Students are getting their first look at the classrooms, lounges and labs at the Community College of Vermont's brand new, $8 million facility in Rutland. School officials say growing enrollment drove their need for a larger facility.

In Vermont, homes for the aged are exempt from the state's nine percent rooms and meals tax. That's why officials from the Gables, an independent senior living facility in Rutland, say they were shocked when the state Tax Department told them just before Christmas that they owed more than $350,000 in delinquent meals taxes.  

Hundreds of people turned out to give blood at Rutland's annual Gift of Life Marathon. But the estimated tally of 1,800 pints fell short of a national record.

Organizers of the annual gift of life Marathon in Rutland hope to set a new record today and host the largest blood drive in the nation. Close to two thousand people will need to role up their sleeves to do it.

You wouldn't know it to look outside - but Vermont's snowmobile season officially begins today.