By Katy Savage Rutland School Board members settled the mascot debate on Jan. 10 and decided Rutland High School will simply be called “Rutland.” The approval of the name came after three years of contentious debate and community divide about […]
Tag: Rutland High School
Local News
Rutland High School sophomores help bring USA Hockey National Title to Vermont
A Vermont youth hockey team with Rutland connections won a USA Hockey National Title in Troy, Michigan, on Monday, April 4. The Vermont St. Pats Hockey Club claimed the USA Hockey 16-and-Under Boys’ Tier II National Championship on Monday with […]
2022 E-Editions
Mountain Times – Volume 51, Number 15 – April 13-19, 2022
Please wait while flipbook is loading. For more related info, FAQs and issues please refer to dFlip Books WordPress Flipbook Plugin Help documentation.
Arts, Dining & Entertainment, Events & Activities
Soup Bowls for Hunger supports
Thursday, Mar. 24 — RUTLAND — The sixteenth annual Soup Bowls for Hunger will be held Thursday, Mar. 24 at Rutland High School. This year, due to Covid restrictions, the event will be a drive-thru version. All proceeds will be […]
Featured, Local News
Rutland High School is back with controversial raiders mascot
By Katy Savage The Rutland High School’s mascot is back to the Rutland Raiders following a 6-5 school board vote on Tuesday, Jan. 11. The controversial Raiders mascot, deemed racist by some, was changed to the Ravens in October 2020, […]
Local News
Rutland Ravens mascot vote was a ‘binding action,’ legal review says
By Emma Cotton/VTDigger RUTLAND — An attorney’s review, requested by the Rutland City Board of School Commissioners, says the board’s vote to change the Rutland High School mascot to the “Ravens” should stand. The board voted to retire the previous mascot, […]
Local News
Rutland school board holds back-and-forth forum on mascot
By Emma Cotton/VTDigger In the latest of a long-running back-and-forth over the Rutland High School mascot, residents addressed the Rutland city board of school commissioners at a forum Tuesday night, June 22. “We are here at this public forum to address […]
Commentary, Opinion
Why I will no longer teach at Rutland High School
By Jennie Gartner, a now former teacher at Rutland High School In October 2020, I resigned my position as a social studies teacher at Rutland High School, effective at the end of this school year. As a teacher, and adviser […]
Letter, Opinion
Cancel culture is unsustainable
Dear Editor, “A rose by any other name would smell the same,” wrote William Shakespeare. Not so apparently, in the Raider vs. Raven standoff here in Rutland. The cancel culture has reached Rutland in the form of challenging the racist […]
Letter, Opinion
The mascot we deserve
Dear Editor, If anyone has the right to hold a soft spot in their heart for the Raiders, it is the extended family of Roger Laird. In the 1920s, as a Raider, Roger suffered a traumatic brain injury on the […]