Barnes

Hermitage Club owner pitches bankruptcy plan

Shares, debts could become public stock
WILMINGTON- Hermitage Club owner James Barnes has released a draft of a reorganization and financing plan he intends to file as part of his Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed last week in Hartford, CT.
Barnes met with The Deerfield...

Barnes seeks $1.7 million loan, plans for winter operations

HARTFORD, CT- Hermitage owner James Barnes is seeking permission from the Connecticut District Bankruptcy Court to borrow more than $1.7 million to fund Hermitage administration and operations during Chapter 11 proceedings. The motion was one of several documents posted Tuesday evening in the...

Hermitage Club, HIREHC, file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

HARTFORD, CT- The Hermitage Inn Real Estate Holding Company and Hermitage Club have both filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US Bankruptcy Court, District of Connecticut.
The two voluntary bankruptcy petitions, filed by James Barnes today, follow an involuntary Chapter 7...

This truck is one of the items Barnes wants to remove from the Hermitage Club. File photo

Hermitage receiver asks for court order prohibiting Barnes from removing items

NEWFANE- Hermitage receiver Alan Tantleff has filed a motion in Windham Superior Court asking a judge to bar James Barnes from removing personal property from Hermitage properties under receivership, and to recover items already removed.
The motion comes a week after Tantleff filed his...

Hermitage-related bankruptcy is filed

HARTFORD, CT- Donna Barnes, wife of Hermitage Club founder James Barnes, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Hartford District Court, apparently as a result of Hermitage-related debt.
Barnes initially filed a petition for bankruptcy on March 14. According to documents filed with the...

Judge to rule in favor of Hermitage investor

NEWFANE- Windham Superior Court Judge Robert Gerety has taken a motion for default judgment under advisement in a Hermitage investor’s lawsuit against James Barnes and Hermitage Inn Real Estate Holding Company.
Following a hearing on Monday, March 18, Gerety said Hermitage investor...

State wins default judgment motion for club’s unpaid sales taxes

NEWFANE- Windham Superior Court Judge Robert P. Gerety has granted a motion by the Vermont Department of Taxes for default judgment in their case against Hermitage owner James Barnes.
The judgment awards the Vermont Department of Taxes a total of $1,081,151.42 in unpaid meals, rooms,...

Bankruptcy imminent, according to plaintiff in Hermitage suit

NEWFANE- A Rhode Island man who is suing James Barnes and the Hermitage for $1.4 million didn’t get his day in court, after Barnes failed to show for a hearing on his own motion last week.
The hearing was scheduled on a motion submitted by Barnes asking the court to allow him to represent...

(Updated) Barnes seeks to lift order banning him from entering property, removing personal items

UPDATED: 2/28/19
WILMINGTON- The court-appointed Hermitage receiver has issued a notice against trespass barring Hermitage Club founder James Barnes from entering Hermitage properties in receivership.
According to the notice, signed by Alan Tantleff of FTI Consulting, Barnes is “not...

Stating the obvious: Receiver says club won’t open

WILMINGTON- A quarterly Hermitage receiver’s report filed this month calls the Hermitage Inn Real Estate Holding Company’s economic condition “stable,” but also notes that a plan to operate the ski area this season was inadequate.
In the report, receiver Alan Tantleff, of FTI Consulting,...