The Vermont Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit (MFRAU) announced a settlement with Our House Residential Care Homes in Rutland on Aug. 31. It is alleged that Our House, operator of four residential care homes, failed to properly […]
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Arts, Dining & Entertainment, Featured
Pie local celebrities in the face, Sunday
Annual benefit raises money for local family and Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation Sunday, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m.—KILLINGTON—Head to Moguls Sports Pub this Sunday, Sept. 11 from 1-6 p.m. for the ninth annual Pie in the Face for Chase charity benefit. […]
Featured, Local News
The making of Vermont’s largest whoopie pie
Staff report Rutland has set a new state record and it’s a sweet one! At the first annual Whoopie Pie Festival was held Saturday, Aug. 27 on Center Street downtown, Dream Maker Bakers of Killington set the Vermont state record […]
Featured, Killington, Local News, Real Estate/Rentals
Killington increases short-term rental permit fees
By Curt Peterson According to Killington Select Board member Jim Haff, there are more than 600 short-term rental properties (STRs) in Killington. Many of those owners have recently spoken out against the town’s proposal to increase fees for registering the […]
Featured, State News
Vermont students call on schools, lawmakers to combat racial inequities
By Peter D’Auria/VTDigger Vermont students are urging state officials and educators to make a series of sweeping reforms to combat longstanding racial inequities in the state. A new report, written by the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network, a group of students […]
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NAACP sounds alarm on sale of racist items at Rutland fairgrounds
By Katy Savage The Rutland NAACP is asking for change after what appeared to be antique slavery shackles offered by a vendor at a gun show on the Vermont State Fairgrounds Aug. 13-14. The Rutland NAACP sent a letter to […]
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State fair sets new attendance record
Staff report The Vermont State Fair in Rutland broke an attendance record for the second year in a row. Fair President Robert Congdon, Jr. said there was about a 10% jump in attendance from last year’s historic high, when an […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment, Featured
What’s more whimsically fun than a whoopie pie?
Celebrate in downtown Rutland Saturday with a street party, Parade of Heros, concert and fireworks Staff report The whoopie pie — alternatively called a black moon, gob (term indigenous to the Pittsburgh region), black-and-white, bob, or “BFO” for Big Fat […]
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Woodstock aims to house local workers with subsidies to landlords
By Fred Thys/ VTDigger Woodstock is adopting a novel approach to provide housing for people who work there. “You can get a job here, but then there’s nowhere to live,” said Trena Tolliver, who has been hired as Woodstock’s housing […]
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Man suffers life-threatening injuries after being shot by police in Ludlow
By Alan J. Keays/VTDigger Vermont State Police are investigating after a Ludlow police officer shot a man who was then taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to a state police press release Aug. 16. The wounded man, whom police […]