PROCTOR—Proctor Town Offices held an open house Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to provide residents an opportunity to tour the current town office and the former OMYA Lab Building, review drawings and cost estimates, and ask questions. The Select Board will schedule additional opportunities as needed for voters to discuss the proposal…

Library The Trustees reviewed the 2017 Library budget proposal, which will remain level with the 2015 budget, and their request for the Selectboard to place a question on the Town Meeting ballot for the town to authorize a loan of $150,000 to repair the roof of the library. Pool/pool house reconstruction The Board supported the…

RUTLAND—The Rutland Regional Planning Commission (RRPC) is developing a regional map of the public infrastructure most at risk for flood and erosion. Public infrastructure of interest includes: transfer stations, former landfill sites, water treatment facilities, town halls, and fire stations, as well as sections of road that have defined risks associated with them. These “hot…

RUTLAND — The Rotary Club of Rutland has expanded its membership options to include corporate memberships. Rutland Regional Medical Center is the first organization to participate in this program. Rotary will welcome a chief executive officer or president of a corporation as an honorary member. Attendance is voluntary, since time constraints may prevent regular attendance…

Submitted Philip Jackman On Oct. 2, the Vermont State Police received a report that a hunter had located human remains in a wooded area off Beard Road in the town of Orange, while tracking his hunting dogs. Troopers and detectives with the VSP responded to the scene and collected the remains and other items of…

Submitted Mrs. Robertson’s 4th Grade of the Mettawee Community School led a fall bulbs fund-raiser to benefit the You Are Never Alone Foundation’s Caring Blankets effort. WEST PAWLET—On Wednesday, Sept. 30, the Mettawee Community School launched its 2015-2016 Books and Beyond Program at All-School Meeting. This year’s theme, Blanket Ourselves with Words, was chosen based…

Courtesy of CCV Ellen Spensley Moriarty RUTLAND—Ellen Spensley Moriarty recently moved up in the Community College of Vermont as a career consultant in its Rutland Academic Center. She works with students and alumni in areas served by the Rutland, Bennington, and Brattleboro centers to provide personalized career guidance and resources. These support services help students…

By Robin Alberti Recently, the Sherburne United Church of Christ (the little white church) located on Route 4 near the junction with River Road hosted the last of seven fundraising suppers. Proceeds from these suppers provide most of the capital needed to keep the doors of the church open. Each year the church hosts bus…

BRIDGEWATER—On Oct. 10, at about 10:43 p.m., troopers from the Royalton Barracks responded to a residence on Route 4, in Bridgewater, Vt., for a report of a firearm discharge with injury. Investigation revealed that Colton Slivka, age 26 of Bridgewater, was babysitting two small children, aged 2 and 1 years old, when he discharged his…

HARTLAND—On Oct. 14 at 10:30 p.m. troopers from the state police Royalton barracks responded to the area at mile marker 66.4 of I-91 northbound, in the town of Hartland, for a vehicle v. pedestrian crash. Fire and rescue were dispatched to the scene. The male pedestrian, later identified as Arthur Huston, age 60, of Springfield,…

SUDBURY — On Oct. 17 at approximately 9:54 p.m., members of the Vermont State Police Rutland Barracks responded to a single vehicle crash on Route 30 at the intersection of Route 73 in the town of Sudbury. Preliminary investigation revealed that Jakob P. Mulcahy, age 20 of Forest Dale, was operating a 2006 Honda Civic south-bound…

On Tuesday, Oct. 27, the Towns of Rutland and West Rutland will host the second of several public work sessions focusing on potential improvements to the Route 4A/Business Route 4 corridor in and between the two towns. The second session will take place at 7 p.m. in the Town of Rutland Municipal Building in Center…

By Lani Duke Construction notes The Belden Company, Inc., received a $24,235 contract from the town of Castleton to build up the bank of Creek Road in Castleton just south of the Edward F. Kehoe Fishing Access; Lafayette Highway Specialities won a $4,232 contract to install 141.5 feet of guardrail along that same stretch of…

By Lani Duke Downtown economic picture is encouraging Foot traffic is up in downtown Rutland, according to the Rutland Regional Planning Commission, 73 percent higher during a week in November 2014 than it had been two years before — 8,765 compared to 5,052. Other numbers also seem promising. In July 2014, the same counting device…

POULTNEY–Green Mountain College has been recognized as a national sustainability leader in the 2015 Sustainable Campus Index, released Oct. 13 by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). GMC achieved the top spot for curriculum and air quality achievements, and the school was ranked no. 2 in the area of socially…