New hotel cuts the ribbon

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015 11:04 am MANCHESTER VILLAGE >> Following a “soft opening” Dec. 3, the newly constructed Taconic Hotel — the first new hotel built from scratch in quite awhile in Manchester — officially opened its doors Sunday. The 58,000 square-foot, 87 room hotel, consisting of a horseshoe-shaped Main House and three separate cottages, occupies New hotel cuts the ribbon

Chef Adam Raftery Opens Copper Grouse in Manchester

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2015 COURTESY OF TACONIC, A KIMPTON HOTEL, Adam Raftery Northern Vermonters know Adam Raftery as the chef behind South Burlington’sWooden Spoon Bistro and Burlington’s St. Paul Street Gastrogrub. He still owns those restaurants with sister Liza O’Brien, as well as food cart the Front Yard.* But Raftery hasn’t cooked at his eateries since the summer; he’s busy preparing for Chef Adam Raftery Opens Copper Grouse in Manchester

A Tale of Three Towns

In the spring of each year, usually sometime after the May Pops concert, a tribe of nearly 300 migrating Vero Beachers, of which I am one, empties freezers, puts up hurricane shutters and packs up cars. A few ship their vehicles ahead via transports where Mercedes perch like acrobats. A few decide to save 800 miles and freight their cars in A Tale of Three Towns

Wedding-bell boom

Like every bride, Ashley Demko dreamed of a perfect wedding. For her that meant somewhere tropical, far from her home in Alexandria, Va. So she started surfing the Web. “I decided to research Florida and randomly stumbled across Vero Beach. When I saw the pictures of the Vero Beach Hotel & Spa, I fell in Wedding-bell boom

The Heaton Boys and their Toys

Around these parts, Heaton Companies is typically associated with the spectacular Vero Beach Hotel and Spa, or two of the development company’s luxury residential communities, Tarpon Flats and Old Oak Lane. But motorcycles? Yep, the Heaton’s have quite a love for bikes, which has become as much of a business interest as a personal passion The Heaton Boys and their Toys