This Week’s News
Put a ring on it: The Rutland Regional Bridal Show comes to Brandon
For 22 years, Judy Risteff, who lives in Proctor, has been organizing wedding shows around Vermont to introduce the betrothed couples to vendors who can make their big days feel special and unique.
Letter to the editor: Support Brandon’s Police Dept. by saying no to EVs, yes to K-9 unit
Now is not the time or place to experiment with electric police vehicles.
Letter to the editor: Brandon should save its police dog and refuse EVs for Police Dept.
Selectboard member Tim Guiles said he did not want to pay an officer to feed a “dog.” I felt that was an insensitive statement and called him out.
Our Creative Kids: Sonora Gildrien
A painting by an Otter Valley 7th grader
Photos of the Week
Sports
Otter Valley wins on Senior Night
The Otter women welcomed the Wasps of Woodstock to Senior Night at the “House of Noise” on Friday, February 11 before a raucous crowd.
Otter Valley defeats Hartford, 36–34
The Otter Valley girls basketball team defeated the visiting Hartford Hurricanes, 36-34, on Friday, January 28 at the “House of Noise” in Brandon.
OV, Proctor, Westside winter sports teams kick-off the season
The COVD-shortened winter of the 2020-21 high school sports season is behind us, and the teams at Otter Valley are happy about that. The pandemic forced the school’s basketball programs, like those elsewhere, to play abbreviated seasons, and wrestling was sidelined for the entire season.
OV girl’s basketball drops opener
In a hard-fought season opening game in which the teams traded game-changing runs, the host Middlebury Union girls’ basketball team put together the decisive surge to outlast Otter Valley, 35-28.
Six Otters named to Second Team All-Stars
After a successful season this fall, 10 members of the Otter Valley football team received postseason recognition from the Division III coaches.

