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Great Benson Fishing Derby celebrates 44 years

March 2, 2016
Courtesy Paul Hatin-Smart Media Pictured (l-r):  David Calvi, co-chair of the Great Benson Fishing Derby and a Fair Haven Rotary Club member; Bill Stephenson, president of the Fair Haven Rotary Club; and Jeff Larson, co-chair of Great Benson Fishing Derby and a Fair Haven Rotary Club member. Since 1973 the Fair Haven Rotary Club has…

CSJ weekly athletics roundup

March 2, 2016
RUTLAND — The College of St. Joseph Fighting Saints baseball team played in the Builder Invitational this past weekend, Feb. 27-28, hosted by the Apprentice School in Newport News, VA. CSJ went 1-5 over the weekend against top-notch competition. They lost two games by just one run each and showed signs of some really solid…

Downhill for Diabetes ski event brings KMS together

March 2, 2016
Killington Mountain School Alpine athlete Marc Hartnett, was diagnosed this year with type 1 diabetes. It didn’t take long for Marc to come to terms with his diagnosis and to make the necessary lifestyle adjustments to accommodate this lifelong condition. After learning about Marc’s diabetes, teammate Crawford Jones mentioned the annual Downhill for Diabetes event…

KMS Winter auction celebrates World Cup 2016

March 2, 2016
The Killington Mountain School and Killington Ski Club community came together on Saturday, Feb. 20, for the annual Winter Auction celebration. This year’s theme was World Cup Carnival, in honor of the women’s World Cup races coming to Killington next November for Thanksgiving weekend 2016. “The theme of this year’s auction is celebrating the World…

UVM team working on technique to help skiers find ultimate skis

March 2, 2016
Undergraduate engineering students at the University of Vermont have teamed up with a professor to find a technique that could help performance skiers select the ultimate pair of skis. It all started last fall, when UVM senior Elli Terwiel was in professor Eric Hernandez’s course, Advanced Structural Analysis, learning about how beams bend under a…

World Cup Wednesday Ski Bum Race Series: Feb. 17 week # 9

March 2, 2016
Cumulative team standings after week # 8 1. Clock 1 = 1,042 2. RAMROD = 1,030 3. Clock 2 = 994 4. Here We Go = 980 5. Gorillas In The Mist = 963 SNOWBOARD - A Women: 1. Heather House, Gorillas In The Mist. Time: 34.37 2. Pam McNeill, Sweet Peaks. Time: 34.64 3.…

Twigs and Thistle, a thrift boutique, opens in Chester

March 2, 2016
By Donald Dill Marji Graf, CEO of the Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce, welcomes Genevieve Johnson of Twigs and Thistle, a thrift boutique in Chester, to the Chamber. CHESTER — Twigs and Thistle, a thrift boutique featuring gently used clothing, opened Feb. 13 at 287 Main Street in Chester. Genevieve Johnson is the new owner.…

Meteorologist visits Mettawee

March 2, 2016
Courtesy of Linda Maness Local 22 and 44’s Chief Meteorologist Sean Parker visited the Mettawee Community School on Tuesday, Feb. 23. He was greeted by MCS Principal Brooke DeBonis and school administrative assistants Cheryl Chalmers and Sue King (pictured l-r). Parker gave presentations to students in grades K-6. WEST PAWLET — Earlier this winter Mettawee Community…

RRMC names two 2016 Providers of the Year

March 2, 2016
Honored for dedication to patients, clinical excellence and volunteer work RUTLAND – Rutland Regional Medical Center announced Feb. 25 that critical care physician Harvey S. Reich, M.D., FACP, FCCP, has been named the hospital’s 2016 Physician of the Year, and Laura M. Cohen, ACNP, ANP-BC, has been named its inaugural Advanced Practitioner of the Year.…

Rutland Region News Briefs

March 2, 2016
Rutland City Frozen ground, wet neighborhoods A leaking line connected to a fire hydrant on North Street Extension brought out the City Public Works Department the morning of February 23. Northbound traffic squeezed into a single lane while crews salted the road and chipped ice away. Although solving the problem sounded simple—“Turn a valve; clean…

Lakes Region News Briefs

March 2, 2016
POULTNEY GMC woos VYCC, returned Peace Corps volunteers Green Mountain College recently announced its offer of discounted Green Mountain tuition for Vermont Youth Conservation Corps volunteers. The school has also announced the new Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program to provide scholarships for returned Peace Corps volunteers taking the school’s M.S. in Environmental Studies program. Poultney…

RNRCD awarded $82,500 grant for stormwater reduction in the East Creek Watershed

March 2, 2016
RUTLAND — On Feb. 29 the Rutland Natural Resources Conservation District (RNRCD) announced that it was awarded a Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VTDEC), Ecosystem Restoration Program Grant ($82,500) to hire an Engineering Contractor to prepare a design for a stormwater swirl separator and install it at the outfall of an existing 36-inch drainage pipe,…

Super Tuesday: Sanders looks past loss in South Carolina, looks toward a dozen Primary votes on March 1

March 2, 2016
By Kevin O’Connor, VTDigger.org The New York Times calls it “the paradox for reporters covering the Democratic presidential race.” On one hand, there’s “Mr. Sanders’ dim view of the ‘corporate media,’ as he refers to it,” Times reporter Jason Horowitz noted in a recent story. Sanders frequently says, “The corporate media talks about all kinds…

WCW Ski Bum Race 2.17 Photos

February 29, 2016
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Horoscopes for February 17 – February 23, 2016

February 25, 2016
Cal Garrison (a.k.a Mother of the Skye) writes weekly horoscopes for The Mountain Times. If you would like an emailed notification sent to you weekly, sign up for the newsletter, below. Want to hear more from Mother of the Skye? Check out Mother's Celestial Inspirations     Horoscopes for February 17 - February 23, 2016…