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.
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OV Wrestling has terrific tourney at MUHS
A deep Otter Valley wrestling team walked away from last week’s 50th annual Hubie Wagner Invitational Tournament in Middlebury as the team champions.
‘Scrappy’ Otter girls’ basketball team down but not out
Early on the visiting Otter Valley girls’ basketball team on Friday looked determined to take it to Middlebury, using tough man-to-man defense to force a batch of turnovers and a balanced attack to bolt to a 11-4 lead after one period.
Local athletes named 2022 football all-stars
Several members of the Otter Valley Union High School Division III football team, as well as members of the Division I Middlebury and Division III Mount Abraham-Vergennes football teams, were named all-stars in voting by the leagues’ coaches.
Record Killington fans cheer FIS World Cup racers
Vermont’s Killington Resort, the largest ski and snowboard resort in Eastern North America hosted the women’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup for the sixth time over Thanksgiving Weekend.
FISU World Conference to address climate change and winter sports
“Winter sporting communities and athletes alike are seeing first-hand the impact of climate change on winter sport,” said Ashley Walden, Adirondack Sports Council executive director and a member of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games’ Organizing Committee.
