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Both ski destinations on either side of Mount Mansfield have shifted COVID-19 guidelines for guests in the wake of surging case numbers across the country.
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While both districts have avoided the full-on closures that others in the state have faced due to teacher and student absences for COVID-19 quarantining, they have both undoubtedly suffered from the spread of this extremely contagious strain of the virus.
With temperatures dropping below zero for three straight nights, the vice-chairman of the Stowe Selectboard has been ordered by his own board to swiftly fix one of his apartments that a family of six has tried to keep warm with portable space heaters, because the furnace is broken.
Vermont’s chief federal judge is considering legal arguments about whether a reported confession in January 2021 by the prime suspect for at least eight fires in Stowe was made voluntarily during a police interview.
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We checked in with Lamoille County lawmakers to see how the legislative session was going.
Georgia Reed is 22 years old now, the same number of years — to the week — that have passed since her mother, Pam Cole Connell, died in a car crash on Route 100 near the Stowe/Waterbury town line. Three-week-old Georgia was a passenger on her first outing from home.
It’s difficult to overstate the ubiquity of onigiri — balls of sticky rice held together by a patch of seaweed — in Japan, but now they’re available to skiers and snowboarders at Stowe Mountain Resort.
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The Manor, a nursing home in Morrisville, is among 10 different long-term care facilities in Vermont currently suffering from an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, with 13 cases recorded at the facility as of Tuesday.
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Stowe Winter Carnival is back with an ice carving festival and snow volleyball. The festivities happen this week, Thursday, Jan. 20, through Sunday, Jan. 23, in Stowe.
The town of Stowe is in a holding pattern as the recently fired fire chief awaits a hearing on his termination.
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More people, more services. More services, more money. That’s the basic formula that will determine Stowe’s operating budget next fiscal year.
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For 100 years Keewaydin Farm, on Route 100 south of Stowe Village, has been owned and operated by the Pike family.
As construction of 14 new affordable housing apartments on Maple Street nears completion, the project was given a six-figure boost from the state of Vermont.
Carol Van Dyke had the answer to last week’s trivia question. The Friday program started in the 1951-52 ski season, making this year the program’s 70th anniversary.
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The combined PA/Stowe boys’ hockey team managed to skate through the past week unscathed, though. Here’s how the team fared.
Stowe’s skier and rider community is reaching the third of the annual landmarks of the season. The Christmas-New Year holiday stretch is fading into oblivion and January is now halfway through its run.
On Jan. 8, after nearly a month off due to COVID-19 and holiday game cancellations, the Stowe Girls U10 team hosted a deep and tough South Burlington team, ultimately losing 14-4. Rust played a big part in the loss, but the Stowe side showed grit and determination until the final horn.
The Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center will hold its annual Martin Luther King Jr. remembrance Sunday, Jan. 16, 3 p.m. in the sanctuary of the St. Joseph’s Cathedral Church, 20 Allen Street, Burlington.
The Lamoille Valley Housing & Homelessness Coalition hosts its 5th Homelessness Awareness Day Thursday, Jan. 20, from noon-2 p.m. at the Northgate Plaza in Morrisville to memorialize the 53 Vermonters who died while homeless in 2021.
Thanks to generous support and contributions, Stowe was illuminated with 972 lights for the 2021 Tree of Lights season.
On Thursday, Jan. 13, at 7 p.m. Healthy Lamoille Valley offers a free online discussion on teens and cannabis and a look at data on the impacts of legal retail markets on youth with John Seales, an appointed member of the legislatively mandated Substance Misuse Prevention Advisory Council and the council’s equity, prevention and policy subcommittees.
Longtime Stowe Reporter salesperson and man about Stowe Lou Kiernan retired at the end of 2021 after 22 years on the job and his coworkers gave him a proper sendoff.
The menu at Miso toh Kome is heavy on the onigiri options, but the miso comes before the rice in stand’s name for good reason.
Ethan Costello, ski patrol at Smugglers’ Notch Resort.
On Jan. 6, Johnsonites came together for a “Be-Longing for Justice” demonstration and vigil on the one-year anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The Antonuccis have crafted the stand menus to feature portable nutrient bombs, perfect for the skier and snowboarder on the go.
Georgia Reed volunteers at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.
Stowe’s Aaron Lepikko scored three goals in early January games against Hartford and Burr & Burton Academy.
The Sliwkas showed the inspectors a two-prong electrical outlet in a bathroom that is hot to touch and shocks them if they touch it in a certain way. Scott Brinkman measured the temperature of that outlet at 142 degrees, more than twice the temperature of other outlets in the apartment.
Santiago Ibarra gets the Sterling chairlift ready for skiers and riders at Smugglers’ Notch Resort Jan. 11 in minus-12 degree temperatures at the base.
A group walks across the Waterbury Reservoir dam in the mist.
Images and essays that show a year both jarring and joyous, heartbreaking and hopeful.
As a new year beckons, we present some of our favorite images of 2021.
As a new year beckons, we present some of our favorite images of 2021.
You can’t always see the driver behind the wheel of Stowe’s big town trucks, but now you can tell which truck is which.
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