By Brett Yates Seven days a week, the Original General Store in Pittsfield serves hot breakfasts, sandwiches, soups, and pizzas. It also sells beer and wine, but not to its dine-in customers. That’ll soon change. Last Thursday, June 15, […]
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Greg Carter retires after 40 years as lift maintenance director
By Karen D. Lorentz Director of Lift Maintenance Greg Carter recently retired from a challenging and satisfying 40 years of working at Okemo Mountain. Born in Springfield, Carter had learned to ski at age 5 at Ascutney and […]
Hartland faces reappraisal
By Curt Peterson There is a lot of talk around the Three Corners Market coffee counter about the looming general reappraisal of Hartland properties and what it will mean to Hartland tax bills. Not all Vermont towns will be […]
Hartland forms safety committee after random shooting in home
By Curt Peterson For years, Hartland has been a quiet place to live, work and recreate, residents feeling relatively safe under the watchful eye of the Vermont State Police (VSP), contracted to provide a certain number of hours of […]
Additional funding allocated for Pittsfield Town Hall
By Brett Yates The Pittsfield Town Hall Building Committee shared some potentially unpleasant news with municipal officials last week: in order to complete the town’s long-standing renovation project on the historic structure that houses both the Pittsfield Select Board […]
Maclure Library receives grant from the Children’s Literacy Foundation
The Maclure Library in Pittsford has been selected to receive a Rural Library Grant for the 2023-2024 school year from the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF), a nonprofit located in Waterbury Center. Awarded annually to 12 qualifying public libraries in […]
New esthetician course comes to Killington
By Katy Savage Stafford Technical Center has a new satellite program in Killington. The tech center is renting space above Spa at the Woods on Woods Lane in Killington to offer an esthetician course for adults. The upstairs […]
State Police investigates fatal police shooting in Fair Haven
Staff report The Vermont State Police has identified the officer involved in a fatal shooting that occurred Monday evening, June 19, in Fair Haven. Police said Kenneth W. Barber Jr., 38, of Castleton, was shot and killed by Fair Haven […]
West Rutland residents meet with developers of $11.5M housing project
By Steven Jupiter/The Reporter W.RUTLAND—Residents of West Rutland met last month with representatives from the Housing Trust of Rutland County (HTRC) and their development team to discuss the affordable-housing project that HTRC is proposing for a site in that […]
Killington fire chief gives verbal resignation
By Katy Savage Fire Chief Chris LaHart verbally gave a two-week resignation on June 14 after a tumultuous start to his tenure —though Town Manager Chet Hagenbarth said the resignation is not official. “I have nothing in writing,” Hagenbarth said. […]