Those picturesque Vermont winter mornings, when a fresh blanket of snow lays over the undisturbed ground and the green mountains are cloaked in a white canopy, seem fewer by the year.
Year: 2023
OVUU school board approves FY24 budget amid questions about tech ed
The Otter Valley Unified Union School Board approved its budget for fiscal year 2024 at its meeting on Wednesday, January 4.
Brandon selectboard: budget, trees & transformers
On Monday night, the Brandon selectboard approved the proposed FY24 budget that it will send to the voters in March.
Pittsford selectboard keeps its eyes on the road
The board voted to lower all speed limits within the village to 25 MPH, in an effort to increase the safety of residents.
St. Thomas hosts a belated Scandinavian holiday concert
On Thursday, January 5, Brandon’s St. Thomas & Grace Episcopal Church hosted Director Rustan Swenson’s Sancta Lucia Festival.
Guest editorial: 802 Opportunity Grant offers free tuition
We’ve long known that the most promising jobs in Vermont require education and training beyond high school. Yet too often, Vermonters seeking that education and workforce training cannot afford it.
Obituary: Eugene Paul Barrows, 82, of Brandon
While at Castleton, he was on the 1963 team that won the national soccer championship. He continued playing, coaching, and refereeing the sport well into his retirement.
Obituary: Phyllis May Bailey, 90, of Brandon
Phyllis was born in Sudbury on September 20, 1932, to Perley and Lula (Branch) Disorda, Sr.
Silver Lake hut gets the heave-ho
After a months-long deliberative process that included a dramatic public meeting in Brandon last summer, the proposed guest hut on the Silver Lake trail in the Moosalamoo National Recreation Area has been officially nixed.
The customer behind the sale: The afterlife of antiques
Recently we sold three sets of 1950s retro costume jewelry necklaces and clipback earrings to the Costume Design Department of a Los Angeles film studio.