Green Mountain College

Raj Bhakta with Regenerative Land Holdings LLC has applied for an Act 250 permit to create 18 residential condos and 93 hotel units.

When Raj Bhakta, the founder of WhistlePig Whisky, bought the campus of the former Green Mountain College in Poultney last year, he announced vague plans to create a school that would combine hands-on learning with his new brandy making operation.While he’s pushing ahead with his spirits business, it’s Bhakta’s wife Danhee who’s spearheading efforts to open a school on the former college campus, something locals are watching closely.

Raj Bhakta, the founder of Shoreham-based WhistlePig Whiskey, bought Green Mountain College’s sprawling campus last week with little in the way of…

Why did the founder of WhistlePig buy Green Mountain College? Plus, Vermont State Colleges hope for funding, another Vt. inmate in Mississippi tests…

Dan Roberts was never a student at Green Mountain College, but the now-closed campus in Poultney still played a big part in his life. He grew up about 15…

No one has bought Green Mountain College yet — so to help pay for campus upkeep, some of the artwork, books and furniture the college collected over the…

The process of what comes next for three closed Vermont colleges has been a little different for each campus as they try to sell or reimagine how the…

This month three Vermont colleges held their final graduation ceremonies and now those schools are closed. While there are still 19 colleges in the state,…

There's still no decision on what will happen to the campus of Green Mountain College when it shuts down this summer. On Thursday, 300 people from in and…

Two small liberal arts colleges in Vermont will close in a few months, another will stop teaching students at the end of this semester, and one more is on…