By Curt Peterson Around 262 members of the Windsor Central Supervisory Union (WCSU) community responded to a survey designed to seek opinions about changing the district’s name. The survey was distributed through all the local listservs in the district. Current […]
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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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Killington Softball League season opener recap
By DJ Dave Hoffenberg, commissioner Finally softball has come back to Killington. Games are underway and will be played at the Ada Hall Softball Field behind the Sherburne Library on River Road in Killington every Monday and Wednesday 5:50 and […]
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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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Rutland residents celebrate pride month
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 […]
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Poultney adopts new branding
The Poultney Select Board recently adopted new branding developed by a working group of community volunteers and the content lab at Castleton University. The new brand includes official typefaces, a logo, a color palette, and a new town slogan: “Heart […]
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Town of Killington to to review draft of Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
Residents are encouraged to attend the June 15, comment on the plan The town of Killington is in the process of updating its Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP). The town secured a grant from the State and has retained Rutland Regional […]
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Lothrop Elementary locks down after threat, deemed ‘proactive response’
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 […]
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25 years in, a look at Vermont’s oldest regional conservation partnership
By Ethan Weinstein/VTDigger BRIDGEWATER — At the corners of Barnard, Bridgewater, Killington and Stockbridge rises a hundred square miles of rugged, rocky land. Twenty-five years ago, the four towns banded together, working alongside conservation-minded nonprofits, to form the Chateauguay No Town […]
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Andrew Pearce Bowls celebrates 10 years
Andrew Pearce Bowls of Hartland is celebrating its 10 anniversary this month as a Vermont owned business known and respected world-wide for its unique craftsmanship and design of wooden bowls and wood cutting boards. “This is a milestone that I […]