The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is receiving reports from across the state of black bears seeking food in yards, outbuildings and livestock enclosures this spring, and the department urges Vermonters to take proactive steps for safely coexisting with bears. […]
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Featured, Local News
The Killington World Cup Foundation Awards over $289,000 in grants
The Killington World Cup Foundation (KWCF) awarded 31 grants totaling $289,000 to Northeast area nonprofits in eight states. KWCF also donated $160,000 to support athlete housing at the Killington Cup. These grants were made possible as a result of the […]
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Killington posts new paid fire chief position
By Curt Peterson Killington is hoping to hire a paid fire chief for the first time in the organization’s history. The salaried position was advertised in the Mountain Times on June 15 and 22. Gary Roth, who has been a […]
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Killington Search & Rescue grows, reflects on 10 years
Open house scheduled at new Public Safety Building, July 2 By Katy Savage It was 3:30 a.m. in February when Dave Coppock got a tone from Vermont State Police. A snowboarder was lost in the backcountry of Killington Resort by […]
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Police say money at center of dispute between mother and son leading to fatal shooting in Woodstock
By Alan J. Keays/VTDigger The victim in a deadly shooting outside a home in downtown Woodstock on Tuesday, June 14, was a 67-year-old New Hampshire man who had showed up to support a woman in a dispute with her adult […]
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Crossman completes 365 summits of Pico Mountain in 362 days
Yearlong effort has raised more than $17,000 to benefit Vermont kids Randy Crossman, the 63-year-old director of facilities at Castleton University and seventh-generation Vermonter, completed his 365th summit of Pico Mountain in 362 days on Saturday, June 18 to raise […]
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Killington Resort purchases 90-room Hillside Inn for employee housing
Killington Resort has purchased the Hillside Inn as a second employee housing location after renting it for the 2021-22 winter season. In 2018, Killington Resort purchased the Mendon Mountain View Lodge to begin offering housing to employees. This lodge consists […]
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Missing man found in Cavendish with canine, community help
By Katy Savage After Donald Gurney, Jr. went missing last week, hundreds of people, police rescue groups and a team of search dogs united to find him. Gurney, 65, who has Alzheimer’s, went missing around midnight Monday, June 13 on […]
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Harpoon Brewery acquires Long Trail
By Katy Savage and John McCright Mass. Bay Brewing Company, the parent company of Harpoon Brewery in Windsor, has acquired Long Trail Brewing Company, Harpoon CEO and cofounder Dan Kenary announced Friday, June 17. “As part of the agreement, we […]
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Featured Pets June 22 – 28, 2022
Sprocket 10-year-old. Male. Pit mix. White with black. Currently being treated for Lyme and Anaplas- mosis and improving each day. I can be noisy when left alone for too long. All of these pets are available for adoption at Rutland […]