By Fred Thys/VTDigger Nine McDonald’s locations in Vermont and New Hampshire and 12 Dunkin’ locations in Vermont have been fined for violations of federal law regulating child labor. The McDonald’s franchise locations in Barre, Berlin, Rutland, Springfield, Middlebury, Randolph and Bennington, as well as one location in Claremont, New Hampshire, allowed 142 14- and 15-year-olds…

By Fred Thys/VTDigger The Vermont Marble Museum, which bills itself as the world’s largest marble exhibit, will be able to remain in its historic building in Proctor under a deal between the Preservation Trust of Vermont and ZION Growers, a hemp company. “It’s a big deal,” said Ben Doyle, president of the Preservation Trust of…

By Katy Savage Police are investigating an incident at the Killington Motel after two people were found dead of an apparent overdose on Saturday, Sept. 17 and a third person was revived with Narcan. Police said Darlene Parker, 56, of Swanton and Thomas Dodge, 53, of Montpelier, were staying in the same hotel room and…

Green Mountain Power intentionally destroyed a heavy-duty truck that was well used by a Rutland-based field electric maintenance team and replaced it with an all-electric Lion stake body truck. The Destroy-a-Truck event took place Sept 15 at GHR Recycling in Pittsford, where guests got to check out the new all-electric truck. Making the old truck…

When the Slate Valley Museum’s summer intern, program and visitor services assistant Estelle Kearns, asked about the possibility of organizing a small exhibition, Executive Director Sarah Kijowski couldn’t wait to hear her idea. Kearns is a Castleton native and recent graduate of College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she double-majored history and…

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…