Rutland accountant is the Overall Winner of the Granite State Open By Carrie Cushman Back in high school if you asked me if I was ever going to enter a bikini contest I would have told you you were crazy. “What woman would intentionally show their backside to an audience?” I’d have asked. To this…

By Laura Krantz, VTDigger.org Election Day at the Republican headquarters finished Tuesday with an eerie uncertainty: Well after midnight, the governor’s race was too close to call. Joyous GOP House and Senate candidates trickled out of the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center after picking up at least eight seats in the state Legislature. It’s…

By John Flowers Gov. Peter Shumlin cited adding more jobs, property tax reform and affordable health care as his top priorities for the next biennium should he be elected to a third consecutive two-year term on Nov. 4. Shumlin, a Putney Democrat, faces opposition from Republican Scott Milne and several independent and third-party candidates. Last…

By John Flowers As the CEO of Milne Travel, Republican Scott Milne has sent many people to exotic locations throughout the world. The North Pomfret resident is now hoping to book a destination of his own: Montpelier, where he hopes to serve as Vermont’s governor. But in order to complete his trip, the state’s voters…

By Polly Lynn By 2015 every school district in Vermont will be required to provide 10 hours of high quality, free pre-Kindergarten each week to all 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds who have missed the cutoff for Kindergarten because of their birthdays, and whose families choose to enroll them. Gov. Peter Shumlin signed this legislation into law…

KILLINGTON—On Saturday, Nov. 1, Killington founder Preston Leete Smith will be recognized for his ground-breaking contributions to the development of alpine skiing in New England and nationally at the resort he created from a trackless mountain. As the guest of honor at the New England Ski Museum’s annual meeting and Spirit of Skiing Award dinner,…

By Cristina Kumka PEGTV held a Senate Candidate Forum Oct. 2 and asked the seven candidates for Vermont Senate questions, selected by a panel of PEGTV board members and staff. The following are excerpts from that forum. There are three open Senate seats from Rutland County, which these seven candidates are vying for. All incumbents…

KILLINGTON – Is Vermont prepared to handle the Ebola virus should it come here? Dr. Harry Chen, M.D., acting secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services, addressed that question at the 25th annual Vermont Health Care and EMS Preparedness Conference, held last weekend at the Grand Hotel at Killington Resort. Chen said the risk…

Oct. 23-27: Corn maze, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Hathaway Farm, Rutland. Oct. 24: Halloween Wildlife Festival, 5 p.m. at Edward F. Kehoe Conservation Camp, Castleton. Oct. 24-25: Pittsford Haunted House, 6:30-9 p.m. on Plains Road, Pittsford. Huge and scary ! Oct. 24: Wilson Castle Terrorealm, 7-10 p.m. at Wilson Castleton, Proctor. Oct. 24, 25, 31:…

Editor’s note: The Mountain Times receives many questions from readers every week about Killington Resort and Pico Mountain operations. In order to best answer some of the most common questions we have posed them directly to Mike Solimano, president and general manager for Killington Resort and Pico Mountain, who has responded here. Three questions many…

Eric Marsh and Tracy Tedesco win Fan Favorite; Brent Godnick and Sam Ho win Judges' Choice To watch the 2014 Dancing with the Rutland Stars Click Here RUTLAND — Every seat at the Paramount Theatre was taken Saturday night, Oct. 11, as seven couples performed entertaining dance routines to raise money for Kids on the Move pediatric…

Charlie Demarest stands by his recently restored water wheel at the Water Wheel Trading Post on Route 4 in Killington. The wheel was severely damaged by floods during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 causing the upper holding pond to be compromised along with the structure. Demarest has been working all summer to get the wheel…

The news came Saturday, Sept. 27— almost exactly one month after tickets first went on sale and over two weeks before the show — that Dancing with the Rutland Stars was officially sold out. It is the fastest tickets have sold out since the benefit began four years ago. “Words of thanks are hardly enough,”…

Consulting firm Gravity Logic say Killington could see 50,000 bikers annual, if the master plan is followed to completion.  “There is nowhere in the east that has the potential that Killington  has,” said Dave Kelly, co-founder of Gravity Logic, the consulting company Killington hired to design and build an improved mountain bike trail systems. “We…

KILLINGTON - The Bootcampers Against Breast Cancer 5k Run/Walk was hosted last Sunday September 28th at the Johnson Rec. Center. The event raised over $8,000 to help the fight against breast cancer. To view the full gallery please click here. Photos by Jess Gabeler