"Major Player"
Vermont Life | Spring 2018
“Judging by statistics, the Champlain Game Studio’s formula — a rigorous, collaboration-based curriculum combined with real-world learning — produces results. Eighty-one percent of the class of 2016 secured a game-related job within six months of graduation, and, Walker says, they are steeled for the task ahead.”
"Heating Up"
Vermont Life | Autumn 2017
“For foresters and the working landscape, wood pellets offer an opportunity to recover lost ground. Over the past 20 years, numerous paper mills in New York and New England have closed due to reduced paper use, recycling and the globalization of paper production. The trend eliminated most of the market for pulp wood. When a pulp mill in Berlin, New Hampshire, closed in 2006, it stopped processing more than 1 million tons of wood per year. ”
"The Comeback Trail"
Vermont Life
Autumn 2016
“Ascutney’s life as a resort, in the conventional sense, appears to be over. The condominiums remain, of course, as does the Holiday Inn Club Vacation hotel at the base area. But lifts will never deposit skiers at the high point of the old ski area, a few hundred vertical feet below the summit, and people from Boston and New York won’t cram the base lodge at lunchtime on winter Saturdays. Most of the human traffic on the property will be human-powered — people pedaling bicycles or using skins and skis to ascend this craggy monadnock of a mountain. ”
