By Evan Johnson RUTLAND—The Hunger Council of Rutland County describes Act 148, also known as the Universal Recycling Law, as the most significant change to Vermont’s solid waste system in recent history. The law focuses on reducing food waste, with the goal of eliminating food waste from the waste stream by 2020.  At its quarterly…

By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger Local residents met this week to go over their options under Act 46 in preparation for a June 13 revote on a school district merger with Rochester and Bethel. In April, Royalton voters overwhelmingly rejected the same proposal, but resident Laurie Smith said people were surprised to learn their vote…

By Stephen Seitz LUDLOW—On May 30 the towns of Mount Holly and Ludlow narrowly defeated an Act 46 merger proposal, which would have closed Black River High School and sent the students of those towns to the Mill River Union Unified School District in North Clarendon. The combined votes of both towns came to 636…

Saturday, June 10—SO. ROYALTON—U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will deliver the commencement remarks at two Vermont high schools in the coming weeks. Sanders will deliver the South Royalton High School commencement address on June 10 in South Royalton. Sanders will also be the commencement speaker during Champlain Valley Union High School’s graduation on June 16.…

NORTHFIELD—The Community College of Vermont (CCV) held its graduation ceremony Saturday, June 3, at Norwich University’s Shapiro Field House. More than 500 students from across the state received associate degrees at the event. Students representing all 14 Vermont counties graduated along with students from 11 other states and nine countries. The youngest graduates were 17…

ROCHESTER— Cold planing will begin this week at the intersection of Route 73 and Bingo Road. They will move this operation east, towards the intersection of Route 73 and 100. Slope stabilization along Route 73 will continue through next week. Expect alternating, one-way traffic around construction activities. Road work will take place Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to…

RUTLAND—Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum in Rutland has announced the appointment of Lorrie Byrom, Francesca Bove, Paul Gallo and Tricia Huebner to its board of directors. Lorrie Byrom is the owner-director of Camp Betsey Cox for Girls, a long-standing girls’ summer camp and family business in Pittsford. She served as an administrator/teacher at Northfield Mount Hermon School…

RUTLAND —MKF has purchased 72 Merchants Row, adjacent to the Green Mountain Power (GMP) Energy Innovation Center, and MKF and GMP plan to connect the two buildings to share amenities including conference rooms and the EIC’s rooftop terrace. MKF has also purchased parking lots at 77 Grove Street from GMP, and the adjoining building from…

Vermont resort boasts longest ski and snowboard season in Eastern North America Vermont’s Killington Resort to offer lift serviced skiing and snowboarding in June for the first time in 15 yearson Thursday, June 1, 2017. June skiing is available on Superstar, the trail that hosted November’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup slalom and giant slalom races. World…

9th anniversary tournament set for June 5 at GMNGC KILLINGTON—On Monday, June 5, Table 24 restaurant in downtown Rutland will proudly host its 9th anniversary charity golf tournament. Proceeds from this year’s event will benefit the Rutland County Humane Society. Past beneficiaries have included the Rutland County Parent Child Center, the Carly Ferro Purple Angel…

Willie Dunn’s Grille at golf club featured for summer LUDLOW—Okemo Mountain Resort welcomes Ashley Elicker as its new director of culinary services. She will oversee all aspects of the resort’s culinary operations on a year-round basis. Originally from New Canaan, Conn., Elicker graduated from Middlebury College, in Vermont. She earned her MBA from the University…

On Monday, May 15, the state police were notified by the Department of Children and Family Services that Richard E. Piper, Jr., age 62 from Pittsford, had exposed himself while in the Jacuzzi at the Holiday Inn located at 476 Holiday Drive in the town of Rutland. It was unknown if the children that were…

BRATTLEBORO—On May 24 at 4 p.m., the state police conducted a motor vehicle stop on a New York-registered vehicle on Putney Road in Brattleboro for a traffic infraction. The operator, Jalil Freitag, 28, of Wells, failed to produce a valid license and his DMV records showed a criminal suspension in Vermont, according to Trooper Max…

RUTLAND—Christopher C. Shaddock Jr. has been named the Director of Business Development for the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce. Shaddock comes with over 40 years of experience in service, sales and marketing in the health and fitness industry along with a decade of sales leadership in resort development including the Killington Grand Hotel project and…

Teacher negotiations prove unproductive Rutland City School Board President Dick Courcelle said the board recognized that negotiations with the teachers’ union were not being productive and declared an impasse at its May 23 meeting. A series of eight meetings with the Rutland Education Association that began Jan. 13 left most issues unresolved or unaddressed, according…