By Katy Savage The Killington Mountain operations team began preparing jumps and tracks for the Fox U.S. Open of Mountain Biking last year. U.S. Open co-founder and event director Clay Harper walked the mountain with Killington Resort’s team last fall, looking for ways to improve Goat Skull, the downhill mountain bike race track Harper originally…

This year's event promised to be 'bigger than ever' By Katy Savage After two years of cancellations, the Fox U.S. Open of Mountain Biking is returning to Killington for the first time since 2018. About 500 of the world’s best mountain bike athletes are expected to compete Sept. 15-18 in four events — best whip, downhill,…

By Peter D’Auria/ VTDigger Late last month, at an event for parents at Burlington’s Flynn Elementary School, a parent distributed copies of a note asking others to consider sending their children to class in masks. “Masking request: A student in your child’s classroom has an underlying health condition that may place this individual at higher…

By Curt Peterson Monday night’s Windsor Central Supervisory Union board meeting began with disgruntled and worried parents who are finding the 2022 altered school bus route and stops both challenging and frightening. David Martin and Megan Rudy, both of Woodstock, Elizabeth “Bitsy” Harley and Anna Sessa, a board member of Reading, and Amy Pomeroy of…

The Pittsford Village Farm is going to get a pavilion for outdoor activities and entertainment. In partnership with Maclure Library the Village Farm participated in The Better Places grant program, an initiative of the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development and the Vermont Community Foundation. The statewide program “empowers Vermonters to create vibrant and…

Killington Resort and official tire partner, Nokian Tyres, reintroduce Buy a pass. Plant a tree. Play Forever., an invitation to take environmental action to address the output of carbon emissions. For every season pass sold until Oct. 22, Nokian Tyres and Killington are teaming up to plant a tree. Trees will be planted to help…

The ninth annual Pie in the Face for Chase was held this past Sunday, Sept. 11 at Moguls Sports Pub in Killington, and it was the charity’s biggest success to date. Twenty-four local celebrities took hundreds of pies in the face, raising $30,000 for Chase William Kuehl and the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation (PMSF). All of…

By Curt Peterson Kerry Gawalt and Stephen Leslie, who operate Cedar Mountain Farm in Hartland, are Northeast Region finalists for the 2022 Leopold Conservation Award, the winner to be announced in a few weeks, according to a letter from the sponsor, leopoldconservationaward.org. The prize is a $10,000 grant and a crystal award. Conservation organizations that…

By Tiffany Tan/VTDigger RUTLAND CITY — One sunny morning last week, Matt Prouty was driving down Main Street when a police dispatcher’s voice came over the car’s police radio, transmitting a report of an assault at the local Walmart store. “A male and a female were in the self-checkout. They were not scanning all the items,”…

The third year of the Expeditionary School at Black River (ESBR) has seen an increased number of students, school officials report. This year’s community of students come from Ludlow, Mt. Holly, Andover, Cavendish, Charlestown (New Hampshire), and even a foreign exchange student from Germany, whose mother was an exchange student at Black River High School…

Town Meeting Day vote will ask voters if it's worth $1 By Ethan Weinstein/VTDigger This summer and beyond, residents of the town of Rochester are trying to figure out what to do with an empty high school building — four years after its last class graduated. Following the district mergers and school consolidations that resulted from…

By Mat Clouser/The Reporter During the Covid-19 pandemic, youngsters have seen the brightness of their childhoods darkened by the specter of disease, uncertainty and the real-time fissuring of a society in which many have been taught to trust implicitly. New Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union Superintendent Kristin Hubert knows this all too well but remains steadfast…

Michael Mills, the man who was shot by a Ludlow police officer on Aug. 15, 2022, has died. Mills was 36 years old at the time of his death Aug. 25 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Chief Medical Examiner’s Office performed an autopsy on Mills and determined the cause…

By Katy Savage Rutland City School Board members voted 6-4 Tuesday, Aug. 30 to once again retire the Raiders moniker following state legislation that essentially requires all schools to stop using racist mascots. The discussion on Tuesday was brief and followed an earlier ad-hoc committee meeting on Aug. 23. Karen Bossi, who suggested changing the…

Staff report Repairs and upgrades of the new Fair Haven Union Middle High School were finished just in time for school to start. The building received its certificate of occupancy on Monday, Aug. 29, just two days before the first day of school. “It was definitely tight,” said Slate Valley Unified Union School District Superintendent…