By Katy Savage Rutland filmmaker David Giancola has produced 25 features since the early 1990s. He was determined to try something different with his latest—a sci-fi movie called “Axcellerator.” “Axcellerator” is the first digital movie his company, Edgewood Productions, has made. He swapped his film cameras for high definition digital camera and 48 terabyte hard…

By Julia Purdy RUTLAND—Sixty years ago Rutland’s downtown bustled with activity. Its tall, late 19th century office blocks hummed with offices, and businessmen, shoppers and salesmen thronged its sidewalks. Rutland’s downtown furnished daily needs from housewares to hardware, shoes to dry goods, cameras to clothing, groceries to jewelry. Warehouses, hotels and a big rail passenger…

By Curt Peterson Woodstock Chief of Police Robbie Blish gave Corporal Mark Donka a Life Saving Award for rescuing a young New Hampshire man Dec. 7 from atop the new fence meant to dissuade would-be suicides at the Quechee Gorge bridge. Blish announced the award in his report to the Woodstock Village Trustees at their…

Mill River Union High School senior, Samuel J. Groom III received three Congressional nominations from Senator Leahy, Senator Sanders and Representative Welch to the Unites States Navy Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The nomination ceremony was held at the Vermont State House on Dec. 29, to honor the 17 students selected from Vermont high schools who…

By Katy Savage The Killington Zoning Board of Adjustment determined Thursday, Jan. 17 that a vacation home is a commercial facility. The board voted unanimously to uphold Zoning Administrator Dick Horner’s decision that a homeowner should have obtained a permit for a commercial facility when he started renting his single family dwelling unit through the…

By Katy Savage Locals know that there is no cell phone coverage in South Woodstock. They know cell phone coverage drops in and out on Route 100 and Route 4. Now, the state has data proving that Vermont’s cell phone coverage is spotty. The Vermont Public Service Department conducted a road test over two months…

POWDR and Danny Davis, Peace Park founder, X Games gold medalist, Grand Prix winner, Dew Tour champion, and U.S. Snowboard olympian, announced Jan. 22 that they have partnered to launch Woodward Peace Park in Killington next month. The partnership brings Woodward, a playground for progressive sports experiences and part of the POWDR portfolio, together with Peace Park (founded by…

By Katy Savage Gov. Phil Scott highlighted the education and the economy in his 32-minute state address, Thursday,  Jan. 10. Coming off a contentious year, where the session extended a month while Legislators debated a tax increase, and in the midst of a national government shutdown, Scott talked about the importance of politicians working together.…

Submitted Bengy Adler is the owner of Skinny Pancake, opening its tenth location in Quechee, in February.

By Erica Allen Studio This home in Killington received the peer choice award for its unique architecture at the annual AIA Vermont ceremony Dec. 13. The home was designed by BirdseyeVT, an architecture firm in Richmond. Vermont.

By Dirk Van Susteren A sampling of the empty beer bottles, some considered artifacts, on display at Harpoon Brewery’s Tap and Beer Garden in Windsor. At center, is a bottle of Catamount from Vermont’s first craft-beer brewery that opened in 1987 in White River Junction.

By Polly Mikula Towns across the state are putting final touches on their budgets and articles in preparation for the Town Meeting Day vote, March 5. In Killington, the town is bracing for what is likely going to be a fairly significant municipal tax rate increase, due to retiring past debts (left over from Tropical…

By Katy Savage KILLINGTON— The Select Board’s consideration to borrow $14 million next year to pay for future costs over a 10-year period has been thwarted. Town Manager Chet Hagenbarth told the board Tuesday, Jan. 8, that the town can’t borrow the large sum of money up front because the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank requires…

By Katy Savage RUTLAND— The site earmarked for Rutland’s first Starbucks has hit a snag. Alrig-USA, a Michigan-based developer that was granted permits to build a Starbucks in September, withdrew its application two months later, when the site was sold to a new developer, according to Zoning Administrator Tara Kelly. Ocean Gate Realty Advisors purchased…

Jerry Laurence Hickory, 71, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, at the Veteran’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida. Hickory was born in Bethel. He was born to Phyllis Howard Hickory and Harold Hickory on Sept.5, 1947.  He grew up in Bridgewater and graduated from Woodstock Union High School.  Jerry Hickory and his family moved to Tampa, Florida,…