BY NIKKI PFEIFFER AND ROBBIE LEEDS A group of seventeen ultimate frisbee players packed up their warm clothes and headed out for Montreal for the third tournament of the Green Mountain Flying Squirrels Fall season, The tourney was held by McGill University and the games were played on both Saturday and Sunday.
Archive | October, 2008
The Bus service in Poultney
BY WAI PHYO MYINT Poultney residents welcomed the re-launching of the public transportation service, also known as The Bus, by the Marble Valley Regional Transit District (MVRTD) last month. The Bus expanded its service up to the Poultney region by extending the Castleton and Fair Haven route on September 29. A 16-seat bus is operating [...]
Main Street—sharing the fate of national economy
by Melissa Markstrom With the upcoming closure of Poultney Market and Spirits, a local favorite since 1951, GMC students can see the impact of the economic crisis on Poultney’s Main Street. Owner Peter Rubino explains that despite the $40,000 a month liquor sales, the store receives only 6% of liquor revenues, because Vermont is a [...]
