Rutland Herald

19 hours ago | rutlandherald.com | Janelle Faignant

Spring is finally here, the birds are back and it’s time for the bees to come out of hibernation, and some of them are just looking for a little peace and quiet. Contrary to popular knowledge, honeybees don’t all live in hives by the thousands. Most are shown in mass swarms in their hives, which can house anywhere from 20,000 to 80,000 bees, but surprisingly there is a population of solitary bees who would rather live alone than in a colony.

2 days ago | rutlandherald.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.

A number of land conservation projects have completed or moved forward in recent months, one a 200-acre parcel in Pawlet and another 464 acres in Wallingford. At its regular meeting April 15, the Pawlet Select Board voted unanimously to give its support to a proposal from The Nature Conservancy to buy 192 acres of land to add to the existing North Pawlet Hills Conservation Area.

5 days ago | rutlandherald.com | Jim Lowe

It opens with a sudden “crack of the whip” setting off a race between the piccolo and the piano. Next weekend, Allison Cerutti will be the featured soloist when the Vermont Philharmonic performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major in Randolph and Barre. “I love those big romantic concertos with sweeping lines, like the Rachmaninoff Second, but that’s not really what I do,” she said. “The Ravel is very different from that.

5 days ago | rutlandherald.com | Adam Aucoin

The Rutland girls tennis team is young, but it's growing in confidence day by day. One of its young bright spots is freshman Brooke Flewelling, who hasn't backed down from the challenge of filling the No. 1 singles role so early in her high school career. Flewelling had the tightest of any of Friday's matches against rival Mount Anthony, a 7-0 Rutland loss at Whites Memorial Park. Flewelling and MAU junior Chloe Moore had a back and forth match that needed a 10-point tiebreaker to decide a winner.

6 days ago | rutlandherald.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.

FAIR HAVEN — Thinking they might change the policy on how social service groups ask taxpayers for money, the town's leaders got an earful from those who would have to gather voter signatures in order to be on the Town Meeting Day ballot.