By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul The Karner blue, New Hampshire’s state butterfly, is a wisp of a thing, a tiny fluttering of silvery-blue wings. Unless you happen to be wandering through a pine barren or black-oak savannah, however, you’re unlikely to spot one. Even then, it would be a challenge, as the butterflies have been…

  Empathy, perspective and ethics: refugees and Rutland Today I am going to leave my usual topics and briefly dive into a topic that is in the news here locally: Syrian refugees coming to Rutland. I was surprised and pleased when Mayor Louras announced that Rutland would be hosting 100 Syrian refugees. I was proud,…

Most of the young couples I know who have recently gotten married lived together for a couple years before becoming engaged. For two people who have cohabitated romantically for an extended period of time, their daily routine no different from that of a traditional married couple, does marriage make their lives together significantly different in…

By Stephen Seitz KILLINGTON — Connor Solimano, of Rutland, has been named as a student member of the Vermont State Board of Education. “I’m excited to be a part of the board, and I hope to bring my perspective as a student,” Connor Solimano said. “We’re all pretty excited. My parents are proud.” Connor’s father,…

By Amy McClure Collen Doyle By Amy McClure BRIDGEWATER — Collen Doyle, an actor and comedian, and 2006 graduate from Woodstock Union High School returned to Bridgewater and opened the Woolen Mill Comedy Club on the second floor of the Bridgewater Mill Mall in December of 2014. Prior to that, Doyle spent eight years living…

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PITTSFORD—On May 24, 2016, the Vermont State Police were notified by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) of their concern of an intimate relationship between Victoria “Jaydon” Hunt, from Whiting, Vt., and a 14-year-old girl. The Rutland Unit for Special Investigations became involved and during investigation it was learned Hunt has engaged in…

HARTFORD — On Saturday, June 25, at approximately 4:30 p.m., Hartford Police were dispatched to a report of a dogfight in the off-leash area of Watson Upper Valley Dog Park in Hartford Village. Witnesses reported that an off-duty police officer had shot and killed a pit bull that had attacked his dog at the park,…

LUDLOW — On June 24, at approximately 7:47 p.m., the Vermont State Police, in conjunction with the Ludlow Police Department, conducted a motor vehicle stop on a silver Chevy Equinox for a cracked windshield, on Vermont Route 103, near the Ludlow and Cavendish town line.  During the stop, it was determined that the operator, Jeffrey…

  SPRINGFIELD — On Monday, June 20, at 3:19 p.m. Vermont State Police and Springfield Fire responded to a single vehicle crash on I-91 at mile marker 39N in Springfield. Jerry Schleis, age 68 from Tombstone, AZ, was traveling north in his 2008 Chevrolet pick-up truck with a bed camper when the vehicle drifted into the…

SHREWSBURY — On June 26, at 10:27 p.m., members of the Vermont State Police responded to an ATV crash on Upper Cold River Road in the town of Shrewsbury. The Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Department also responded to assist at the crash scene. Troopers arrived on scene and through the course of the investigation learned Neal…

PITTSFORD—On June 22, 2016, at about 10 p.m., Vermont State Police troopers responded to the Champlain Farms convenience store, located at 3705 U.S. Route 7 in the town of Pittsford, for a reported armed robbery. According to police, the robbery involved a lone Caucasian male robber, who entered the store with a weapon and demanded…

BRANDON — Federal authorities on Wednesday, June 22, arrested a Brandon woman as part of a national health care fraud crackdown. The Office of the U.S. Attorney in Burlington said the 36-year-old Misti Baker was involved in Medicaid fraud, and that a federal judged had ordered that she be jailed pending a detention hearing on…