By Karen D. Lorentz It’s not every day that one meets a woman working in a “non-traditional” job at a ski area. But Halley Riley-Elliott is not only comfortable in the work clothes of a mechanic fixing machines, she’s also at home in make-up and gowns competing in beauty pageants. And she loves doing both!…

First Stop Board Barn in Killington has been granted the 2021 Bicycle Retailer Excellence Award by the National Bicycle Dealers Association (NBDA). The National Bicycle Dealers Association is a non-profit organization established in 1946 which promotes the interests of cycling and specialty bicycle retail across North America. The NBDA has certified First Stop Board Barn…

By Katy Savage About 20 people attended an Act 250 prehearing conference at the Killington Public Safety Building April 29 for a 104-unit residential housing development at Bear Mountain, called Base Camp at Bear Mountain. If approved, the development will be the first true ski on-ski off housing units at Killington Resort, according to the…

Staff report The Mountain Times won five awards for excellence in journalism, marketing, design and multimedia storytelling at the New England Better Newspaper Competition, which took place April 29-30, in Boston. The Mountain Times competes in the largest class of weekly newspaper (those with circulations over 5,000/week) making the competition very steep. For journalism, the…

Inaccurate data reduced ranking from No. 3 to No. 30 in the past two year By Curt Peterson U. S. News and World Report magazine is well-known for its annual ratings of colleges and high schools. Windsor Central Unified Union School District (WCSU) enjoyed Woodstock Union’s 2020 No. 3 ranking among 56 Vermont schools as…

By Katy Savage Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum is moving from Center Street in Rutland to Green Mountain Power’s Energy Innovation Center on Merchants Row, tripling the size of the museum to 9,000 square feet and expanding programming. “We’ve been in the building we’re currently in for seven years,” Wonderfeet Executive Director Danielle Munroe said. “We truly…

By Curt Peterson Killington Recreation Director Sarah Newell described her department’s “growing pains” to the Select Board at its April 25 meeting. She’s asked for an additional $22,500 in her town budget for FY2023 to fund a full time recreation program coordinator position. Newell told the Mountain Times she expects new programs that the coordinator…

By Brooke Geery On Thursday and Friday, April 21 and 22, all current employees of Killington Resort were invited to pull up to the gas pumps outside the vehicle maintenance building, where various members of the Resort Leadership Team (RLT) — from Pico and Summer Operations Manager Rich McCoy to Director of Marketing & Sales…

Killington’s Play Forever fund grants a $40,000 donation, employees participate in programming On Tuesday, April 26, Killington Resort announced its partnership with Come Alive Outside through a $40,000 donation and employee participation in their programs. “We are beyond thrilled that Killington has joined Come Alive Outside as a presenting sponsor of Come Alive Outside’s Outdoor…

By Katy Savage About 50 people attended a public meeting at the Paramount Theatre Monday April 25 to discuss a redesign of Center Street in Rutland. Consultants Dubois & King, Inc. presented three options —making Center Street a pedestrian-only street, making it open to one-lane traffic or keeping it as a two-lane street with design…

Douglas Hugh McKenna Jr. passed away on April 2, 2022 in White River Junction, Vermont.  Douglas was born on May 10, 1955 in Wilmington, Delaware and was the son of Douglas and Virginia McKenna.  His father was an executive at DuPont de Nemours and he relocated his family to Geneva, Switzerland in 1963. Douglas Jr.…

Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission (TRORC) and Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) have been working together to support the design and implementation of two river restoration projects along Pinney Hollow Brook in Plymouth. In December of 2021 TRORC was awarded a Vermont Emergency Management (VEM) Flood Resilient Communities Fund Grant to implement floodplain restoration for two areas…

By Katy Savage The chair of the Woodstock Planning Commission resigned on Friday, April 22 in the midst of a discussion about an amendment to the town’s zoning regulations to allow on-farm restaurants in residential areas. Sally Miller, who had been chair of the Planning Commission for 23 years, said recent public hearings have been…

By Brett Yates In January, Covid-19’s infectious omicron variant prompted the Pittsfield Select Board to postpone the annual town meeting. It will finally take place on May 3 at 6 p.m. at the Town Hall, where residents will transact business from the floor. Pittsfield voters will consider 10 articles. For the first time, they will…

Two Star Wars-themed Jedi Trails events planned Saturday and Sunday in Poultney and Rutland By Victoria Gaither This year, Come Alive Outside, along with partners Partners for Prevention, Slate Valley Trails, and Pine Hill Park, are joining forces to connect Star Wars fans to outdoor recreation. In celebration of all things Star Wars, fans of…