This Week’s News
Honoree Fleming is more than her murder
Ms. Fleming was 77 when she was murdered, an ignoble ending to what had been a rather dignified life.
Names Lost in Vermont, Part 9: Fields, Fillioe, and Felion
What started out as an inquiry into solving one man’s changed surname unexpectedly linked three distantly related families, with variant spellings of their last name, to their common ancestral couple in Québec.
Pokémon, Magic, and Dragons draw kids to the Brandon Library
Eric Drzewianowski, a professional bookbinder, leather worker, and self-professed “nerd” who works part time at the library, has organized and led gaming clubs there that focus on Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Ask Joyce: Treats, not tricks for Halloween, please
I feel like I’m being cut out of something important to me, but my wife and her parents are acting like I’m being selfish for wanting to keep our daughter here. Am I being a jerk?
Green Mountain Power sees home batteries as the future
Green Mountain Power (GMP), Vermont’s main utility company, submitted a proposal to state regulators on Monday to buy large storage batteries, bury some power lines, and reinforce overhead cables.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Disc golf beats the winter blues at Brandon Town Hall
Imagine throwing a flying disc in the cavernous Brandon Town Hall. Now you can!
OV wrestling coach named Vermont Coach of the Year; team takes third at state championship
When the mats were rolled up on Saturday night in the Vergennes Union High School gym, wrestlers from Mount Abraham, Middlebury, Otter Valley and the host school had racked up three individual state titles and 20 top-six podium finishes at the Vermont championship tournament.
7th-grade OV girls’ hoop beats Rutland at home, 22-19
The Otter Valley 7th-grade girls’ basketball team had a terrific home game against Rutland on Friday, February 10.
OV wrestling takes third in state championship
Otter Valley wrestling added another notch to its belt this year with its third-place finish in the state dual-meet championship at Springfield High School on Saturday, February 11.
Special snow goose hunting opportunity
Vermont has a special spring snow goose hunting opportunity that will be held from March 11 through April 23.