Look up! Downtown murals brighten workaday Rutland RUTLAND—If you’ve enjoyed the butterflies in flight, goldfish streaming through a wall, flowers planted on the side of a building side, Batman contending with a griffon, rural Vermont being depicted by a pair […]
Tag: Rutland Region
News Briefs
Rutland Region
Streetscape changes RUTLAND—The 18th century house at the corner of West and Court streets, said to be the oldest structure remaining in the city, is no more. Once home to the Good Cents thrift store but owned by Grace Congregational […]
News Briefs
Rutland Region
Wallingford crossing repairs WALLINGFORD—The town of Wallingford has received official notice from the state Secretary of Transportation Chris Cole, that the railroad crossing on Route 140 (Depot Street) is scheduled to be reconstructed next year. The project is complicated by […]
News Briefs
Rutland Region
Student housing awarded tax credits RUTLAND—The Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development awarded Castleton University’s downtown Rutland student housing $170,000 in tax credits on Sept. 22. The second and third floors of the Clement Building now house dorm suites […]
News Briefs
Rutland Region
Club owner files suit against city RUTLAND—September 12, Charles Greeno, owner of Rutland dance club The Local, filed a federal lawsuit against the Rutland City Police Department for discrimination and unequal enforcement. Greeno complains that police situating their cruisers outside […]
News Briefs
Rutland Region
By: Lani Duke Property taxes decrease as a result of Act 46 WALLINGFORD—Wallingford property owners received reduced tax bills in mid-August as a result of a lowered education tax, down from last year’s mil rate of $1.429 to $1.3675. That […]
News Briefs
Rutland Region
RUTLAND—Over the past four months, the College of St. Joseph “found” an additional academic building by transforming the 200-year-old wood-framed carriage house for academic use. Green Mountain Power worked with the school’s maintenance director Tom Beland to gut the building, […]
News Briefs
Rutland Region
By: Lani Duke School districts consider Act 46 by deadlines School classrooms are filling up soon, and boards are returning to tackle discussions of how to meet the state-mandated merger requirements of Act 46. If these school districts combine, which […]
News Briefs
Rutland Region
Downtown gets two new stores By Lani Duke RUTLAND—Black Moon Games has opened at 9 Evelyn St. in downtown Rutland, specializing in tabletop board and card games, role-playing games and miniatures. It also has a large gaming space in which […]
News Briefs
News Briefs: Rutland Region , 6-22-2016
By Lani Duke 2016 Dancing with the Rutland Stars cast announced RUTLAND CITY—The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice (RAVNAH) will get another “shot in the arm” from the upcoming Dancing with the Rutland Stars fundraiser scheduled for October […]