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Travelers Championship picks, predictions, odds for 2025 PGA Tour event
The TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., was just one more stop on the Scottie Scheffler Victory Tour in 2024. Scheffler is the defending champion of the Travelers Championship this week, which begins on June 19. Scheffler beat Tom Kim in a...

Tasting Seven New Vermont Restaurants and Bars
There's far more to Vermont than its most populous county, but sometimes it takes a nudge of informative encouragement to inspire a road trip. And what better time to take one than summertime, when the green hills beckon, the roads are ice-free...

Album Reviews: Six New Records From Vermont Artists
Every few months, the queue of Vermont albums awaiting review gets so long that music editor Chris Farnsworth has to do a mega-review week. Below are six new releases from artists around the Green Mountains, spanning genres from prog folk to free...

Don Tinney: Vermont’s students, among others, shortchanged by exorbitant health care costs
Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a...

2025 Vermont Twin State Baseball Classic to be played at Middlebury College! Find out who's on the Vermont roster!
The 2025 Vermont Twin State Baseball Classic Annual Classic will be played at Middlebury College’s Forbes Field on Saturday, June 28. Game one’s first pitch of the two seven-inning doubleheaders is at 10 a.m. following brief pregame ceremonies....
Caps off to the 48 Green Mountain High grads!
Green Mountain seniors assemble before marching into the commencement. Photos by Shawn Cunningham By Shawn Cunningham © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC Valedictorian Andrei Solzhenitsyn Weeks of rainy weather made for some uncertainty, but with a...

Foreplay Golf Company rebrands flagship event as the Green Mountain Classic moves to Rutland Country Club
RUTLAND—The Killington Classic, a popular and fast-growing golf event organized by Foreplay Golf Company, will get a new name and a prestigious new home in 2025. Rebranded as the Green Mountain Classic, the tournament will take place on Friday,...

Inside Scoop: LA riots, it’s not Sanders’s Vermont anymore, faith in the White House
Each week, the Washington Examiner brings to life the pages of its magazine with exclusive insight from the articles’ authors in the show Inside Scoop. In this episode, magazine executive editor Jim Antle analyzes how the Los Angeles riots sealed...

Ski Vermont says ridership increased from last season compared to previous
The last ski season saw 4.16 million people head to the Vermont slopes, according to Ski Vermont. The organization said that’s a 1.1% increase over the last season and a 6.2% increase over a 10-year average. Snowfall was up by 19 inches totaling...

Five literary theme parks to blow your vacation days on.
What’s behind a theme park? Often as not, a good yarn. When I was little, my family sometimes found itself at Story Land in New Hampshire. This park—and many others like it around the world—loosely celebrates fairy and folk tales, in a people’s...

Majority of Upper Valley lawmakers vote against Vermont school reform
Even before Monday’s votes on legislation that is expected to radically reshape Vermont’s education landscape, Upper Valley school officials, and a few local lawmakers, were calling for its defeat. Now that the law, H.454, has been approved, they...

Vermont Open begins in Fairlee
FAIRLEE, Vt. (WCAX) - The Vermont Open is back at the Lake Morey Country Club in Fairlee, with around 130 pro and amateur golfers playing in the three-day tournament. Golfers from all over New England and as far away as Florida are competing for a...

The Birthright odyssey: 1500 tourists set sail for Cyprus as Iran-Israel conflict unfolds
It was early Tuesday morning when young adults on Birthright Israel boarded a fleet of buses, But their destination was not for a desert hike or a history tour, but a planned escape — on a cruise ship headed to Cyprus. The beginning of Israel’s...

Energy, tourism among talking points during New England meeting, says Hogan
Eastern Canadian premiers met with northeastern U.S. governors once again on Monday amid ongoing trade tension between the two countries. But the meeting itself was amicable, according to Newfoundland and Labrador Premier John Hogan, who says...

Vermont Open returns to Lake Morey
FAIRLEE, Vt. (WCAX) - The Vermont Open is underway at the Lake Morey Country Club in Fairlee. About 130 players signed up for the three-day golf tournament. The field includes amateurs and nearly 90 professionals. They are competing for about...

Tourism down ‘between 20% and 60%’ in several Northeast states, US governors meet with Canadian premiers
As a new U.S. federal policies shift the U.S.’s foreign relationships, tourism has been hit hard in several Northeastern states, a number of governors stated in a wide-ranging conversation with Canadian premiers at the Massachusetts State House on...

Top 10 Active Travel Trends For Your Next Great Hiking Or Cycling Vacation
Active travel, especially guided or self-guided hiking and cycling trips, have exploded in ... More popualarity in recent years.getty Active travel is hot, and this segment of tourism has been booming ever since the pandemic. Actually, it was...

Forest Service issues final plan to manage 72,000 acres in Rutland, Windsor and Addison counties
After several years of debate and review, the U.S. Forest Service has issued a plan for managing 72,000 acres of public and private land in the Green Mountains, near Rutland. The agency is proposing to open roughly 11,000 acres to timber harvests,...

Northeast governors, Canadian premiers pledge collaboration despite trade war and tourism slide
Maine’s 176 craft breweries are already feeling the impacts of tariffs on aluminum and other packaging materials from Canada. Canadians’ reservations at Vermont hotels are down by 45%. And in Massachusetts, where nearly 2,400 Canadians study each...

From Nepal to Vermont: Winooski weaving project displays the ties that bind
Hari Luitel, 25, admiring her mother Sita’s work at the Winooski Senior Center Thursday, June 12, where strips of colorful weaves made by women in a recent workshop were exhibited. Photo by Auditi Guha/VTDigger WINOOSKI – Sita Luitel was all...