eTown Meeting offers one-stop shopping for energy FAIR HAVEN–Energy experts on efficiency, heat pumps, weatherization and solar are joining forces at the Fair Haven Town Hall to offer local residents instant energy advice, special offers and same-day home visits to save people money and reduce environmental impacts right away. Through the first ever eTown Meeting,…

CASTLETON—The Rutland Region Workforce Investment Board’s Council on Youth is working with the middle school counselors of Castleton Village, Fair Haven, Mill River, Orwell, Benson, West Rutland, Christ the King, Proctor and Rutland Town School to organize the sixth annual Your Journey Starts Here event. The seventh-grade career event will be held March 31, 2016,…

RUTLAND—The University of Vermont is collaborating with Cornell University, NOFA-VT, and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) of the UVM Extension on research that examines whether low-income participation in a subsidized community supported agriculture (CSA) program, along with tailored nutrition education, can improve the quality of diet for low-income children, who are at…

By Rebecca Reimers The small group of students arrived at Rutland Middle School’s technology lab right after school ended one recent Wednesday, logged onto their computers, and began working on their projects before the school’s technology teacher, Jack Adams, returned to the tech lab from his last class. These students knew what they were working…

By Lani Dukes Contemplating Life Café holds official open house FAIR HAVEN—Michael Mancino has opened the Contemplating Life Café in the former Carvey’s restaurant of Fair Haven. Though it first opened Feb. 13, it held its grand opening over Easter weekend. Rita Carvey is the star of Mancino’s new business venture, whose chicken and biscuits…

By Lani Dukes RUTLAND CITY Jack Russell terrier theft not part of fighting ring, police say Rutland City police are noncommittal about the theft of service dog Daphni and her subsequent death. Taken from her owner’s Center Street apartment March 11, the three-year-old Jack Russell terrier was found dead near White Park, suffering from bite…

Students learn the full process of sugaring at Killington By Robin Alberti KILLINGTON — Every year the fourth graders at Killington Elementary school get to experience an important part of our state’s history, culture and economy: maple sugaring.  The school is equipped with a sugar shack and evaporator to boil sap into syrup. All the…

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Photos Courtesy of Robin Alberti By Clara J. Shortle Sugaring in the fourth grade is a lot of work, but it is also lots of fun. I know this because I am one of these fourth graders at Killington Elementary School. The process is complicated, but I will try to explain it in the words…

Killington’s annual Bachelor Auction Sunday, March 20, raised over $12,000 for Vermont Adaptive, according to The Foundry’s preliminary estimate for the night. The dozen bachelors each came with prize packages ranging in value from $350-$1,200. Most winning bids were well over their stated value.

CCV student from Shrewsbury selected for NASA program RUTLAND—Community College of Vermont’s Dale Kenyon, a non-traditional female student, will travel to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., in May to participate in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars project (NCAS). Kenyon, of Shrewsbury, will be one of 216 community college students from across the…

By Michael Bielawski, Vermont Watchdog Representatives and concerned citizens gathered at the State House on Thursday, March 17, to study the continued impact of Act 46 on school choice in Vermont. The legislation was pitched last year largely on the notion that Vermont’s school choice would be left undisturbed. However, as non-operating choice districts begin…

By Anne Galloway, VTDigger.org State revenues were up by a whopping $16.34 million in February, despite sagging ski resort attendance due to unseasonably warm weather. Justin Johnson, the secretary of the Agency of Administration, said personal income was higher last month because of lower than anticipated income tax refunds “due to concerns over taxpayer fraud.”…

By Polly Lynn RUTLAND — After 21 years as CEO of the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donahue (a.k.a. “Mr. Rutland”) will leave to become the new CEO of BROC – Community Action in Southwestern Vermont. Donahue made the announcement Thursday, March 17, after informing the Chamber board of directors on Wednesday that he…