The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) issued its annual solicitation for new bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure projects on April 30. Last year, this grant program invested nearly $4 million throughout the state to build sidewalks, shared use paths, crossing improvements, and bike lanes. With the growing popularity of walking and bicycling for transportation and recreation,…

By Katy Savage WEST WOODSTOCK—The neighborhood is about to get a new restaurant. Sleep Woodstock, LLC hotel owner Patrick Fultz bought the former Woodbridge Coffeehouse and Cafe building next door. Fultz plans to reopen the restaurant and call it Eat Woodstock. Eat Woodstock will be open in mid-May. It’s going to feature simple breakfast and…

By Stephen Seitz CAVENDISH — Cavendish Town Elementary School is once again looking for an interim principal. The position became available with the retirement of current principal George Thomson, who will remain on the job until June 30. “We went through the search process for an interim principal,” said Meg Powden, the superintendent for the…

By Polly Lynn Mikula KILLINGTON—On May 1, four days after it opened for the season (to members only), Green Mountain National Golf Course, in Killington officially came under Brown Golf Management, including its employees. Thus far, it has four: Peter Bissell, superintendent; John MacAulay, mechanic (whom the town retained as employees separate from BGM per…

RUTLAND—Rutland’s Innovation Home, a super-efficient home at 60 Cleveland Avenue to be given away in a contest designed to raise awareness about available jobs, energy innovation and the community, is weeks ahead of schedule – and organizers are extending the deadline to apply to win it, to June 18. Green Mountain Power, Naylor & Breen…

By Anne Galloway, VTDigger Jack Sawyer, the 18-year-old accused of plotting to kill students at Fair Haven Union High School, was released into the custody of his father on Friday morning, April 27. He checked into a mental health facility on Friday evening, according to the Fair Haven police chief. Sawyer’s bail was reduced Wednesday, April 25, by…

By Alan Keays/VTDigger RUTLAND – A former Rutland woman has filed a lawsuit against the city, its police department and one of its officers, alleging the officer used excessive force in taking her into custody, slamming her to the ground leading to a concussion and other injuries. The officer, in an affidavit in support of…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of Moon that turned full at on April 29. As this column goes to print, the Moon is technically still in its full phase, in the sign of the Scorpion. Ordinarily this would be no big deal. After…

KILLINGTON—On May 1, Killington Resort announced the 2018 summer event schedule including the Fox US Open of Mountain Biking Aug. 1-5, and the Under Armour Mountain Running Series Aug. 25. In addition to more than 20 events this summer, Killington’s summer operations continue to expand. A Woodward WreckTangle and additional summer attractions will be added to the Adventure Center. Inspired…

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Wednesday, May 2, 7 p.m.–RUTLAND—Middlebury College Professor Emeritus Eric Davis will consider the U.S. Constitution’s importance and vulnerability in today’s world in a talk at Rutland Free Library on May 2 at 7 p.m. His talk, “A Republic, If You Can Keep It,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open…

Saturday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.—RANDOLPH—The powerful contemporary dance theatre work “Passing” – a creation of acclaimed Vermont dance artist Tracy Penfield and her California-based collaborator, dancer/choreographer Tamara Hurwitz Pullman – will have its world premiere performance at the Chandler Center for the Arts on Saturday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. The dance artists will be accompanied by live music…

Friday, April 27, 5 p.m.—POULTNEY—In the short and thankful words of poet Rupi Kaur, “Look down at your body, whisper, there is no home like you.” On April 27, “Dew of the Sea” by artist Rosemary Connelli will explore the celebration of self-love and the appreciation for the whales that exist in the Atlantic waters…

Saturday, April 28, 7 a.m.—WEST PAWLET—This Saturday, April 28, from 7 a.m.-2 p.m., the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union in collaboration with Casella Waste Management and ACE Carting Service will hold its third annual Community Clean Up for Currier Memorial School and the communities of Danby, Mount Tabor, as well as the Mettawee Community School and the communities of…