By Royal Barnard RUTLAND—There are lots of energetic and creative people in our region. Many were born here and many were attracted here for the beauty, the people, and the way of life. Many more would love to be here if they had a suitable vocation. Dave Tibbs came to Rutland about 14 years ago, met his…

Demand up, inventory low, prices best in state By Karen D. Lorentz Nationally, a homebuyer is looking at higher prices and more competition this spring with greater demand from Millennials as well as lower inventories and low mortgage rates, contributing to a tight market that will price some would-be buyers out. But in Rutland County,…

By Virginia Dean After an initial delay to the Rutland community of its all-new aircraft, the Tecnam P2012 Traveller, Cape Air airline continues to work on validating policies and procedures for the new prop plane. “This is typical for a newly certified aircraft,” said Cape Air spokesperson Trish Lorino. The delay in the Tecnam’s introduction…

Staff report People from all over New England flocked to Woodstock last week to catch a glimpse of a rare South American bird. The bird, a crested caracara, which is native to Cuba, South America and Mexico, was affectionately named “Carl” on the Vermont Birding Facebook group. It’s unclear what brought the caracara so far…

Living the Dream by Merisa Sherman Megan was 4 when I took her up the K-1 Gondola for the first time. She was absolutely bursting at the seams. She wanted to show me everything that she knew, where this was, where that was. She wanted me to know that she knew what I knew about skiing and…

By Anne Wallace Allen/VTDigger Veterinarian Susan Johnson used to work with 15 large alpaca farms. Now Vermont’s down to just a few. But an Ascutney farm, Cas-Cad-Nac, is doing the alpaca business in a big way. It has 250 super-premium alpacas, half-ownership in a fiber mill, and a mail-order alpaca meat business. And this autumn, it…

Friday-Sunday, March 6-9—KILLINGTON—The Slash and Berm banked slalom returns to Killington for its seventh year this weekend. The race, which snakes through a creative and challenging course in the Stash park, will run for three days, beginning with the invite-only team event on Friday, March 6. The event benefits the Burton Chill Foundation. In the…

By Lisa Lynn/Ski+RideVt At 3:20 p.m. on Saturday, February 29, Andrew Hyrb, 36, of Darien, Connecticut, and his brother Alexander, 35, of Norwalk, Connecticut, boarded the Sensation Quad, planning to ski a backcountry zone off Stowe Mountain Resort’s Spruce Peak. More than 35 inches had fallen in the area over the last four days and everywhere skiers…

By Merisa Sherman I get off the lift and look to the left. It’s there. A bright beacon for all to see marking the new summit of Skye Peak: the Superstar Glacier. You can’t see around the mound anymore, almost getting a crick in your neck as you look upward. There are people on the side of…

Selectman and School District Board Member Jim Haff is asking Windsor Central School District voters to vote "no" on the school district budget. At Killington's Informational Meeting, Monday, March 2, he told a crowd of about 60 that the district administration presented voters with a budget with no line items this year for the first…

By Kit Norton/VTDigger Sen. Bernie Sanders will be in Vermont on Super Tuesday. As the results from primary contests in 14 states across the country roll in, Sanders will hold a rally at the Champlain Valley Exposition location in Essex Junction on the evening of March 3, his campaign announced Tuesday. Seven Days first reported on the Vermont…

Last Saturday, the Winterfest Chili Cookoff and Snow Sculpting events took place in Main Street Park in Rutland. Top honors in Chili went to Keith Farrell, while Tony Perham and  Riley Marsan won the snow sculpture contest with their lion head design. The dragon (above) by the Kelly Family took third place.

Five years ago, Karen Correll and her husband David were already on the path to make their Rutland home net zero, but they didn’t know it at the time. (Net zero is the balance between the power a home needs and the renewable energy you can generate to match the need). With new heating technology…

The organization filed an Act 250 permit to build a $2 million sports facility The Killington-based Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports is expanding. The organization filed an Act 250 permit to build a new, $2 million adaptive sports facility at Sugarbush Resort’s Mt. Ellen. The application states that Vermont Adaptive is the applicant and Sugarbush…

By Lee J. Kahrs BRANDON — The number of animals relocated from a troubled farm in Brandon has risen to 400. Police executing a warrant on Jan. 31 initially seized 125 animals on the farm owned by William M. Hegarty, 54, and cited him for animal abuse. Animal welfare officials, including Erika and Mark Gutel…