Despite increasing its fees just over a year ago for people to use the town’s Mayo Farm events fields, the Stowe Selectboard last week agreed to reduce some of those fees after one of the town’s event organizers asked for a discount.

Agricultural Digesters, a Vermont-based biogas development company, has obtained grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program to build anaerobic digesters at three Vermont dairy farms in addition to a fourth already under development.

Saturday was the fifth annual Day for Jake at Stowe Mountain Resort honoring the late Jake Burton Carpenter of Stowe and Burton Snowboards. Hundreds of skiers and riders enjoyed the festivities in perfect spring conditions at the ski area.

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Stowe residents on Friday approved a $17.2 million school budget, following months of angst over a state education funding law that likely contributed to the failure of nearly 30 school budgets on Town Meeting Day.

At one point during the two-hour Stowe school discussion that preceded town meeting, absent a budget to vote on, one resident jokingly suggested that Stowe try to emancipate itself from the state of Vermont.

While plenty of people are talking about next month’s total solar eclipse as a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon, the same thing cannot be said about 100-year floods.

When Rick Rothammer started working at the company now known as Stowe Communications, the fledgling cable outfit provided just about the only way folks could view anything other than the local CBS affiliate, and not much more than that.

In addition to voting on and discussing local municipal and school matters, Vermonters on Town Meeting Day gave Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley her single state primary election victory.

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