Celebrate Poetry & Earth Month all April long by rediscovering your sense of place among the pop-up poetry path created by The Paper Poet in collaboration with Phoenix Books Rutland and Downtown Rutland Partnership. Over 30 poets have 70+ poems on display in 17 downtown Rutland businesses. Poems are on display through the first week of May. You are invited to celebrate by following the green signs and reading the poems in the window fronts.
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The primary responsibility of this position is to maintain the cleanliness of sidewalks and the urban environment within Rutland Vermont’s designated downtown district. A major component of this role includes the operation of a small sidewalk sweeping machine. This is a seasonal, part-time position averaging 10 hours per week through October, with flexibility on the schedule.
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Art is a community heartbeat, and I felt the beat strong on a cold morning as I walked through downtown Rutland to view spectacular murals. Sure, most communities have murals, but there is something special about the collective body of work in downtown Rutland.
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The Downtown Rutland Partnership is starting weekly giveaways when you eat out in Downtown Rutland! Every week we’ll be offering a gift certificate to one lucky winner that posts a photo of takeout from a downtown restaurant.
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Shop local this holiday season with gifts under $50 for everyone on your list! Find a variety of items right here in Downtown Rutland, Vermont — including home decor, jewelry, clothing, self-care products, handmade crafts, local foods, accessories, collectibles and so much more.
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Gus Louras outlasted most of his peers. Sam Frank Inc. already was one of the longest-serving businesses in the city when Louras, who died this week at age 95, purchased it.
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The object of this new native-marble sculpture is one of America’s first civil-rights advocates. The man rendered for the ages in stone was also the first Black college president in the USA. Now it's time to introduce and celebrate Martin Henry Freeman, a Rutland native.
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Volunteers from the Rutland Halloween Parade, the Downtown Rutland Partnership, and Awesome Graphics are hanging past parade photos in businesses and empty storefronts for “Downtown Windows on Parade,” which will be on display starting Saturday, October 24th through Halloween.
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The 61st Rutland Halloween Parade may be canceled due to Covid-19, but that won’t stop the celebration of Rutland’s favorite holiday! Gather your ghouls (and don’t forget your masks!) for socially distanced events being held the last week of October.
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Have your business hours changed due to COVID-19? Given the present times, it’s more important than ever that customers know when you are open and how to contact you
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The latest piece in the Rutland Sculpture Trail, a marble image of Paul Harris, who founded Rotary International, will be unveiled in downtown Rutland on Oct. 6.
The bust of Harris will be the seventh in the series of downtown carvings and will be on the west side of Merchants Row, outside the Opera House.
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Organizers say a temporary reconfiguration of Center Street has been a big hit, and the city is looking at a grant to study a more permanent redesign. The Community and Economic Development Committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend that the Board of Aldermen apply for a $30,000 Agency of Transportation grant to study permanently changing the street.
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Residents and visitors to Rutland may notice a new series of “Rutland Art Ramble” signs on windows along the streets of our familiar city. The signs point to art exhibitions throughout the city, designed to enliven, challenge and entertain.
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Summer is in full swing in Downtown Rutland! Make reservations to dine with your family and close friends at one of our many restaurants.
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Titled “We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest Until it Comes,” the mural is 60-feet high at its tallest point and it is painted on the back wall of the former Strand Theater overlooking Center Street Marketplace Park. The title is from a song composed by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, founding member of Sweet Honey in the Rock and inspired by Ella Josephine Baker, a civil rights leader and mentor with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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COVID-19 has closed playgrounds, limited sports and summer camp activities and curtailed playdates. So for many families with young kids, the long hot summer looms. But the situation got several nonprofit groups in Rutland to brainstorm ways to create kid-friendly, hands-on activities to help jumpstart family fun.
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