By DJ Dave Hoffenberg RUTLAND—Dan Tyminski is excited to play the Vermont State Fair on Friday because he’s coming home. Tyminski has been living in Nashville, Tennessee, the past 15 years but was born and raised in West Rutland. “[I’m] so excited to be coming to the fair. I was shocked when it showed up…

By Marguerite Jill Dye “The most traumatic part of being a refugee for me was the loss of our home, our village, and being torn from the place where I grew up that I knew and loved,” Walter Hess said at our dining room table. An attentive audience had gathered to hear Walter and his…

Farm Dog Certification event attracted a variety of breeds By Robin Alberti KILLINGTON—A Farm Dog Certification (FDC) event was held this past Saturday, Aug. 11, at Mosher Farm and Excavating in Killington. The FDC test provides a series of exercises that represent situations a farm dog would encounter in a typical farm environment, according to…

KILLINGTON—Martin Wilson is the new Alpine coach at Killington Mountain School. Wilson, originally of Thunder Bay, Ontario, has more than 20 years of international experience. He comes to KMS most recently from the National Ski Academy in Canada, where he held the role of head men’s coach. Prior to that role, he also served as…

By Curt Peterson SOUTH ROYALTON—Two time capsules, discovered encased in a base beneath memorials in South Royalton were opened last Thursday evening, Aug. 9. Royalton, Select Board chair Larry Trottier, wearing surgical gloves and standing in the gazebo on the South Royalton green, sliced the end from each of the two copper capsules with a…

By Katy Savage RUTLAND—Back in the mid-1900s, when Dutch Elm Disease wiped out about 77 million elm trees, Vermont towns started replacing the canopy-like trees that lined streets and public parks with something similar—ash trees. Now, towns are contemplating how to cut down ash trees with the rise of the emerald ash borer. The ash…

CAVENDISH—Wednesday, Aug. 15 at 6 p.m.—The town of Cavendish and the Cavendish Community and Conservation Association invite everyone to spend an evening listening to the sounds of Sensible Shoes on the Proctorsville Green on Wednesday, Aug. 15 at 6 p.m. Sensible Shoes is a returning regular to the Proctorsville Green and is always warmly welcomed…

Carol D. Ehmann, 66, passed on Aug. 1 in her home in Chittenden. She was born on Dec. 26 in Flushing, New York, to Henry and Marion Kranichfeld. As part of an active outdoor ski family, Carol spent many of her high school summers building a ski home in Killington. Carol returned to Killington full…

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Election Data & Science Lab ranked Vermont first overall in elections administration for the 2016 election. The EPI is widely considered by state election administrators as the most reputable elections management index, and provides a non-partisan, data-driven measure of how well each state is performing in managing its national elections…

By Katy Savage Cooking was Mason Zeglen’s outlet through hard times. When his parents divorced, when he was 13 years old, he cooked. He stirred pots of jams. He canned and preserved vegetables and ate English sugar peas raw from the family’s large vegetable garden on River Road in Killington. He made just about anything…

West Park Road to be paved KILLINGTON— West Park Road will be paved for 1,200 feet, past Cliff Road, then millings will be applied for the rest of the road. That job, plus half a mile on Killington Road, will cost $176,000. The millings will come from the Killington Road paving project, with any left…

By Julia Purdy KILLINGTON—Obstacles are multiplying for the town’s installation of 15 solar trackers. The Killington Select Board discussed the actual cost per kilowatt-hour; the wisdom of taking on long-term debt in which the savings in electric bills would not be felt for some time; and whether the actual usage justified the up-front costs at…

By Cal Garrison a.k.a Mother of the Skye This week’s horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Virgo moon, in the aftermath of Saturday’s solar eclipse, with the sun and the moon sitting at the 18th degree of Leo. The last in a series of three eclipses, this one put the capstone on…

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