song of the Vikings: The Making of Norse Myths,” presented by award-winning author Nancy Marie Brown. Like Greek mythology, Norse myths are still with us, inspiring storytellers from Tolkien to Neil Gaiman, Michael…

By Elizabeth Gribkoff/VTDIgger A legislative committee decided Thursday to postpone a vote on amending farm water quality rules following objections from environmental advocates. In a Sep. 18 letter to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, the Conservation Law Foundation, the Vermont Natural Resources Council and the Lake Champlain Committee said that proposed amendments do not…