By Dom Cioffi I was 10 years old in 1976, a little kid who loved sports and playing with his friends. I also loved going to the movies. Early on, my mother used to take me to see animated films and the occasional musical. Later, I became enamored with the “Herbie the Love Bug” series…

The Pittsford Village Farm is going to get a pavilion for outdoor activities and entertainment. In partnership with Maclure Library the Village Farm participated in The Better Places grant program, an initiative of the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development and the Vermont Community Foundation. The statewide program “empowers Vermonters to create vibrant and…

By Merisa Sherman The crowd gathered slowly, but you could feel the energy was there, just under the surface and waiting for the excitement that was to come. It was a subdued kind of energy, with people quietly chatting while they ate their lunches, sipping on local draft beer and catching up with friends they…

By Brett Yates Next summer, town officials in Chittenden expect to oversee the logging of 253 acres of municipally owned forest. On Monday, the Chittenden Select Board signed a permit application for the use of a United States Forest Service (USFS) road to facilitate the harvest of the Michigan Brook and Rutland Grammar School woodlots.…

By Jess Kimball Editor’s note: Jess Kimball is an administrative assistant at The National Midwifery Institute and managing editor of the Journal for Pre and Perinatal Psychology. Jess runs a private practice, Jess Kimball Wellness (formerly Sunflower Postpartum Care LLC), providing families with birth and postpartum doula support and lactation counseling. She is also a…

Saturday, Sept. 17 — BRANDON — Bluegrass is the ultimate good- time music, honoring tradition whilst encouraging innovation. So Brandon Music is delighted to welcome back Snake Mountain Bluegrass on Saturday Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Always a firm favorite with Brandon Music audiences, (they performed in Nov. 2021 to a full house), Snake Mountain’s “toe-tapping…

Killington Resort and official tire partner, Nokian Tyres, reintroduce Buy a pass. Plant a tree. Play Forever., an invitation to take environmental action to address the output of carbon emissions. For every season pass sold until Oct. 22, Nokian Tyres and Killington are teaming up to plant a tree. Trees will be planted to help…

The ninth annual Pie in the Face for Chase was held this past Sunday, Sept. 11 at Moguls Sports Pub in Killington, and it was the charity’s biggest success to date. Twenty-four local celebrities took hundreds of pies in the face, raising $30,000 for Chase William Kuehl and the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation (PMSF). All of…

For the last half century, turning 65 stamped the time when you would leave your job, file for Social Security, begin your pension and enroll in Medicare. But is that the case anymore? The retirement environment has changed. Full retirement age is now 66 or 67, corporate pensions have been replaced by 401(k) plans, and…

By Lee Emmons The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) lives out its days in relative seclusion. Like the gray catbird, which has a similar fondness for thickets and shrubby areas, brown thrashers haunt areas of dense cover, although discerning eyes may be able to spot these birds within that habitat. Even when they’re out of sight,…

By Rep. Jim Harrison In a few short weeks, ballots will be mailed to all registered voters in Vermont for the general election this fall. Voters can choose to fill the ballots out ahead of time and return to their town or choose to wait and vote in person on Nov. 8. For me, my…

By Curt Peterson Kerry Gawalt and Stephen Leslie, who operate Cedar Mountain Farm in Hartland, are Northeast Region finalists for the 2022 Leopold Conservation Award, the winner to be announced in a few weeks, according to a letter from the sponsor, leopoldconservationaward.org. The prize is a $10,000 grant and a crystal award. Conservation organizations that…

By Erin Petenko/VTDigger Covid-19 levels in Vermont remain “low,” according to the Vermont Department of Health’s latest weekly surveillance update. The data comes amid the first week of the Omicron booster, also called the bivalent vaccine, which became available Wednesday, Sept. 7 in Vermont. This booster specifically targets the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron. About 80% of…

By Angelo Lynn Editor’s note: Angelo Lynn is the editor and publisher of the Addison County Independent, a sister publication to the Mountain Times. The latest news that a top-secret document describing a foreign government’s military defense readiness, including its nuclear capabilities, was found among the documents at ex-president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence is the…

By Tiffany Tan/VTDigger RUTLAND CITY — One sunny morning last week, Matt Prouty was driving down Main Street when a police dispatcher’s voice came over the car’s police radio, transmitting a report of an assault at the local Walmart store. “A male and a female were in the self-checkout. They were not scanning all the items,”…