Clearly Moguls kept their winning ways going with a sweep of the “M” teams — McGrath’s Sushi and Max Team — but both were hard fought see-saw battles. C.M. welcomed back veteran ace pitcher “Ronzoni” Hacker to the mound, having been away for the past two games while scouting prospects down in Florida. His team got off…

By Cal Garrison a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Scorpio Moon. Yes, there’s a lot we can say, but time is of the essence this week. With an early, Independence Day deadline let’s skip the introduction, keep it simple, invite you to enjoy your Horoscope,…

FLORENCE—Aimee Nordmeyer of Florence, daughter of Susan and Mike Nordmeyer of Florence, received her doctorate of pharmacy degree in a hooding ceremony from New England University in Portland, Maine, on Sunday, May 21. Attending the ceremony were her parents, Ethan Nordmeyer, Ben Merkert and both maternal and paternal grandparents, Marie and John Manney of Rutland,…

By Joe Rankin It’s the classic story of unintended consequences. In 1890, Eugene Schieffelin released 60 starlings in New York’s Central Park with the hope of establishing a breeding population. Just in case the experiment wasn’t successful, he released another 40 the next year. Schieffelin was a big Shakespeare fan and he wanted to bring…

By Marguerite Jill Dye and Marguerite Loucks Dye Injustice, insurrection, independence, and new beginnings are what the 4th of July is all about. Pilgrims fled Europe for religious freedom and new opportunities. Many risked everything to cross the dangerous seas and begin a new life. People that came to New England were tough stock. They…

By Brady Crain Thee healing chronicles continued: I have good days, and I have bad days. The thing that gets me down the most is not really being able to move my torso at all. Luckily, tomorrow I will be allowed to start lifting weights with 20 pounds in each hand, as long as I…

By Brett Yates One of the important duties I’ve set for this column has been the task of settling, once and for all, in the inviolable space of print, some of the common internet debates in which pedantic males between the ages of 14 and 45 take part on message boards and in comment threads…

By Julia Purdy CUTTINGSVILLE—Just over a dozen people gathered in the meeting room at Spring Lake Ranch’s “Green House” Saturday, June 24, for an informal talk and guided walk to mark a double anniversary: Spring Lake Ranch’s 84th and Vermont Land Trust’s 40th. The two organizations became partners in 1993, when Spring Lake Ranch put…

Saturday, July 8, 4 p.m.—EAST POULTNEY—St. John’s Episcopal Church will celebrate Independence Day with a prayer service on Saturday, July 8 at 4 p.m. The service will take place at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Route 140 in East Poultney. The service will feature Dr. James Cassarino, director of the vocal, instrumental and Welsh heritage…

A former Rutland doctor has been arrested for multiple violations of prescription and Medicaid fraud. Police said in a press release Dr. Mark Logan, owner of Green Mountain Family Medicine, a Suboxone prescriber in Rutland City, was was engaged in criminal fraud for several years dating back to 2010 or earlier. A joint investigation was…

July 5-8—RUTLAND—“Road Trip Masters,” a travel destination show which airs on Discovery’s Destination America channel will be filming in the Rutland Region July 5-8. “Road Trip Masters” is a half-hour TV show hosted by two educators, Nick Kessler and Brian Fulmer. They have one mission: to tell the story of unique travel destinations across America. “Road Trip…

Judicial change requested, claim of bias Christopher Sullivan, convicted of drunken driving and leaving the scene of a pedestrian fatality, has asked that Judge Theresa DiMauro be replaced for his upcoming resentencing hearing. He was scheduled to appear before her June 29. In 2015, Sullivan was sentenced to four to 10 years in jail. The…

Archaeology dig on Buckner Preserve WEST HAVEN—Castleton University students are among the diggers laboring to learn about humans’ interaction with the environment in the southern Lake Champlain Basin. They are taking part in an archaeology dig at the Helen W. Buckner Preserve in West Haven. Altogether, students and others are excavating a large precontact campsite…

By Lani Duke After analyzing more than a century’s precipitation records, Dartmouth College researchers concluded northern New England weather patterns have indeed changed. Intense rain events of two or more inches inside of 24 hours are 53 percent more likely than they were in the 1990s, researcher Jonathan Winter told the Valley News, June 19.…

July 11-12—RUTLAND—Close to 500 million foreign travelers visited European destinations in 2016, according to the World Tourism Organization. That’s 4 percent more than the prior year — and the U.S. Postal Service is ready to prepare travelers for such future excursions. To make it easier to apply for a U.S. Passport, the Rutland post office will offer extended hours…