Proctor News

A Proctor teenager charged with doing almost $2,000 of damage to a car in the Mill River Union High School parking lot answered to a pair of charges in Rutland District Court Monday.

U.S. Postal employee Kelly Socia drops mail off to Peter Puotinen at Aubuchon Hardware on West Street in Rutland in 2008.

Veteran mailman Kelly Socia doesn't get it. Why would the Rutland Post Office, after 10 years of giving him permission to wear a Santa suit during his downtown mail deliveries in the days leading up to Christmas, adamantly say no this year? "Last year they told me I couldn't wear it because it was offensive to some people," Socia said downtown ...

The Vermont State Police handed out its highest award on Thursday to a sergeant who was involved in a gunbattle in Proctor in November 2008.

A generator and air compressor were stolen from a service trailer at Harvest Equipment on Nov.

Carris Reels is relocating its corporate headquarters from Rutland to the former Citizens Bank building on Main Street.

A Vermont company that makes reels that hold wire, rope, cable and other products is moving its headquarters from Rutland to Proctor.

Another budget season kicks off tonight, when Mayor Christopher Louras presents his fiscal year 2011 proposal to the aldermen.

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How about this for a fish story: swarms of piranhas in a Vermont river. Well, OK, not exactly.

The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says a two-and-a-half pound fish native to South America and related to a piranha was found in the Otter Creek in Proctor.

Jason Hochberg was just happy he was able to be in the courtroom Tuesday when Scott A. Goetz pleaded guilty to using a wooden baseball bat to assault him a year ago.

At the end of October, the Topsfield Playground Committee will install a new playground at Proctor Elementary School - six months ahead of schedule.

A Rutland County community group is coming together to save a local landmark. Wilson Castle sits on 150 acres off the West Proctor Road in Proctor.

A former Proctor High School employee is being investigated by local and possibly federal authorities for "mishandling and potential misappropriation" of school funds.

The bikers took over Friday. "Killington is like a ghost town this time of year and all of a sudden it fills with bikers," said Joel Labante, 26, of East Hampton, Mass.

Terry Moran of Hugh Duffy Coal & Oil of Rutland poses with Chris Keyser of Owner Services, headquartered in Proctor.

Recently, close observers may have noticed some of the city's Department of Public Works equipment in West Rutland, or West Rutland's machinery in the city.

Residents of 12 senior apartments, a day-care center and the Proctor Post Office are all wondering when they might be able to move back in following a Friday-night fire at one of the town's most recognizable buildings.

Residents of 12 senior apartments, a day-care center and the Proctor Post Office are all wondering when they might be able to move back in following a Friday-night fire at one of the town's most recognizable buildings.