This Week’s News
Brandon Budget Committee reviews Rec and Highway Depts
The purpose of the workshops is to help finetune the budget that the Selectboard will ultimately put before the citizens of Brandon at Town Meeting in March 2024 for Fiscal Year 2024-2025, which will begin on July 1, 2024 and end on June 30, 2025.
Names lost in Vermont, Part 12: Christmas and Landers
A monument with the name “Christmas” carved at its base in St. Alphonsus Cemetery in Pittsford commands attention. Who was this family?
New books and stories inspire Pittsford children with the Rural Libraries Grant
On November 17th, Pittsford children were treated to storytelling from Duncan McDougall and to brand-new books through a Children’s Literacy Foundation Rural Libraries grant awarded to Maclure Library.
Editorial: Lesson from the past: Words have always mattered
My father’s parents were born in a Polish town called Łuków (roughly “woo-cough”), some 75 miles southeast of Warsaw.
Guest editorial: Hold onto your sobriety during the holiday season
Thanksgiving Eve is also known as Blackout Wednesday, the first heavy drinking weekend of the holiday season.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Let the kids play?
Petition launched by Proctor parent and coach against delaying fall sports season By LEE J. KAHRS PROCTOR — A petition protesting the Vermont Principal’s Association’s (VPA) plan to postpone the […]
OV hires new field hockey girls soccer coaches
BRANDON — Otter Valley Union High School has hired new coaches to lead two varsity girls’ programs this fall, both with coaching experience at the school, according to Athletic Director Steven Keith
OV graduates 65 who look beyond the pandemic
Families attend drive-in style graduation following social distance protocols.
OV, other RNeSU schools, craft pandemic graduations
By LEE J. KAHRS BRANDON/ WEST RUTLAND/ PROCTOR — It will take longer, and there won’t be any hugging or handshaking as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but local high school […]
Proctor girls’ soccer win state title
Playing what teammates called “Phantom soccer,” the Proctor girls soccer team dominated their finals match against Rivendell from the start, winning Saturday’s Division IV state championship game, 6-0.
