This Week’s News
Brandon Budget Committee & SB discuss Police Dept.
The Brandon Selectboard and the Budget Committee convened on Monday evening to discuss funding for the Brandon Police Department for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2025.
Ex-Brandon PD Chief Brickell to run VT Police Academy
Christopher Brickell’s career in Vermont law enforcement has taken him from Manchester to Brandon and now to Pittsford, where Governor Scott just appointed him Executive Director of the Vermont Criminal Justice Council, which oversees the Vermont Police Academy.
Names lost in Vermont, Part 37: Brooks and Disorda
Unfinished business from our last installment, Brooks had been included in the previous title along with Wideawake.
“Mean Girls” is coming to Otter Valley this weekend
Otter Valley’s Award-winning Walking Stick Theatre Company is presenting the Broadway Musical “Mean Girls” this weekend.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Proctor boys remain unbeaten, defeat MSJ 6-1
By RUSSELL JONES Saturday’s boys soccer matchup between Mount St. Joseph and Proctor was a tale of two programs having starkly different seasons. MSJ came into the match with a 0-8-1 record while Proctor brought a record of 8-0-1. The first win of the season for MSJ is still eluding them. Five times the Proctor […]
OV girls soccer comes close against Minutemen in double overtime
By RUSSELL JONES The Otter Valley girls soccer team came close to grabbing a win against Mill River on Friday, Oct. 4, but after two overtimes the Minutemen prevailed, 5-4. OV’s Ella Brytkowski scored two goals and Julia Eastman and Olivia White each scored a goal in the loss. White also had three assists. The […]
¡Muy Bueno!
Walking through the halls of Proctor Elementary School, Shondell Dahm is greeted with hive-fives and shouts of “Hola” or “Adios” from a travelling pack of six year olds. She greets them, returning the high-fives, and speaks to them about their day in Spanish with a big smile on her face.
OV field hockey shocks Woodstock in overtime
Otter Valley’s field hockey team has only dropped two games this year, one to Burr & Burton and one to Windsor, but they were pushed to the limit against Woodstock on Friday, Oct. 4, eking out a 4-3 overtime win.
Otter football holds on against MRU
NORTH CLARENDON — The Otter Valley Union High School football team edged host Mill River on Saturday, 36-35, in a Division III matchup when OV quarterback Alex Polli hit Brady Diaz with a two-point conversion pass with 1:23 left. The Otters then had to survive Mill River’s missed 19-yard field goal as time expired, an […]
