Occupancy rates this winter may have sagged a bit under the weight of all that erratic weather, but the post-pandemic tourism boom in Stowe is looking more and more like it’s here to stay.
After a short but turbulent ownership, Stoweflake Mountain Resort was quietly sold off by MCR hotels at the end of last year for $19 million to Jamsan Management.
At the final of four monthly legislative breakfasts hosted Monday by the Lamoille Economic Development Corporation, it was perhaps fitting that, as folks munched on pastries, the biggest pastry of all was the central topic of the day.
After December flooding forced the closure of a bridge that effectively bisected Stowe’s Quiet Path, town employees scrambled to build a new one a few hundred feet away instead of waiting a much longer time to go through local and state permitting processes.
Bob Burley, a tenant at the Morrisville-Stowe Airport, said the airport was packed last week with planes, passengers and pilots who flew in to catch the sight of the total solar eclipse on April 8. He said all northern Vermont airports reported similar attendance.
Total reported incidents: 131
Arraignments, week of April 8
A man who admitted last year that he sexually assaulted and beat two underage family members will serve at least a decade and a half in prison.
Total reported incidents: 106
Salvation Farms has chosen Kelly Dolan as its next executive director.
Tiffany Donza of Stowe has joined Element Real Estate.
Berkshire Hathaway Vermont Realty Group and the Trombley & Day Group have opened a new branch in Stowe in the Springer Miller office building, 782 Mountain Road.
Copley Hospital’s Laboratory Services Department has received accreditation from the College of American Pathologists based on a recent inspection.
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