By Brett Yates The town of Pittsfield is looking to improve the public basketball court behind the town hall, where it intends to add new blacktop, lights, and fencing. During meetings this spring, the Pittsfield Rescue Plan Committee proposed using a portion of the municipality’s ARPA dollars to repave the court, but more recently, officials…

By DJ Dave Hoffenberg Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime is finally bringing their show to Rutland, after it got canceled last time for bad weather. Badfish is kicking off the Friday Night Live Concert Series on Center Street this Friday 7 p.m. Badfish has been around for 21 years, currently in their 22nd year. I…

Friday, July 22 at 5 p.m.— RUTLAND —The popular Friday Night Live summer music series will return to Center Street for three weekends in July and August. The free concert series features Badfish on July 22, All-4-One on Aug. 5, and Dean Ford & the Beautiful Ones on Aug. 19. In addition to music, families…

By Jonathan Dowds Editor’s note: Jonathan Dowds is the deputy director of Renewable Energy Vermont. New Hampshire households are about to get hit hard, really hard, by rate hikes that will increase electricity bills by more than $70 a month. These unprecedented rate hikes reflect surging natural gas prices and New Hampshire’s ill-fated decision to…

By Sheri Curtin Harley Ruffle, the 4-year-old snowboard phenomenon from Killington, continues to make waves in the snowboard industry in the off season. Ruffle is a team rider for VTSP (Vermont Slope Posse) with multiple sponsorships. He’s now part of Wasserman Sports Talent Agency out of Los Angeles under Circe Wallace — one of the…

Fred Thys/VTDigger CNBC has ranked Vermont as the top state to live in, same as last year. The cable business news channel cited how easy it is to vote in Vermont as one reason, mentioning that residents can opt to vote by mail or in person, and can start voting 45 days before election day.…

A $7,500 grant will be celebrated at RCHS on July 22 Friday, July 22 — RUTLAND — The Rutland County Humane Society is set to receive a $7,500 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love during a special celebration at Rutland Petco, 312 US Route 7, on July 22 at 10 a.m., in support of…

Thursday, July 21 — FAIR HAVEN — “The Spirit of Johnny Cash- Harold Ford, Our June & The Cash Band” will make their first visit to the Fair Haven Green on Thursday, July 21. Members of this group are Harold Ford, Kelly Hurley, Archie Anderson, Heath Scott, and Les Wheeler. The band describes their genre…

By Angelo Lynn/Addison County Independent Editor’s note: Angelo Lynn is the editor and publisher of the Addison County Independent, a sister publication to the Mountain Times. The esteemed Atlantic Monthly ran a commentary by Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, titled “America is in Denial.” Shortly after, The Washington Post editorial board penned an editorial in which…

By Jacob Knipes Downtown Rutland will be receiving a new art exhibit this fall. The donation of a train statue currently located in the West Rutland Art Park was approved in a unanimous vote at the Board of Aldermen meeting on July 5. The statue, officially titled “Across Time and Space,” was built by Chinese…

Wednesday, July 20 — PROCTORSVILLE —The town of Cavendish will present the next concert in its 2022 annual summer music series on Wednesday, July 20 at 6 p.m. at the Svec Memorial Green in Proctorsville when The Morning Dudes will take the stage. The Morning Dudes play songs from the wide and varied repertoire of…

By Catherine Schmitt Some things are so familiar, so common, that they are often overlooked. Such is the case with northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis). Also known as eastern white cedar, this tree grows throughout the Northeast, but only in certain places, in part because it has evolved many ways to live and grow that…

By Curt Peterson No one would argue that the Bedell Farm in Hartland, with its crumbling barn, overgrown fields, poorly-aging home and some rusty implements, wasn’t an eyesore. So when Rock Webster’s land improvement company cleared the structures, leveled the grounds and planted grass, local residents were elated. Then stakes appeared, and “the question” filled…

By DJ Dave Hoffenberg You have three chances to see an amazing artist who is new to Killington but only one chance to eat a six course meal while doing so. Rivershed Killington will have Valerie Barretto performing Friday and Saturday, July 22 and 23, 6-9 p.m. She’s also performing that Sunday, July 24 from…

Dear Editor, The recent proposal by Vermont Huts Association (VHA) and Moosalamoo Association (MA) to construct a hut next to Silver Lake in the Moosalamoo National Recreation and Education Area in Leicester (Addison County) reveals numerous problems with the USDA/forest service’s management of the Green Mountain National Forest (GMNF). Pitched as connecting trails and establishing…