By Virginia Dean The grand opening celebration of T2B Athletics is scheduled for next Tuesday, Jan. 21 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Okemo Marketplace. The newly-located business offers personal training, weightlifting, cross training, massage and high-intensity interval training workouts. “It’s going to be low key,” said owner Brandon Durham. “It’s to show the…

By Curt Peterson The Killington Planning Commission voted  to send its short-term rental property registration and permit proposal to the Select Board for consideration. The decision came Wednesday, Jan. 8. The board proposed a system for coordinating and documenting data regarding the town’s large number of short-term rentals. According to Preston Bristow, interim zoning administrator,…

The building has been closed for two school years due to mold By Curt Peterson The Windsor Central Modified Unified Union School District (WCUSD) Board emerged from a short executive session Monday, Jan. 13, to unanimously vote to complete recommended work necessary to reopen The Prosper Valley School in Pomfret in September. The cost of…

After unseasonably warm weather with temperatures in the high 50s and rain last weekend, Killington Resort turned on the snow guns as soon as temperatures dipped on Sunday, Jan. 12. Killington Resort Marketing Manager David Young said the resort will run snow guns on Killington and Pico through the busy Martin Luther King holiday. “The…

Trees beautify our surroundings, help save energy and protect our waterways. For these reasons and others the Rutland Natural Resources Conservation District (a non- profit  organization) is offering a spring planting program. All stock is bare-root and is being offered at  a reasonable cost. It is necessary to plant bare-root trees immediately, in order to…

By Anne Galloway/VTDigger The secretary of the Agency of Human Services has balked at a request from the Brattleboro Retreat for additional monies to make up for a “reoccurring financial crisis.” In response to the state’s refusal to give the Retreat an additional $2 million in funding, the board of trustees alerted the state it…

An off-duty Vermont State Police trooper was arrested for DUI in Rutland Jan. 6. Officer Misty Klementowski of the Rutland City Police Department arrested Craig Roland for DUI on Deer Street in Rutland City around 6 a.m. A roadside breathalyzer was administered with a resulting BAC of .189 — more than twice the legal limit…

By John McCright Cows ran loose through Middlebury around noon on New Year’s Eve when the gate on the back of a truck transporting them swung open as it went through downtown. The cows wandered up Main Street from the post office and down Seymour Street where they meandered through yards and parking lots until…

Rutland Regional Medical Center welcomed its first baby born in 2020. A girl, McKinley Ann Jordan, was born at 7:07 a.m. on Jan. 2, weighing 5 pounds 7.4 ounces to parents Cheyenne Ford and Jonathan Jordan of Rutland.

The future of The Prosper Valley School in Pomfret is still undecided after more than 18 months and $100,000 in remediation work by the Windsor Central consolidated school district. A decision will be discussed at the WCUSD’s Jan. 13 board meeting in the Teagle Library in Woodstock. TPVS was closed when toxic mold and moisture…

By Curt Peterson Windsor Central Modified Unified Union School District (WCUSD) finance committee members are struggling with their fiscal year 2021 primary goal of avoiding a “penalty situation” for per-student overspending. The state set the per equalized pupil spending cap at $18,756. The final district budget will be divided by the number of equalized, non-tuitioned…

Staff report Killington Mountain School students joined athletes from the U.S. Men’s Alpine Ski Team to train on Highline Friday, Jan. 3. The athletes were in town to ski on eastern snow in preparation for a NorAm race at Burke Mountain. “They wanted to come down here because of the terrain and the steepness of…

By Katy Savage Two Pittsfield Select Board members are trying to oust the third board member. Select Board chair Charles Piso and board member Matt Corron took a vote of no confidence in Select Board member Ann Keundig at a special meeting Thursday, Jan. 2, and requested her to resign immediately. “Ann’s conduct has been…

Along with hitting the gym more often and starting a diet, quitting smoking tops many New Year’s resolution lists. There are currently 67,400 smokers in Vermont and 57% of them tried to quit last year. New ads from e-cigarette companies would have those smokers falsely believe that switching to vaping is quitting smoking. The American…

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