By Polly Lynn KILLINGTON – “While you spent Halloween night getting dressed to kill and scarfing sweets, our snowmakers hit the hill like a ton of bricks (or 720,000 gallons of water),” the resort wrote in the “Drift” newsletter, Nov. […]
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Cushman discovers confidence in bikini fitness competition
Rutland accountant is the Overall Winner of the Granite State Open By Carrie Cushman Back in high school if you asked me if I was ever going to enter a bikini contest I would have told you you were crazy. […]
Republican Scott Milne still alive in governor’s race
By Laura Krantz, VTDigger.org Election Day at the Republican headquarters finished Tuesday with an eerie uncertainty: Well after midnight, the governor’s race was too close to call. Joyous GOP House and Senate candidates trickled out of the Sheraton Burlington Hotel […]
Shumlin campaign hits high gear
By John Flowers Gov. Peter Shumlin cited adding more jobs, property tax reform and affordable health care as his top priorities for the next biennium should he be elected to a third consecutive two-year term on Nov. 4. Shumlin, a […]
Milne appeals to voters for changes
By John Flowers As the CEO of Milne Travel, Republican Scott Milne has sent many people to exotic locations throughout the world. The North Pomfret resident is now hoping to book a destination of his own: Montpelier, where he hopes […]
Pre-K education advances in Killington
By Polly Lynn By 2015 every school district in Vermont will be required to provide 10 hours of high quality, free pre-Kindergarten each week to all 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds who have missed the cutoff for Kindergarten because of their birthdays, […]
Preston Leete Smith to be honored
KILLINGTON—On Saturday, Nov. 1, Killington founder Preston Leete Smith will be recognized for his ground-breaking contributions to the development of alpine skiing in New England and nationally at the resort he created from a trackless mountain. As the guest of […]
Vermont Senate candidates from Rutland County square off at forum
By Cristina Kumka PEGTV held a Senate Candidate Forum Oct. 2 and asked the seven candidates for Vermont Senate questions, selected by a panel of PEGTV board members and staff. The following are excerpts from that forum. There are three […]
Ebola in Vermont? Chen addresses question at Killington Confrence
KILLINGTON – Is Vermont prepared to handle the Ebola virus should it come here? Dr. Harry Chen, M.D., acting secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services, addressed that question at the 25th annual Vermont Health Care and EMS Preparedness […]
At a glance: Halloween events are plentiful in the region
Oct. 23-27: Corn maze, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Hathaway Farm, Rutland. Oct. 24: Halloween Wildlife Festival, 5 p.m. at Edward F. Kehoe Conservation Camp, Castleton. Oct. 24-25: Pittsford Haunted House, 6:30-9 p.m. on Plains Road, Pittsford. Huge and scary ! […]