winter

Winter workers bring foreign flavor to community

For one international student, the valley is cozy, relaxing, and exciting
WILMINGTON - Each winter, international students temporarily move to the valley to staff the area’s commerce centers, including Mount Snow, The Hermitage Club, and other local businesses. The...

Skier visits up 10% this winter

MONTPELIER- Celebrating a successful winter season, supporters and friends of Vermont’s ski industry joined the state’s alpine and cross-country ski areas at Killington Resort on Wednesday, June 7 and Thursday, June 8, for the Vermont Ski Areas Association’s 54th annual meeting.
Despite...

Winter brings fun, friendship on the slopes

Women’s ski group celebrates 20 years of camaraderie and time on the slopes
DOVER - Ski pro Donnamarie Colasurdo has trouble believing 20 years have passed since she started a women’s ski group at Mount Snow, then called “Chix on Stix,” now called “Winter Stix.” The group...

Celebrate winter with “Walk to School” day

VERMONT – Embrace the Norwegians’ wintertime secret for a healthy mind, body, and emotional well-being. Cool that cabin fever with a refreshing winter walk to school, work or the grocery store.
Whether or not people and their families have fun this winter could be all about how they...

For inn owner, pandemic winter looms

This article is part of a series of articles about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has changed daily life for people in the Deerfield Valley.
DOVER - For Carina Hellström, owner of the Gray Ghost Inn, the pandemic hasn’t changed her relationship with guests she’s known for years....

Grant will help develop winter park, walking trails

WILMINGTON- Wilmington Works has secured one of three AARP “winter placemaking” grants awarded in Vermont.
AARP says this year’s grant program focused on projects that promote winter activities by people of all ages. “Vermont’s winter months can be long and dark and contribute greatly to...

Screenshot of Mount Snow General Manager Tracy Bartels

Ski areas prep for pandemic winter

WILMINGTON - At a meeting of the bi-town economic development committee on Thursday, November 5, the committee received updates about upcoming winter operations at Mount Snow and the Hermitage Club. In addition, Wilmington Economic Development Consultant Gretchen Havreluk said attempts to contact...

Winter is on its way. Snow blanketed the Haystack Mountain trails and parking lots at the Hermitage Club on Tuesday. Early season storms have given everyone a taste of the coming winter.
Photo by Randy Capitani

Winter is on its way. Snow blanketed the Haystack Mountain trails and parking lots at the Hermitage Club on Tuesday. Early season storms have given everyone a taste of the coming winter. Photo by Randy Capitani

Code Red! COVID limits could make for a tough winter

MONTPELIER- Vermont businesses dependent on outdoor sports tourism may be in for a lean winter. At a press conference on Tuesday, state officials said the number of people in the Northeast who can travel to Vermont without a quarantine had dwindled to just 332,000. Those who can travel to...

Mount Snow General Manager Tracy Bartels

GM says safety, getting through winter, are top concerns

DOVER- Customer safety during the winter season is the overriding concern for Mount Snow and Vail Corp. That was the message delivered by Mount Snow General Manager Tracy Bartels and Senior Manager of Communications Jamie Storrs during an online “town hall” meeting with local businesspeople on...

Mount Snow general manager Tracy Bartels, in a photo taken at Mount Sunapee, NH, last winter. Bartels took over Mount Snow’s top spot in April.

New Mount Snow GM looks to connect with the community

DOVER- When Tracy Bartels took over the general manager’s job at Mount Snow in early April, to say the transition was unusual is a big understatement. After all, the mountain had been shut down on March 15 after the coronavirus pandemic was declared, people around the valley were reeling from the...