By Curt Peterson For years, Hartland has been a quiet place to live, work and recreate, residents feeling relatively safe under the watchful eye of the Vermont State Police (VSP), contracted to provide a certain number of hours of patrol coverage, and to respond to calls from townspeople for help. Now the Select Board…

  By Brett Yates The Pittsfield Town Hall Building Committee shared some potentially unpleasant news with municipal officials last week: in order to complete the town’s long-standing renovation project on the historic structure that houses both the Pittsfield Select Board and the Pittsfield Historical Society, the committee would need more money. Over the course of…

  The Maclure Library in Pittsford  has been selected to receive a Rural Library Grant for the 2023-2024 school year from the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF), a nonprofit located in Waterbury Center.  Awarded annually to 12 qualifying public libraries in Vermont and New Hampshire, the Rural Library Grant is designed to help small-town libraries create…

  By Katy Savage Stafford Technical Center has a new satellite program in Killington.   The tech center is renting space above Spa at the Woods on Woods Lane in Killington to offer an esthetician course for adults.  The upstairs has been transformed to a classroom to offer training on  nails,cosmetology, facials and eventually massage. …

Staff report The Vermont State Police has identified the officer involved in a fatal shooting that occurred Monday evening, June 19, in Fair Haven. Police said Kenneth W. Barber Jr., 38, of Castleton, was shot and killed by Fair Haven Police Detective Shaun Hewitt around 7:40 p.m. on Monday night on Washington Street. Maj. Dan…

  By Steven Jupiter/The Reporter W.RUTLAND—Residents of West Rutland met last month with representatives from the Housing Trust of Rutland County (HTRC) and their development team to discuss the affordable-housing project that HTRC is proposing for a site in that community.  The conference room at West Rutland Town Hall was at capacity, as dozens of…

By Katy Savage Fire Chief Chris LaHart verbally gave a two-week resignation on June 14 after a tumultuous start to his tenure —though Town Manager Chet Hagenbarth said the resignation is not official.  “I have nothing in writing,” Hagenbarth said. “I’m not going to speculate.”  LaHart did not immediately return a phone call on June…

Aldona “Dawn” Pauline Krantz, age 94, passed away on June 3, 2023.  She was born the younger daughter on Nov. 20, 1928 in Newark, New Jersey to Joseph and Pauline Skema.  Krantz met her future husband, George “Ken” Krantz at the age of 15 at a NYF church-sponsored coffee house for youth. She graduated from…

The Rutland Area Robotics’ FRC Team 2370- IBOTS, based at the Stafford Technical Center, traveled to a prestigious offseason event at Worcester Polytechnic Institute June 3-4,called BattleCry @ WPI ‘23. The event was attended by 64 teams from all over the Northeast, including some from as far away as Pennsylvania and Ohio. The competition was…

“The Funny Moon: A Novel” by East Thetford resident and Middlebury College alumnus Chris Lincoln is available July 11.  For fans of Elinor Lipman and Jennifer Weiner, “The Funny Moon” is a literary romp about the challenges of marriage, self-discovery, and personal fulfillment with a New Age twist.  Set in a small New England college…

  By John Flowers, Addison Independent RIPTON — Salisbury’s Chip Piper successfully completed the almost unimaginable feat of running 135 miles — five consecutive marathons in five days — in the Infinitus race at Ripton’s Silver Towers camp, held May 23-27. But most importantly, his effort yielded pledges totaling approximately $30,000 that will be divided…

  The Fair Haven Free Library is taking part in this summer’s Good Citizen Challenge.  This challenge asks students to learn about their communities — and current events — and find ways to lend a hand. When students complete the challenge, they have a chance to win a $100 gift card to Phoenix Books and…

  By Curt Peterson Monday, June 12, will go down in Hartland history as a momentous occasion, as Nott’s Excavating, winner of the project bid, started unloading a considerable armada of heavy equipment for reconfiguring the intersection of Quechee Road and state Routes 5 and 12. It took a decade to get to this point.…

  By Tiffany Tan/VTDigger Dozens of social service providers that can help homeless people are gathering at the fairgrounds in Rutland city this week as the state continues to wind down its pandemic-era emergency housing program. Around 25 organizations have signed up to participate in the events Wednesday and Thursday, June 14-15, organized by the Rutland…

  By Peter D’Auria/VTDigger One morning this winter at the Expeditionary School at Black River, 10th grader Zach Taylor was trying to solve a computer problem. Ahead of an upcoming open house for parents at the Ludlow school, students in a physical science course were programming small beeping computers called Arduinos to perform simple functions. Taylor,…