Friday, June 30, 4 p.m.—QUECHEE—Internationally recognized jewelry artist Stacy Hopkins and her gallery, Scavenger, located in White River Junction, are excited to announce the completion of a special collection created in collaboration with the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences (VINS). This organization is dedicated to the rehabilitation and protection of birds, raptors and wildlife. For…

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Tuesday, June 20, Rochester revoted on whether or not to join the proposed Act 46 school merger. In the initial vote, April 11, Rochester and Bethel voted for the merger by wide margins, but the revote Tuesday reversed Rochester's stance. Residents voted 236 against the merger; 144 for it. South Royalton also revoted June 13,…

By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul As spring’s crescendo of birdsong mellows now to a steadier summer trill, I listen for melodies I don’t recognize and try to figure out which birds are singing. I look through binoculars at their feathers, the color variations along head and chest, the size of their beaks, the shape of their…

By Marguerite Jill Dye We’ve been hiking up the left side of Mt. Killington from the last patch of snow just above the K-1 Lodge, up Bittersweet and a series of trails and pebbly service roads. We pass the tops of the Snowshed lift, the Vertigo Head Wall Trail (so steep I would never attempt…

By Mary Ellen Shaw Now that summer is here it brings back memories of summer meals and ice cream treats enjoyed outdoors back in the 60s and 70s. The A&W Restaurant on upper North Main Street was one of the “in places” to go. It held a special appeal to teenagers who had a car. …

By Brett Yates In “Bit Rot,” Douglas Coupland’s recent collection of essays and stories, the author writes, “In the future, every day of the week will be a Thursday. We’re all working toward the grave, and life will be one perpetual fast-food job of the soul. The weekend? Gone. We all pretty much know it…

This article will be published during my first week of recovery from moderate lumbar surgery. The surgery is called foraminotomy, a procedure designed to widen the passageway for my sciatic nerve. The thing I want to talk about this week is snowmaking.  The reason this season has been so glorious and long (skiing well into…

By Kevin Theissen “Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while, and look at people’s faces,” said Amy Poehler, a comedian. Mobile technology: the next generation Faster and more efficient mobile phones are on the horizon. That’s right, 5G is almost here, according to Network World. If you were never quite sure what…

Kimberly and Matthew Johnson and their family have recently been selected by Habitat for Humanity of Rutland County to live in a new home being built at 42 Cleveland Ave. in Rutland. This family of four is currently renting an older two bedroom unit in a building that houses seven other units in the same…

By Stephen Seitz LUDLOW—If nothing else, the Black River High School class of 2017 will remember their commencement speaker with a smile, as diplomas were handed out to the 26 new graduates on June 17. The class voted to hear from Craig Goodman, who founded and runs Goodman’s American Pie in Ludlow. He was graduated…

DANBY—In the early evening on June 1, state troopers from the Rutland Barracks were notified of a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Danby Mountain and Brook roads in the Danby. It was reported the crash involved three persons, with one person trapped and unresponsive inside the vehicle. The Danby-Mt. Tabor Fire Dept., East Dorset…

DANBY—On Wednesday at about 9 a.m., state police from the Rutland Barracks were called to an accident in Danby involving explosives. Police said Kenneth Williams, an employee of Vermont Quarries Corp., had been attempting to dispose of blasting caps when an explosion occurred, injuring him in the face. Williams was transported to Rutland Regional Medical…

An inmate at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility is due in court to face charges of perjury. Police said Nicholas Miller, an inmate at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility, contacted the state police, bureau of criminal investigations in May and reported having inappropriate contact with his wife’s probation officer. Miller demanded his wife…

Three College of St. Joseph (CSJ) students sit on stools, looking markedly out of place hunched over a small blue table covered in Legos. One is building a car, the other is sorting, and the third is taking notes. The students are just one group involved in the college’s collaboration with Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum, which allows CSJ students…