Looking around the current TV landscape, you might wonder if we need yet another issues-based comedy talk show. The market feels a bit saturated. “The Daily Show,” “Last Week Tonight” and “Full Frontal” all take deep dives on complex topics, packaging journalism with jokes and leaving us (ho…
The Housing Trust of Rutland County is pursuing a new location that would bring 20 new units of affordable housing to the area, according to executive director Elizabeth Kulas.
Bianca Zanella, 25, is a woman who is very involved in the Rutland community.
It was with grace that she began, with grace that she left, and with grace that Mount St. Joseph Academy welcomed back a mother to their community, someone who raised students at MSJ, Christ the King and College of St. Joseph: Sister Shirley Davis.
As of Dec. 23, Garden Time Rutland will be closed.
Practice was business as usual for the Rutland City Public Schools Unified Sports teams at Bowlerama last Monday night, until the Rutland Rugby Club showed up.
The basketball courts carried Rob Cassell from the Bronx to Vermont, and after completing college and receiving his degree, Cassell returned to Rutland to become the basketball coach at Rutland Middle School.
Growing up in the restaurant industry, I’ve learned a thing or two about cooking. I know my way around a busy kitchen. The sights, sounds and smells are baked into my mind like a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet: the sizzle of the sauté pans, the crackle of the grill, the hurried chop of kniv…
After being rescheduled due to rain Saturday, the 59th annual Halloween Parade made a triumphant trip through downtown Rutland on Sunday.
Armed with rakes, bags, and freshly-baked apple crisp pies, 200 students and over 30 faculty from Stafford Technical Center and Rutland High School headed out on a recent Tuesday morning to clean up Rutland County’s lawns.
Work was scheduled to begin last Saturday on the latest segment of the Creek Path.
Colleagues of Judge Frank McCaffrey, who died Saturday at age 82, said he found many ways to serve his community.
Rutland, VT — College of St. Joseph students and recent graduates were honored for their academic achievements at the Fall Honors and Awards Ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 21 in CSJ’s Tuttle Hall Theater. Ten students received President’s List honors while 52 students were named to the Dean’s List…
Casting shakeups are nothing new for television shows; actors may decide to depart for any number of reasons. However, depending on the series and the character, those absences can be felt long after the actor has left.
A $500,000 federal grant will let Mentor Connector double its overall operations, Executive Director Chris Hultquist said last Friday.
Veterans will have a place to make their voices heard in Rutland in November at a town hall-style event.
CLARENDON — On a recent Monday morning, students in Mike Lannon’s fifth-grade class at Clarendon Elementary School talked shop with guests Gov. Phil Scott and Sen. Brian Collamore.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund gave $184 million in grants and loans to community credit unions and loan funds nationwide, two of them in Vermont.
MENDON — This year’s Wheels for Warmth tire sale was a big hit, according to organizers.
MENDON — This year’s Wheels for Warmth tire sale was a big hit, according to organizers.
Mackie loves her job at Green Mountain Power, although, like a lot of people, she finds it annoying when the fax machine gets jammed.
CASTLETON — Like many playing her position, Castleton University’s newly minted Hall of Famer Vanessa Carter was an accidental goalie.
Anyone who bags a buck during the coming youth deer weekend is asked to report the kill at one of the state’s 24 biological reporting stations.
The Mentor Connector, a group that pairs professionally supported mentors with youth who are at risk of entering, or are in, foster care, has received a $15,000 grant from Wells Fargo to serve more children.
The best horror stories aren’t about ghosts or demons or knife-wielding murderers. The monsters that chase us into basements and down darkened hallways aren’t real; they’re merely grotesque manifestations of the human condition. The best horror stories are psychological; they poke and prod a…
If you’re not familiar with “Ver-mericana” you will be after listening to the Miss Guided Angels. The Rutland-area band’s new album, “The One that Got Away,” is a rollicking mix of folk, bluegrass, country, blues and rockabilly steeped in the hills of Vermont.
Like most people, Rutland City Public Schools Superintendent Adam Taylor carries his wallet with him wherever he goes. But the most precious item inside is neither money nor credit cards.
One of the most accessible, well-known and celebrated artists in jazz visits Vermont, when sax standout Branford Marsalis brings his tight-knit quartet to Rutland’s Paramount Theatre Oct. 20.
The $19,000 raised at an annual golf tournament last month will go to the Flip Side Skate Park Program at the Rutland Recreation Center in honor of Robert Ettori, a 20-year-old Rutland man who was found dead in May, after he’d been missing since February.
PROCTOR — They’re the only family where someone has to say, “Do you want to get the corpse off the table so we can eat dinner?”
That was intense.
If you’re going to make a puzzle-box mystery show in 2018, you better come correct. Landmark series like “Twin Peaks,” “The X-Files,” “Lost,” “Fringe” and “The Leftovers” have set a high bar. Each one was a sophisticated and fascinating example of how to build a gripping mystery that kept au…
CASTLETON — The Casella Theater at Castleton University was standing room only as hundreds of municipal administrators, organizers and legislators gathered last week for the Vermont Community Leadership Summit, “Making It Happen,” hosted by the Vermont Council on Rural Development.
While four interns in red shirts looked on last Thursday, Rutland Regional Medical Center received a “Spirit of the ADA Award” from the state.
Arts organization Art Is Vital made a public call to artists wishing to exhibit in temporary alternative galleries in Rutland. Six artists responded and are currently showing their work in two sites on Merchants Row and one on West Street. The exhibitions are the responsibility of the artist…
The Rutland City Fire Department is grooming its next generation.
KILLINGTON — Five years after it began beefing up its bicycling infrastructure, Killington Ski Resort is seeing a boom in the number of cyclists visiting its trails, and it’s affecting the surrounding area.
A trip to 77 Gallery in Rutland right now will reward you in ways you could not predict. The gallery is full of a reverent collaborative installation called “Et l’eau repondit ... And Water Responded.”
Rutland County’s annual Pumpkin Princess Pageant has become the Pumpkin Royalty Contest, because this year it’s not just pumpkin princesses vying for a harvest crown.
CASTLETON — Boyden Valley Winery is more than doubling its annual cider order from Brown’s Orchard on Route 30, a whopping 40,000 gallons this year, to meet growing demand for their ciders, cider wines, liqueurs and hard ciders, orchard proprietor Charlie Brown said last Thursday.
CLARENDON — The Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport was awarded a $150,000 planning grant over the summer.
Every time. Every time the depression horse show gets me.
For many, leaving a domestically violent situation doesn’t just mean leaving their home — it means finding their own fresh start.
The stoneworker in Center Street Marketplace Park won’t be alone for long.
CASTLETON — With a new year, a new president and some restructuring, Castleton University is turning the corner from some hard changes.
Relationshipping, or “shipping” for short, is the act of rooting for the romantic pairing of the particular couple either in real life or within a fictional context. Shipping exists in all media, from young-adult novels and comic books to television and film and even real-life. If you’ve eve…
In an age plagued with addiction, economic disparity and mental illness, where technology is advancing faster every day, professionals say aging educational systems aren’t meeting the needs of Vermont’s growing minds.
Joshua Holden brings “The Joshua Show” to the Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival in Brattleboro at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 23. It’s part of a five-day celebration of puppets. (Photo by Richard Terine)
KILLINGTON — Vermont’s largest ski resort is busy completing what will be $25 million in improvements to its infrastructure, hoping the upgrades will draw more visitors in the coming ski seasons.
By Kate Barcellos
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TV Review
Looking around the current TV landscape, you might wonder if we need yet another issues-based comedy talk show. The market feels a bit saturated. “The Daily Show,” “Last Week Tonight” and “Full Frontal” all take deep dives on complex topics, packaging journalism with jokes and leaving us (ho…
Growing up in the restaurant industry, I’ve learned a thing or two about cooking. I know my way around a busy kitchen. The sights, sounds and smells are baked into my mind like a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet: the sizzle of the sauté pans, the crackle of the grill, the hurried chop of kniv…
Casting shakeups are nothing new for television shows; actors may decide to depart for any number of reasons. However, depending on the series and the character, those absences can be felt long after the actor has left.
The best horror stories aren’t about ghosts or demons or knife-wielding murderers. The monsters that chase us into basements and down darkened hallways aren’t real; they’re merely grotesque manifestations of the human condition. The best horror stories are psychological; they poke and prod a…
If you’re going to make a puzzle-box mystery show in 2018, you better come correct. Landmark series like “Twin Peaks,” “The X-Files,” “Lost,” “Fringe” and “The Leftovers” have set a high bar. Each one was a sophisticated and fascinating example of how to build a gripping mystery that kept au…