Check out some of our favorite Rutland-related stories from the last few months!

• Could Rutland ever "export" its innovative ways? Yes. Take note of NYC's High Line & "railroad rebirth," as officials & planners across the U.S. consider efforts to convert relics from their own industrial pasts into potential economic engines.
  After High Line’s Success, Other Cities Look Up - NYTimes.com
• Revitalizing old movie houses builds communities & reveals a town's can-do spirit. RUTLAND & the PARAMOUNT, you're doing things right.
  Old Movie Houses Find Audience in the Plains - NYTimes.com
• Eric Hagen, Vermont innovator and Rutland MSJ graduate - father of the pay-what-you-want "Recession Ride" taxi service - your model is taking root (and opening eyes) across the country. Rock on.
  Another Restaurant Tries Pay-What-You-Want - NYTimes.com
• Vermont Public Television to tell stories of New Englanders who've found innovative ways to thrive in the midst of the recession. Seeds of renewal.
  N.E: Coping with economy: Rutland Herald Online
• Building bridges and an outbreak of RUTLAND-like spirit: "A victory of inspiration and persistence over practicality. Six months later it has become something else: a marvel of adaptive-use architecture that has been embraced to a degree even its backers hadn’t expected."
  Our Towns - Hudson River Walkway, an Improbable Treat - NYTimes.com
• Can Rutland's re-birthing of the Paramount Theatre inspire & ignite revival in other struggling U.S. towns? Definitely.
  Our Towns - Rosendale Artists Try to Save Its Movie Theater - NYTimes.com
• Big thumbs up to positive change now percolating in Rutland at the grass roots.
  Volunteer groups get creative: Rutland Herald Online
• Rutland and the Rutland Creative Economy tackle new initiatives.
  Rutland Creative Economy | Rutland, Vermont: Development Workshops scheduled, community involvement.
• Twilight / vampire novels lure young readers to donate blood. Great stuff, Kentucky.
  Edward comes to town 
• Can a community break from its long-gone past to take hold of a new future?
  Brownsville Journal - Fighting to Save Catholic Church Built by Italians - NYTimes.com
• Rutland, VT groups actively working to improve the community. Rutland Creative Economy and ‘Change in the Wind”
  Change in the wind: Rutland Herald Online
• Rutland's we-can-do-it spirit lives large in Point Lookout, NY.
  Our Towns - Generosity Keeps Long Island Market Afloat - NYTimes.com
• New angle opens eyes: Wisdom (even renewal) from watching traffic in the hard-core Bronx.
  On Bronx Stoops, a Highway Hell Entertains - NYTimes.com
• Fresh perspective from the Big Apple: NYC (& Brooklyn Bridge) can still help lead the way in urban transformation.
  Architecture Review - Brooklyn Bridge Park - Brooklyn Bridge Park Opens First Phase of Large Project 
• Rutland moves toward a new future with recent successes in tow. Our doc-in-progress kicked off Rutland Creative Economy forum, and we were very grateful to take part. Go Rutland. Go Red Cross.
  Residents brainstorm for a new economy: Rutland Herald Online
• Great article on Rutland, Vermont, moving ever forward.
  Creative Economy seeking new flow of ideas: Rutland Herald Online
• A man who gave blood, sweat and tears. Let's all get "Fred Forward."
  Pittsburgh Journal - ‘Mister Rogers’ Still Looms Large in Pittsburgh - NYTimes.com