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 of 39 rooms, a full kitchen, a lounge and community space. Due to the increased…

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 Gurney Road in Springfield. Vermont State Police said his truck was left on the side…

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 will continue to operate the Long Trail Riverside Pub in Bridgewater Corners, but will begin…

By Victoria Gaither June is pride month when LGBTQIA2S, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and two spirits community celebrate being themselves. The significance of June is to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, which lead to a tipping point in the Gay Rights movement in America. For Rutland resident Karly Haven, the…

Staff report Lothrop Elementary School in Pittsford went into lockdown on Thursday, June 9 after a threat of violence. Police said a man walked into a Rutland health facility Thursday morning and made a number of threatening statements. Some of the comments made referred to the school shooting in Texas and his desire to carry…

By Katy Savage The construction of a proposed hut on Silver Lake in Leicester has drawn unexpected controversy from the public. A number of residents attended a public information meeting on Wednesday, June 8. One described the lake as an “oasis of solitude” and many had concerns about development. Don Brush, a neighbor to the…

June 17-19 —QUECHEE — The Quechee Hot Air Balloon Craft and Music Festival, the longest running hot air balloon festival in New England, will celebrate its 42nd anniversary, when thousands are expected to flock to central Vermont, June 17-19, 2022 (Father’s Day weekend). Twenty balloonists headline the event with five flights slated throughout the weekend…

Vermont State Police said Jay Wilson, the suspect in a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon at 13 Slayton Terrace, was located late Tuesday night, June 14, deceased inside the house. Precautionary measures that had been in place for residents of the area have been lifted. Members of the Vermont State Police Tactical Services Unit discovered Wilson’s…

By Victoria Gaither The NAACP Rutland Area Branch is hosting a second Juneteeth hair clinic for the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community this year after the first hair clinic last year was a success. “We provided hair braiding services last year for the children. Altogether, we helped at least 25 children in…

By Curt Peterson Jennifer Mayfield, 29, is one of six athletes representing the Vermont Special Olympics at the USA Games in Orlando this week. The state delegation includes one other golfer, two track athletes and two swimmers. Fourteen support people accompany the athletes. Mayfield’s father Brett Mayfield will serve as her caddy. A total of…

By Katy Savage Killington’s first-quarter option tax was the largest in the town’s recorded history. A total of $286,625 was collected from January to March, which is above the budgeted $215,600. “We’ve had people tell us they’ve never written checks that big for the sales tax,” Killington Town Manager Chet Hagenbarth said. “They’re just that…

By Katy Savage A zoning permit request to sell firearms next to Rutland Northeast Primary School was rescinded on June 6 after backlash from residents. A temporary permit was granted on May 24, which would have allowed applicant Eric Fletcher to sell firearms on Temple Street, about .1 mile or a 3-minute walk from Rutland…

By Katy Savage Castleton University students at the School of Resort Management spent 10 weeks developing a product and a business plan to ask for an investment offer. The 12-week course is modeled after the reality television program, "Shark Tank." It teaches students how to write a business plan that is solid enough “to be…

By Polly Mikula On Thursday, May 26, the town of Killington presented a revised Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district to the Vermont Economic Progress Council (VEPC) after changes were made to its first proposal, presented in March. A final determination on the town’s application for a Master TIF District is expected at the next VEPC…

By Merisa Sherman It started way back in 1994, when a young man chose to drive up for a few weekends at Killington over the course of the winter season. An environmental economics major, he started recording his observations of the day — what the weather was like, how the conditions were, who he might…