The newspaper covers Killington and surrounding towns in Rutland and Windsor Counties.
[8] The sale of the paper in 2011 was delayed by significant flooding in Vermont from Tropical Storm Irene.
[9] The basement of the paper's printing office was damaged in the flood, but then-publisher Royal Barnard managed to publish an issue from his home that week.
[3] The Mountain Times was the first to report about a proposal for Killington to secede from Vermont and join New Hampshire in 2004.
[10] The New York Times did a story on Polly Lynn Mikula and her family Aug. 15, 2013, titled "Vermont Sisters With Roots in News Embrace Small-Town Papers" [11]