This Week’s News
Adventures of Starship Bean #4: To infinity and beyond (or at least Florida)
We thought we took a wrong turn! On the map it looked like a housing development, however the roads were anything but developed!
‘Tragic irony’: Burlington shooting victims’ family members say of violence following their children
Family members of the Palestinian American college students who were shot and wounded Saturday night in Burlington faced TV cameras and a large crowd of local and national reporters on Monday afternoon.
Brandon Police Report: When life gives you an egged car, make eggnog
Here’s what kept the Brandon Police Department busy last week.
Definitely not ‘just a sponge’: OV Walking Stick aces Spongebob
SpongeBob SquarePants is a gloriously silly animated TV show that centers around a relentlessly optimistic, childlike sea sponge that lives in a pineapple in an undersea town—Bikini Bottom—that’s populated by a wacko cast of aquatic characters plus a Texan squirrel.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Cosmos, Otters embody sportsmanship
This past Saturday, the Otter Valley field hockey team met visiting Springfield in which both teams came out as winners by seeing close-up what good sportsmanship means.
OV wins State Championship!
The Otter Valley boys’ golf team dominated the field at the Manchester Country Club on Thursday, Oct. 10 to win the Division II championship by a 22-stroke margin.
Eagles pull away to topple OV in high scoring battle, 44-20
The Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative football team converted seven Otter Valley turnovers into 30 points on Saturday as the Division II Eagles won for the time this season, 44-20, at the visiting Otters’ expense.
OV field hockey starts fast, blanks host Tigers 5-0
When the Middlebury and Otter Valley union high school field hockey teams met in the 2020 Division II playoffs the Otters prevailed in double overtime.
Proctor and West Rutland fall sports start Aug. 19
West Rutland High School and Proctor High School are starting their fall sports on Aug. 19. These sports are varsity boys and girls soccer and a bass fishing team.

