RUTLAND — On Tuesday, May 3 from 5:30 to 7 p.m., there will be an Act 166 (Universal Pre-K) meeting for parents at Rutland Town School, Post Road, Rutland. This event is sponsored by Rutland Central Supervisory Union and Rutland City School District. If you have a child 3, 4, or 5 not yet enrolled in Kindergarten, and…

MONTPELIER―Gov. Peter Shumlin announced on April 22 new results from five water samples collected near the Vermont Fire Academy on Academy Road, near the Vermont Police Academy. The results were received as part of the first batch of testing in the State’s effort to proactively investigate 11 additional sites statewide where perfluorocarbons may have been…

Saturday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. — POULTNEY — The Green Mountain College Choir and Cantorion, directed by prof. James Cassarino, will offer their annual spring performance Saturday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. in GMC’s Clara Hitchcock Fitzpatrick Jones Concert Hall (Ackley Hall). This year, the program recognizes the contributions of Paul and Marsha Fonteyn. Paul Fonteyn is retiring from…

By Lani Duke RUTLAND—Neal and Patricia Whitney began opening their home to high-risk girls in need of foster care about 1993. In 2008, they were named Rutland's Foster Parents of the Year. Over time, they provided a home to more than 200 children through the Vermont Department of Children and Families. In 2012, the DCF…

By Robin Alberti Killington resident Pam Aievoli gave a presentation this past Wednesday at the Summit Lodge for the Killington Rotary. Sue Skaskiw, Executive Director of Vermont Volunteer Services for Animals Humane Society (VVSA), captured the evening on video, and helped answer questions. VVSA works with law enforcement agencies throughout the state to protect the…

By Robin Alberti Evan Joaquin, a sixth grader from Killington Elementary School, is the winner of the 2016 Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program’s Growing Works of Art Contest. This year, the Growing Works of Art contest theme was Healthy Trees, Healthy Communities.  Participating students wrote three to five sentences describing the benefits they, or…

By Leonard Perry, UVM horticulturist and Charlie Nardozzi, garden consultant It’s vegetable planting time in most of the area. In valleys and warm areas plant tomatoes, peppers, beans, lettuce, squash and cucumbers at the end of May. Many gardeners like to plant around Memorial Day. In colder areas you may want to wait until early…

By Joe Rankin “Boy, he’s really red! I don’t think I’ve ever seen them that red before,” my wife said admiringly of a male purple finch crunching sunflower seeds at the feeder. He was a nice burgundy. The male goldfinches were getting yellower, but still looked scruffy. The birds made me optimistic that spring would…

In an almost forgotten wooden box are keepsakes I have saved for no apparent reason. They are an assortment of broken watches that go back to my first watch. It was a high school graduation present from my parents, purchased at the local pharmacy. A Timex, of course. There are no plans for my treasures.…

I write this on the heels of Earth Day, 2016. I have been working too much. For the first time in my life, I am really caught up in the rat race. It is difficult to separate myself from it, because my endeavor is literally to save the world one rooftop at a time, but…

Last week I wrote an NBA-related article about the league’s shift toward conference parity and, at the end of the piece, I speculated that the regression of the Western Conference was one of the reasons the Golden State Warriors were able to achieve a record-setting 73 wins. A friend, discussing the article with me, argued…

Back in the 1950s when I was a child if you wanted an ice cream soda or a sundae, you could head to one of the downtown Rutland drug stores. They had lunch counters where you could get sandwiches and ice cream treats. These stores were not part of a chain and they didn’t offer…

Courtesy of BarnArts Racers stand ready at the starting line of the annual Race Around the Lake at Silver Lake State Park. BARNARD — Both 5k and 10k options are available to racers (walkers and runners) participating in BarnArts Center for the Arts’ third annual Race Around the Lake May 22, beginning at 10:30 a.m. at…

The Page Memorial Frontier Animal Shelter in Orleans, Vt. would like to acknowledge and truly thank Claude Blais for carrying out an amazing fundraiser to benefit our shelter in memory of his beloved dog, Bullet. The fundraiser was held this April and raised $800. Thank you to all the wonderful Killington folks for supporting this…

By Maxx Steinmetz Gawet Memorial Field in West Rutland was the venue this Saturday, April 23, where Rutland Rugby Football Club played host to Upper Valley Rugby Football Club. Despite the newcomers to New England Rugby Football Union’s fourth division coming light on numbers, Upper Valley was able to score the first try of the…