Can Shiffrin defend her Slalom title amongst the fastest women technical ski racers? By Polly Mikula This weekend, Nov. 27-28, the Women’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup returns to Killington for Giant Slalom and Slalom races. Last year, all North American FIS Alpine ski races were canceled due to the pandemic. “Returning from a pandemic-induced…

By Katy Savage A committee that’s spent four years studying the prices and concepts for a hefty renovation of the Woodstock Town Hall said last Monday, Nov. 15 that they couldn’t recommend any of their plans. They cost too much. “As a team we’re not in a position to recommend any of the plans we…

By Karen D. Lorentz As a goal-and-results-oriented major event professional with 30 years' experience, Katrina Ammer specializes in event oversight for major mountain events, including mountain biking and skiing competitions. She consults for, advises, or leads various large-scale international sports events on venue and event operations, business and community engagement, and strategy. So it’s little…

By Brooke Geery Logan Seely and her fiancé, Andy Paluch, are two busy young professionals betting on downtown Rutland. The couple closed on the space at 31-33 Center St. in May and is now in the midst of revamping it. The 4,200 square foot space has sat vacant since Sabby’s Pasta House and Sports Lounge…

By Brett Yates Boston real estate developer John Holland finally got some good news regarding his embattled plan to open a “farm-to-fork” restaurant at the former Conklin Farm on the outskirts of Woodstock. Less than a month after the Vermont Natural Resources Board’s District 3 Environmental Commission denied the project an Act 250 permit, the…

By Liz Dimarco Weinmann Welcome back, skiers! Whether this is your first visit, or you’ve visited often, you should consider the many advantages of living and working in the Rutland region — most of our towns are just a 20-minute drive from Killington! Since Covid has remade the world, residents of big cities like New…

By Brett Yates As of Nov. 22, Wolcott Meadow Road in Chittenden no longer exists. Or, at least, it’ll no longer appear on future town road maps. The Chittenden Select Board voted on Monday to decommission the Class 4 town highway, a dirt path used for snowmobiling and hiking. The surrounding privately owned land will…

By Meghan Brown On Nov. 8, National First-Generation College Celebration Day recognized first-generation students across the country. At CCV, 55% of students are the first in their family to attend college. The college prioritizes the success of these students as seen through our mission to support and challenge all students in meeting their educational goals.…

By Angelo Lynn BRANDON — To say schools across the state are stressed is an understatement. That they are in crisis is a more accurate description, and one that school officials don’t shy away from. But in doing so, it’s not to say that academic progress is not being made for a vast majority of…

By Ethan Weinstein BRANDON—About 150 people — some from hours away — weathered the cold and rain on the Brandon town green to support Paul Dame, the newly elected Vermont Republican party chair, and to protest the Biden presidency at Saturday’s “Let’s Go Brandon” rally. “Everybody here today, are you guys ready to make a…

This fall schools from around Vermont came up with names for VTrans snowplows in their local maintenance district. From creative and clever, to cute and silly, here are the new names of VTrans plows that will be serving their communities this winter. Each school will be visited by their newly-named plow on Wednesday, Nov. 17…

State answers frequently asked questions about program designed to spur development through investment in public infrastructure What is a tax increment financing district? Geographically, it is a district, created by a municipality, where public infrastructure is required to encourage private property development. Financially, incremental tax revenues generated by the private property development within the district…

Jack Walther Zuckerman, 83, of Saratoga Springs, New York, and Killington, died peacefully surrounded by his family on Nov. 12, 2021. Jack was born on May 12, 1938 to the late Josef and Henrietta Schattner Zuckerman in Vienna, Austria at a time when the world was making it very difficult to exist as a Jew.…

By Tiffany Tan/VTDigger Like many law enforcement agencies around the country, the Rutland Police Dept. has been having difficulty recruiting new police officers. Filling its 13 open positions is expected to be so challenging that Rutland Mayor David Allaire has suggested funding only half of them in the next fiscal year as a way to…

How tax incremental financing revitalized St. Albans: a model to follow By Polly Mikula St. Albans and Killington may not have a lot in common, as far as Vermont towns go. St. Albans is a city of about 7,000 (with the town of St. Albans hosting another 7,000 just outside the city boundaries) located just…