Dick Kirby met German-American master rocketeer Wernher von Braun in Maryland in the 1950s while welding on a stainless-steel gas tank for the Redstone rocket.
Day: September 6, 2023
OV Principal Michael Ruppel begins his second year
Michael Ruppel had big shoes to fill coming to Otter Valley last year. Jim Avery had been Principal for so long that an entire generation had never known OV without him.
Back to school with RNESU Superintendent Kristin Hubert and OVUU School Board President Laurie Bertrand
Steven Jupiter sat with Hubert and Bertrand for a conversation about past experience and what they’re hoping for the coming year.
Names lost in Vermont, Part 7: Frank and Maggie White of Leicester
An obelisk with a broken cross at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Brandon attests to the fractured identities of the names inscribed on three of its faces.
After 16 years, Sam & Sharon Glaser close The Barn Antiques
If you ever needed an antique anvil, Sam Glaser was your man.
Plan for tree planting should help Brandon with climate change
Your trusty tree warden has submitted a draft Shade Tree Preservation Plan to the Town Manager and Selectboard for consideration.
Notes from the pulpit: Intention matters in ‘speaking your truth’
It seems that speaking one’s truth, regardless of what others think (or feel), has become for many people a virtue and a badge of freedom, a license to say whatever we want to say, however we want to say it, to whomever we want to say it.
‘The Local Talent’ rocks out in Red Clover’s beer garden
Summer arrived and with it a lovely opportunity to get out and enjoy music, friends, and beer.
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