By RUSSELL JONES The Brandon Discount Beverage, Liquor and Tobacco will soon offer another service to residents of Brandon. The new owners, Mohammed Bilal and Vicky Anser, have been working hard to improve and renovate the store since they bought it on March 25. “Me and Vicky have been working very hard on this,” Bilal, […]

By RUSSELL JONES A group of enterprising young West Rutland students were challenged by their teacher to dream up a business model to help fund extracurricular activities. During that project the students learned that even doing a dirty job can be rewarding. After being given a small investment, the students returned the initial startup funds […]

By RUSSELL JONES With new pavement laid this past weekend in a critical section of the downtown, linking the newly revised road around the Green to that section of road redone to the north of the downtown, light is truly visible at the end of that proverbial tunnel. The road construction project that has been […]

By RUSSELL JONES The Vermont Department of Transportation estimates almost 9,000 vehicles pass through Pittsford on Route 7 each day. For nearly a half-mile through the town, with Lothrop School centrally located in that stretch, the sidewalk is the same level as the road. After nearly two months of discussion, the question of whether the […]

By RUSSELL JONES After the deaths of two women and a burglary in or around Proctor in the past three months, the Proctor Selectboard brought in Rutland County Sherriff Stephen Benard to talk about the recent events and the possibility of either starting a neighborhood watch or adding more police coverage. Though 24-hour coverage was […]