Goal: to demonstrate the value of libraries What happens in a single day in Vermont libraries? How many books do patrons check out? What types of activities are taking place? What types of questions are being answered? Find out by participating with the Vermont Library Association in Library Snapshot Day 2016. Snapshot Day is a…

RUTLAND — International travel increased in 2015 to more than 1.2 billion travelers. According to the World Tourism Organization, that’s 4.4 percent more than in 2014 — and the U.S. Postal Service is ready to prepare travelers for such future excursions. To make it easier to apply for a U.S. Passport, the Rutland Post Office is…

RUTLAND — Join Heritage Family Credit Union for the presentation of the proceeds of the third annual Shiver Me Shamrocks St. Patty’s 5K Fun Run & Walk on Friday, April 8 at 2 p.m. at the Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum at 11 Center Street in Rutland. The sun was shining and with the wind at their backs…

Honored as a national leader in driving employee engagement RUTLAND—Rutland Regional Medical Center has been awarded The Advisory Board Company’s 2016 Workplace Transformation Award. The annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have made a transformational change in employee engagement. “Engaging the workforce is arguably more important now than ever before, with all…

By Robin Alberti

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…

Courtesy of PEGTV The studio audience looks on during a recent taping of “Academic Showdown” in the Howe Center studio. The show airs on PEGTV channel 20 on Thursdays at 7 p.m. Proctor-Fair Haven on March 24; West Rutland-Otter Valley, March 31 RUTLAND–PEGTV’s new weekly half-hour quiz show “Academic Showdown,” featuring eight local high schools,…

Rutland City Two steps forward, one step back Although the city seemingly gains fiscal ground with every audit, two gargantuan obstacles continue to lie in the path of solvency. Both the city pension fund and the downtown parking garage-transit center are problems that present no foreseeable remedy. The pension fund is really two funds, City…

Latest Act 46 snag The new district consolidation law stands in the way of what could be a successful merger on Rutland County’s western boundary. The folks who created merger mandates failed to consider that laws permitting districts to designate schools across state boundaries must be rewritten to cover the newly formed merged districts. Pawlet,…

RUTLAND — St. Peter Parish in Rutland has entered the solar energy age, the first parish in the state Roman Catholic Diocese to install money-saving solar panels to generate electricity. St. Peter’s received a $20,000 grant from Green Mountain Power and a $6,000 contribution from Rutland-based Same Sun of Vermont Inc. which installed the panels.…