A 28 foot by 22 foot photographic mural will soon grace the south wall of the former Strand Theater, which now houses Roots – The Restaurant, and faces Washington Street and Rutland City Hall, joining three sculptures on the Rutland Sculpture Trail and two other murals in the Center Street Marketplace in downtown Rutland.
Read MoreKathryn Wiegers, who has painted numerous murals on downtown Rutland buildings, is now looking to put them in other parts of the city with the help of Green Mountain Power executive and Rutland Sculpture Trail organizer Steve Costello.
Read MoreThe staff at Chamber & Economic Development of the Rutland Region (CEDRR), along with The Paramount Theatre and Come Alive Outside, are excited to announce the first annual Fruits of Labor Community Raffle.
Read More“After a year of patiently waiting and planning, we can’t be more excited to bring back Friday Night Live’s free entertainment to Center Street,” said Nikki Hindman, executive director of the Downtown Rutland Partnership. “Downtown businesses are eager to welcome the Rutland community to the district for a night of fun.”
Read MoreThe Paramount Theater will expect guests to have vaccination cards and masks when it resumes indoor shows later this month. The theater announced late last week that guests would have to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test administered within the past 72 hours before entering and that masks would have to be worn at all times while inside the venue.
Read MoreAs part of the scoping study being conducted for a potential redesign of the street, community leaders had discussed putting the perennial suggestion of converting the street into a pedestrian zone to the test with a temporary closure. As the summer ends, that has yet to take shape, but Rutland Redevelopment Authority Executive Director Brennan Duffy said the idea hasn’t been abandoned.
Read MoreThe Downtown Rutland Partnership (DRP) has hired BENT Media, a video production company based in Franklin County, to create a series of advertisements that will promote shopping, dining, art, and entertainment in the city’s historic center.
Read MoreIn celebration of its 10th anniversary, Same Sun of Vermont, Inc. proudly sponsors Blackberry Smoke at The Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. Tickets to the show are available online at The Heritage Family Credit Union Online Box Office found at www.paramountvt.org or by calling The Paramount’s Box Office at (802) 775-0903.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreFrom the start, there has been incredible support from the Rutland community. Mark Foley Properties has sponsored the physical space for the residencies and housing, first at 77 Grove St., and now in the historic Ripley Opera House on Merchants Row in downtown Rutland. The residency has partnered with The MINT, a state-of -the-art communal workshop and makers-space. This gives the artists who inhabit the beehive of studios at the Opera House access to tools and machinery to expand their work.
Read More“When you step off that train, where do you go?” Rutland Redevelopment Authority Executive Director Brennan Duffy asked on Monday. “Where is it logical you would leave and walk to.”
Duffy said the Rutland Regional Planning Commission was working on designs for improving the area around the station to make it more aesthetically pleasing, provide a “sense of arrival” and improve pedestrian safety.
Read MorePlacemakingX’s Ethan Kent, along with a few other members of his organization, visited downtown as part of a national tour. Local officials showed them downtown murals, the sculpture trail, the Paramount Theatre, and 77 Arts.
“Placemaking is the process through which communities shape their shared public spaces,” he said. “We help highlight, connect and support placemaking leaders all over the world.”
Read MoreAt 7:30 a.m. on Monday, July 19, the James M. Jeffords Station in downtown Rutland was packed with passengers eager to board the Ethan Allen Express for the first time in 16 months. Many local officials and residents were there for the celebration. After remarks at the Rutland station they rode to Castleton for a second celebration.
“This is yet another example that Vermont is open,” Lyle Jepson, executive director of the area Chamber & Economic Development of the Rutland Region, told the Rutland crowd.
Read MoreWonderfeet Kids' Museum, Rutland’s very own children’s museum located in the heart of Downtown, is excited to welcome local events back to The Paramount when their highly anticipated Lip Sync Battle returns to the stage Saturday, September 25.
Read MoreCalista 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.
Read MoreThe oldest family-run retail business in Rutland’s downtown is celebrating 65 years, as the next generation steps up to continue the tradition.
Read MoreIt’s been 18 years since the Sound Barrier — Rutland’s last official skateboard shop — closed its doors on Center Street. That void has now been filled.
Read MoreAfter over a year of quiet streets hushed by the global pandemic, crowds will be able to gather downtown once again on Center Street for fun, food and entertainment. The popular Friday Night Live summer music series will return for two weekends in September, featuring Ryan Cabrera and Tyler Hilton on the 10th, and Into the Mystic: The Van Morrison Experience on the 24th.
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