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Twin Valley kicks off track season

ROCKINGHAM- Area high schools opened up the 2022 track and field season at Hadley Field on Wednesday, April 13, as Bellows Falls Union High School hosted the first meet of the season.
Local athletes competed and placed in a variety of events.
Twin Valley sent five athletes to the...

James Barnes

Barnes ordered to pay $35 per week

HARTFORD, CT- A Connecticut court has ordered former Hermitage Club owner James Barnes to pay $35 per week on a $1.3 million debt owed to Douglas Hollenbeck, one of the club’s founding members and investors.
The order follows a 2019 judgment in a Windham County, VT, court, as well as a...

Pandemic pauses court decision in Barnes case

HARTFORD, CT- The plaintiff in an uncontested case against James Barnes can’t get a judgment for damages, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hartford Superior Court Judge Mark H. Taylor has twice deferred a decision on a motion for judgment by Fidelity National Title Insurance Company in...

Patricia Reinhardt, G2 Capital Advisor's restructuring and financial turnaround specialist was the Hermitage's chief restructuring officer in 2017 and 2018.

Barnes to pay down G2 debt in 11,736 easy-to-make installments

HARTFORD, CT- A Connecticut judge has ordered former Hermitage owner James Barnes to make weekly payments to satisfy a judgment in favor of his former consultants. Hartford Superior Court Judge Mark Taylor issued the order Monday, requiring Barnes to pay $35 per week to G2 Capital Advisors. The...

Barnes, investor reach settlement, again

HARTFORD- A Connecticut Superior Court judge has approved a settlement agreement between Hermitage Club “100 Club” investor Mark Brett and former Hermitage owner James Barnes.
The stipulated agreement grants a judgment on one count of Brett’s March 2018 complaint in the amount of $388,872...

James Barnes during a presentation to the Wilmington Selectboard. File photo

Judge orders Barnes to be brought before court

HARTFORD, CT- A Connecticut Superior Court judge has issued an order to law enforcement to take James Barnes into custody and deliver him to the court for failure to appear at scheduled hearing.
The so-called “capias” order, a civil warrant similar to an arrest warrant, was issued by...

The Barnstormer Summit Lift

Court encumbers Barnes’ summit lift equity

HARTFORD, CT- A Connecticut judge has granted a motion by a former Hermitage employee to place a lien on Hermitage owner James Barnes interest in Barnstormer Summit Lift LLC.
Former Hermitage Chief Financial Officer Dan Solaz, who was also one of three creditors who initiated the Hermitage...

The Barnstormer lift under construction in 2015 at Haystack Mountain. The lift was financed by a group of Hermitage Club members, five of whome have since sued club owner Jim Barnes for lack of payment. The group has asked a Connecticut court to enforce a settlement. File photo

Group wants court to enforce settlement Barnes refuses to sign

HARTFORD, CT- Attorneys for a group of five investors in the Hermitage Club’s Barnstormer ski lift have filed a motion to asking the court to enforce a settlement agreement they say James Barnes agreed to, but refuses to sign.
The five members of Barnstormer Summit Lift LLC filed the...

Hermitage Lawsuits head south of the border, to Connecticut

By Mike Eldred
HARTFORD, CT- Three plaintiffs who were successful in their Vermont lawsuits against James Barnes and the Hermitage are seeking to domesticate their lawsuits in Barnes’ and Hermitage Inn Real Estate Holding Company’s home state.
This week a Connecticut judge granted...