Middletown Springs News

The town's Select Board plans to file documents with the state Public Service Board opposing a wind farm proposal to be located in Clarendon, Ira and neighboring towns.

Plans for a major wind power project in Rutland County have been scaled back. Community Wind Power had wanted to build up to 60 turbines on three separate ridges in the towns of Ira, Middletown Springs, Poultney, West Rutland, Clarendon and Tinmouth.

A wind farm developer has reapplied for a permit to put up testing equipment after relocating a proposed site from Ira to Clarendon.

When Darwin Thompson was 15, he went on a trip to Cape Cod with a youth group, and one of his friends brought a set of golf clubs on the trip.

Wreaths adorn memorials while flags flutter in the breeze at St. Stanislaus Kostka Cemetery in West Rutland.

By a margin of 24 votes, voters in Middletown Springs on Wednesday turned down the town's $1.8 million school budget for the second time this year.

A 25-year-old convicted sex offender recently relocated from a neighboring community to Clarendon and law enforcement officers have alerted local officials of his presence.

As Burlington lawyer John Kassel drove his electric car around town during $4-a-gallon gasoline prices last summer, people would stop him to ask, 'Where can I get one of those?' The answer was: You can't. But that answer is likely to change.

A day after the developer of a proposed wind farm faced the public, several who attended the meeting said the discussion is far from over.

TINMOUTH - The developer of a proposed wind farm in southwestern Vermont says the earliest the towers could be up would be 2011.

The developer behind a proposed wind farm did not have answers to all the questions put to him Monday, but said the permitting process would provide them.

A would-be wind farmer will meet with people to answer questions about a planned development centered on Ira.

Two bills are making their way through the Legislature that would give towns the authority to designate a public school as the school of choice for their students.

An energy company wants to build several wind farms in Rutland County. According to Vermont Community Wind's website they plan to build wind turbines on Herrick Mountain in Ira.

Herrick Mountain in Ira is pictured from the rest area along Route 4. The road to the right is Ira-Birdseye Road.

On the surface, it looked like a typical Vermont maple syrup festival - generous helpings of traditional 'sugar on snow,' maple cotton candy and dozens of gallons of Grade A syrup for sale.

The Middletown Springs Historical Society will hold its 21st Annual Maple Festival on the Green Sunday, March 22 from 1 to 4 p.m. The event will feature Fred Bradley's demonstration of early maple sugarmaking in a cast iron kettle over an open fire.

The sweetest event thus far this season is on tap Sunday. The 21st annual Maple Festival on the Green in Middletown Springs is set to boil from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide among five candidates running for three positions, including one man running for the Select Board, constable and road commissioner, and increased school and town ...

Five candidates running for three positions, including one man running for the Select Board, constable and road commissioner, and increased school and town spending await voters at the polls.