Killington Mountain School Alpine athlete Marc Hartnett, was diagnosed this year with type 1 diabetes. It didn’t take long for Marc to come to terms with his diagnosis and to make the necessary lifestyle adjustments to accommodate this lifelong condition. After learning about Marc’s diabetes, teammate Crawford Jones mentioned the annual Downhill for Diabetes event…

The Killington Mountain School and Killington Ski Club community came together on Saturday, Feb. 20, for the annual Winter Auction celebration. This year’s theme was World Cup Carnival, in honor of the women’s World Cup races coming to Killington next November for Thanksgiving weekend 2016. “The theme of this year’s auction is celebrating the World…

Undergraduate engineering students at the University of Vermont have teamed up with a professor to find a technique that could help performance skiers select the ultimate pair of skis. It all started last fall, when UVM senior Elli Terwiel was in professor Eric Hernandez’s course, Advanced Structural Analysis, learning about how beams bend under a…

Cumulative team standings after week # 8 1. Clock 1 = 1,042 2. RAMROD = 1,030 3. Clock 2 = 994 4. Here We Go = 980 5. Gorillas In The Mist = 963 SNOWBOARD - A Women: 1. Heather House, Gorillas In The Mist. Time: 34.37 2. Pam McNeill, Sweet Peaks. Time: 34.64 3.…

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Courtesy of Vermont Fish & Wildlife Montanah Latulippe of Winooski with her state record cisco she caught while fishing on Lake Champlain in 2015. Brian Latulippe and Montanah Latulippe both land record fish RUTLAND—The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department has certified four new all-time state record fish, all caught in 2015, according to a Feb.…

Submitted Monica Schmelzenbach RUTLAND–Mount Saint Joseph Academy Senior Monica Schmelzenbach is the second female student-athlete at MSJ ever to score 1,000 points in basketball, after the legendary Kim Levins (MSJ ’87). She scored her 1,000th point during MSJ’s 60-24 win over Woodstock on Wednesday night, Feb. 17. She made the basket that put her in…

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By Kim Peters Hunter Cameron, placed second in the J.V. State Championship meet. By Kim Peters RUTLAND — This past weekend, Feb. 20-21, wrestlers represented Rutland High School well at the J.V. State meet.  Hunter Cameron, a freshman at RHS, weight class 145 pounds, won his first two matches beating a wrestler he had lost to…

KILLINGTON — Being held over the weekend of Feb. 27 - 28, Killington’s Slash and Berm is a two-day benefit banked slalom event held at Killington’s Stash Park to bring the East Coast snowboarding community together. Snowboarders will gather at Killington’s “The Stash” terrain park to take advantage of the natural terrain and all the creative…

KILLINGTON — No, it’s not this winter’s ski season; it’s the winter swim season! The competitive Killington Aquatic Club Winter Swim season was good!  This past weekend, Feb. 20-21, Killington Aquatic Club swimmers Heidi Alf, Justine Peters, Nova Wang, Sophia Nisimblat, and Ethan Courcelle competed in a qualifying time meet in Andover, Mass. The meet saw…

By Karen D. Lorentz Ski areas in central Vermont have long been at the forefront of ski industry innovation and technology, from pioneering ski lifts to making snow. From building the nation’s first rope tow in Woodstock in 1934 to installing the first T-Bar at Pico in 1940, to the world’s first four-passenger gondola at…

Submitted Killington Aquatic Club swimmer Mattie Lou Peters, age 11, set her personal best times in all her events last weekend. By Kim Peters, coach of the Killington Aquatic Club KILLINGTON — As a competitive swim coach, I often get one of two questions in February: “Coach, when do we start our taper?” or “What…

Courtesy of Kim Peters RHS ninth grader Casey Coughlin wins a match. By Kim Peters Rutland High School freshman wrestlers, Mark Napolitano, Jr., Casey Coughlin and Hunter Cameron, will participate in the JV State Tournament at Spaulding High School this upcoming Saturday, Feb. 20. Dakota Peters, also a freshman but wrestling on the Varsity level,…