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  • Volunteers help Pine Hill Park ready for spring and summer fun

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    RUTLAND - Pine Hill Park offers outdoor recreation to Rutland residents and visitors every day of the year, but the park is especially beautiful and inviting in the spring. The mountain bike shop is now open inside the Giorg ... full story

  • Trio of GMC tennis players earn All-Conference Honors

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    POULTNEY - The North Atlantic Conference (NAC) East released its All-Conference selections Friday.  Three Green Mountain tennis players were honored: Freshman Connor Braden highlighted the Eagle contingent with three aw ... full story

  • News briefs from the Rutland Region

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    A business becomes "greener" with natural gas Wilk Paving asphalt plant in Center Rutland is switching its heating and burning systems to natural gas, supplied through NG Advantage's recently installed natural gas pipeline a ... full story

  • GMC basketball adds The Sharon Academy all-time leading scorer

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    POULTNEY - Green Mountain College Men's Basketball is proud to announce that Trent Morrison of The Sharon Academy has deposited and will be enrolling at the College in the fall.  Morrison has been a standout two-sp ... full story

  • Act Out Loud contest inspires community rall for traffic safety

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    RUTLAND - May is Global Youth Traffic Safety Month, a time when the National Youth Safety Organization (NYSO), and its 70 national nonprofit organizations, work with youth groups to engage in traffic safety projects in ... full story

  • News briefs from the Lakes Region

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    Greeters to screen boats for invasive species BOMOSEEN - A Vermont Grant in Aid provides funding for the Town of Hubbardton and the Lake Bomoseen Association to support the Greeter Program. Greeters offer voluntary watercraf ... full story

  • Three families impacted by Rutland fire

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    Red Cross provided resources in support of the displaced RUTLAND-Three families were displaced from their Maple Street apartments in Rutland after a late morning fire on May 3.  In response, the Red Cross mobili ... full story

  • Town of Castleton receives workplace safety award

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    CASTLETON - The Town of Castleton was recently recognized for its strong commitment to workplace safety at the 11thAnnual Vermont Workplace Safety Conference & Governor's Awards. The ceremony, which was held April 12 ... full story

  • Downtown Rutland Partnership completes the first Annual Green-up Downtown Day

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    RUTLAND - The Downtown Rutland Partnership (DRP) May 3 announced a successful Green-up day and extends its appreciation to volunteers and donors. On Friday, May 3, the Downtown Rutland Partnership organized the first ... full story

  • First hole-in-one of the 2013 golf season at Okemo Valley Golf Club

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    LUDLOW - On Saturday, April 27, Mark Reffner, of Maplewood, N.J., had the honor of making the first hole-in-one of the 2013 golf season at Okemo Valley Golf Club. Reffner aced the 7th hole from the white tee, using his ... full story

  • Rutland takes third place in rugby tournament

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    A scrum down between Bennington (l) and Rutland (r) in the Roosters second match of the day, which resulted in a Bennington victory. WEST RUTLAND - The Framingham Exiles Rugby Club walked away with the trophy to the f ... full story

  • News briefs from the Rutland Region

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    FIGHTING BLIGHT Rutland City plans to ticket northwest Rutland houses that display obvious building code violations, in an effort to push owners into repairing the buildings. A recent housing needs study recommended rev ... full story

  • News briefs from the Lakes Region

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    RESTORING A HISTORICAL HOUSE POULTNEY - Green Mountain is in the process of restoring the 1900 C.W. Humphrey House, known most commonly as Bentley Hall, with plans for it to be a community meeting and events center that ... full story

  • Grants allow Castleton to get the job done

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    CASTLETON-Warming weather means the start of construction projects for the town of Castleton. Two grants were awarded by the Vermont Agency of Transportation for $175,000 each to complete needed repairs along Creek Road ... full story

  • Girls on the Run Vermont announces new central Vermont 5K

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    Governor Peter Shumlin to attend June 1 event in Rutland RUTLAND - Girls on the Run Vermont is thrilled to announce a new 5K run/walk, to be held Saturday, June 1, at 10 a.m. at the Vermont State Fairgrounds in Rutlan ... full story

  • News briefs from Killington Elementary School

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    STUDENT ART OPENING            May 3 - May 14- WOODSTOCK-Artistree Gallery in Woodstock, Vt. will feature an exhibit of photographs titled "Exploring Cosmic Scales" featuring photographs ta ... full story

  • News briefs from the Rutland Region

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    CAFE VERDE OPENS There's a new restaurant in Rutland. Café Verde recently opened at 136 Strongs Ave., former site of NK Carpet Designs. The new business owner is Gary Maravalli, founder and former owner of Vermont Bagel ... full story

  • News briefs from the Lakes Region

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    FUTURE PLANNING POULTNEY-What lies in Poultney's future? Poultney 2020 conference attendees hope to see a community art center on Main Street, a localvore restaurant, a park on Main Street, and an in-town hub for recrea ... full story

  • GMC earns perfect environmental rating in Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges

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    POULTNEY - Green Mountain College continues to earn accolades as one of the greenest colleges in the country. GMC received a perfect "99" green rating in the 2013 edition of The Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Coll ... full story

  • KMS Freeskiing Team finds the podium at USASA Nationals

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    Tec Calcagni and Charlie Gnoza win slopestyle and take second in halfpipe in their respective age categories KILLINGTON- Wrapping up a successful Killington Mountain School trip to the USASA National Championships at ... full story

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