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National Literacy Month came at a perfect time this year for Rutland Free Library and its Imagination Library, as they celebrate the distribution of over 10,000 books to local children
“It’s disheartening that you could almost use the same quotes I had from 10 years ago about what’s going on right now,” one advocate said this month while reflecting back on a continuing lack of enough shelter space. “We collectively haven’t made much progress.”
Journalists are taught to shy away from superlatives we canât back up with hard numbers, but I feel safe calling this the sleepiest budget season I have ever covered on the City Hall beat. Members of the Board of Aldermen did not find much to quibble with in Mayor David Allaireâs deliberately lean budget proposal, and most of the different sections flew through committee untouched. It wasnât even controversial when the Public Safety Committee cut â temporarily â another officer from the chronically understaffed police department. The Board of Aldermen voted this week ...
Three locally based agencies, the Mentor Connector, the Turning Point Center and the Homeless Prevention Center, were chosen to receive grants from the Bowse Health Trust, an organization with ties to Rutland Regional Medical Center. Jamie Bentley, community impact coordinator for the community health improvement team at the hospital, said the COVID-19 pandemic made things different this year causing a delay in the process. COVID was added to the list of priorities when assessing the applications. Members of the trust committee use the Community Health Needs Assessment to identify priorities....