KILLINGTON — Steve Finneron, chair of the Fire Department Facilities Committee, provided the Selectboard with an update on the committee’s work at the Selectboard meeting Tuesday, May 19.  He noted the Committee has met close to ten times since December. They have toured the fire station, reviewed the facilities assessment/ building feasibility study completed by…

By Lani Duke “Maker space” considered further RUTLAND — Peter and Rick Gile, a father-and-son team who do business as Two Bad Cats, LLC, are not yet ready to pick a building or solicit grant money for the “maker space” they hope to develop in Rutland. Right now they and Rutland Economic Development Corporation are…

By Lani Duke Sweet potato farm receives grant PAWLET—Laughing Child Farm of Pawlet is the recent recipient of a $20,000 Working Lands Enterprise Initiative grant. Owners Tim and Brooke Hughes-Muse plan to apply the grant to the building of a new $107,000 barn for the largest sweet potato farm in the state. The couple hopes…

Courtesy of MemorEvents Joey Roberts of Fletcher, Vt., celebrates his victory in the Modified division at Devil’s Bowl Speedway. Roberts takes Modified thriller; Masterson, Bradford, Gray take victories  WEST HAVEN – There wasn’t a full moon over Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Saturday night, May 23, but the action was as crazy as if there had…

Courtesy of RRCC First Place gross was won by the Rutland Redevelopment Authority team at the 2014 Chamber Golf Classic. Friday, May 29 — KILLINGTON — The Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce 30th Annual Golf Classic fundraiser is scheduled for Friday, May 29, at Green Mountain National Golf Course in Killington. The day will include…

Question: John and Mike are playing in a tournament. On the 6th hole, John strokes his ball into an area which might cause the ball to be lost or out of bounds. He plays a provisional ball which comes to rest short of where his original ball came to rest. He walks forward and spots his…

KILLINGTON — Thursday Night Twilight League golfers at GMNGC are earning points this year toward the first Birch Ridge Cup. Loosely based on the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup, the Birch Ridge Cup will be awarded to the player with the highest point total at the end of the summer. The grand prize is a cocktail…

Courtesy of Brady Crain Crain in 1997 at 235 pounds. “#$%@#$ *#$% God @#$*%^& stupid @#$*% East Mountain Road!” After my big run last Friday, I did a bunch of basic recovery stuff, hiking, biking, and skiing. Sunday I went for a run on Superstar. My legs betrayed me, and I crossed my tips and…

By Daris Howard I was a junior in high school when the first calculators came out, and they did little more than add, subtract, multiply, and divide. By the time I graduated from college, Hewlett Packard had advanced calculator technology a lot. The testing center at the university I was attending was given some calculators…

One amazing bonus of living year-round in Killington is experiencing the incredible juxtapositions that the mountain and valley provide. We can ski for part of the day, leave the mountain, come down to the valley and resume quiet life on the Sherburne Flats. Mother’s Day and the following Sunday offered such a choice. The crowd…

By Michael J. Caduto In the early 1960s, Euell Gibbons wrote “Stalking the Wild Asparagus” and introduced millions of North Americans to the virtues of harvesting wild foods. Since that time, gathering wild edibles has become increasingly popular, and in our region, woods-grown delicacies such as ramps and fiddlehead ferns appear in grocery stores each…

The conveniences and safety factors in today’s cars were not in effect when I was growing up back in the 1950s. A friend and I were reminiscing about car trips when we were kids. There were no seat belts and the cars I rode in did not have air conditioning. When you wanted air flow…

Have you noticed that, in national news articles, reporters increasingly tend to quote statements that emerge from the Twitter pages—rather than the actual mouths—of public figures? I’m not writing to complain about this. Twitter is a popular medium for trivial and nontrivial communication alike. Most politicians and celebrities use it. Tweets can be important; they…

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Courtesy of CSJ Peter Edens, left, and Nolan Emory, right smile in their graduation caps. RUTLAND — College of St. Joseph was honored to grant degrees to 72 graduates at the College’s 56th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 17. CSJ President Dr. Richard Lloyd conferred degrees upon the graduates. Academic Dean Dr. David Balfour led the…