News

Saturday's rain didn't dampen the spirits at the first Rutland County Pride event. Members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies gathered for a street festival downtown to take in a series of performances and check out vendors.

City officials are looking to make it easier to build housing around downtown.

“She Means Business” will take place on May 22 at The Hub CoWorks located at 67 Merchants Row in Rutland.

The popular destination for little ones in Rutland is set to open in a new and improved space after a two-month hiatus.

Rutland residents will soon be able to enjoy Reimagine Depot Park thanks to a recently launched crowdfunding campaign.

Calling all poets: The Paper Poet is back! Join the Downtown Rutland Partnership and The Paper Poet in celebrating National Poetry Month all April long.

The Belden Co. has been working toward building a hotel at the downtown parking pit and the corner of Center and Wales streets, which was once the site of the Berwick Hotel. A round of state Community Recovery and Revitalization Program grants announced last month included $500,000 toward the estimated $35 million project cost.

Balint met with Mayor Michael Doenges and several members of the Board of Aldermen at The Hub Co-works Friday morning for informal discussions about local economic development issues. The discussion, as it had during the election and in much of the general recent public discourse around economic development, repeatedly came back to housing.

All events are family-friendly and open to anyone in the community.

The city is planning for a long, hard look at its streets.

There is talk of building a hotel in downtown Rutland in the same location where the Berwick Hotel once stood.

Vinyl albums have been slowly but steadily coming back since the late 2000s, and independent record stores have made a comeback along with them.

The first class took place on Saturday, kicking off a business with the philosophy that even kids with their endless energy can be mindful, too.

Santa Claus paid a visit to downtown Rutland on Friday evening as part of the Downtown Rutland Partnership's annual holiday tree lighting ceremony in Depot Park. The event featured free hot chocolate, holiday songs sung by the Rutland High School Chorus.

It’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays in the heart of Rutland city. The snow is here, and the Downtown Rutland Partnership is looking forward to the festivities planned for Thanksgiving weekend.

Faces and artifacts from the first Vermont Lesbian and Gay Pride March currently line the walls of the Castleton University Bank Gallery in downtown Rutland for an exhibit in tribute to the historic day when 350 people paraded through downtown Burlington.