The Downtown Rutland Holiday Stroll is back up to full strength this year. Downtown Rutland Partnership Executive Director Nikki Hindman said 26 locations are participating in the Saturday event.

The Budrow family finds their groove in the Rutland community

In March 2020, just days before the state shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, Calista Budrow moved into a new house with her family in Rutland. She brought her small collection of houseplants with her. A year later, Budrow has more than 100 plants in her 2,000 square foot house.

Couple cultivating downtown plant shop

Calista Budrow and her husband have bought the former Christian Science Reading Room building and are renovating it ahead of opening a plant shop there. The store, to be called GreenSpell Plant Shop will be aimed at indoor horticulture.

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