This Week’s News
Dunkin’ Donuts opens in Brandon
After years of anticipation, the Dunkin’ Donuts in downtown Brandon finally opened on Monday, September 18.
Mosquitos carrying West Nile Virus and EEE found in Vt.
Late summer is the peak time for these diseases, which can but rarely result in severe neurological symptoms and death.
Pianist and composer Alastair Stout performs at Pittsford Congregational Church’s hymn sing
Mr. Stout began the program with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Arioso, a slow, baroque virtuosic exercise.
Guest editorial: Breathing with the climate crisis, and the opportunity in it
My brother has always been a climate skeptic as far as human influence on the climate goes. However, it never stopped him from considering the opportunity that lives in assuming we do have a negative influence.
Point CounterPoint celebrates its 60th anniversary
The chamber music camp will host an Alumni Chamber Music Concert followed by a post-concert reception on Friday evening, September 29th, beginning at 7:30 p.m., at the Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple Street.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Mt. Abraham cruises past Otter boys in nail-biter, 57-42
The Mount Abraham boys basketball team took a trip down Route 7 for a clash with Otter Valley in a Saturday afternoon matinee at the “House of Noise” and used their size and speed to claim the win, 57-42.
Otter Valley wins on Senior Night
The Otter women welcomed the Wasps of Woodstock to Senior Night at the “House of Noise” on Friday, February 11 before a raucous crowd.
Otter Valley defeats Hartford, 36–34
The Otter Valley girls basketball team defeated the visiting Hartford Hurricanes, 36-34, on Friday, January 28 at the “House of Noise” in Brandon.
OV, Proctor, Westside winter sports teams kick-off the season
The COVD-shortened winter of the 2020-21 high school sports season is behind us, and the teams at Otter Valley are happy about that. The pandemic forced the school’s basketball programs, like those elsewhere, to play abbreviated seasons, and wrestling was sidelined for the entire season.
OV girl’s basketball drops opener
In a hard-fought season opening game in which the teams traded game-changing runs, the host Middlebury Union girls’ basketball team put together the decisive surge to outlast Otter Valley, 35-28.