This Week’s News
At 100, Marion Wright reflects on her childhood in Pittsford
My Aunt Marion turned 100 years old on Christmas Day this year. She grew up on the same farm on Furnace Road in Pittsford that I did, only 30 years earlier.
‘Vermont Book of the Dead’ offers a fun, macabre tour of the state’s best graveyards
Just in time for Halloween month, author Roxie Zwicker has recently released the Vermont installment of her “Book of the Dead” series, which focuses on graveyards and their lore state by state through New England.
Chaffee Art Center’s 62nd annual Art in the Park in Rutland
Chaffee Art Center’s 62nd Annual Art in the Park Fall Foliage Festival will take place October 7 & 8 in Rutland’s Main Street Park at the Junction of Routes 4 & 7.
Obituary: Douglas Spencer Pond, 93, Pittsford
The graveside committal service and burial, with Military Honors, will take place on October 6, 2023, at 11:30 a.m., at the family lot in Evergreen Cemetery in Pittsford.
Hard Tellin’: Sunsetology
Of all the tall tales I have told my children, the one I feel least guilty about is my claim to have an intuitive expertise in sunsets.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Otter girls tennis looks to be competitive, says first year coach Hailey Watters
By RUSSELL JONES The Otter Valley girls tennis program will return all but one player from last year. The squad will be made up of four seniors and three sophomores. […]
Ov fields JV girls lacrosse team
By RUSSELL JONES Otter Valley will not field a varsity girls lacrosse team this season. However, they hope to have a varsity squad in the future, and this year’s junior […]
OV boys lacrosse looking strong; fields large team with four All-staters
By RUSSELL JONES Otter Valley boys’ lacrosse coach Jesse Milliman has a large squad of varsity lacrosse players to work with this season, in fact it’s his largest ever in […]
OV baseball looks to get another title
By RUSSELL JONES The Otter Valley baseball program fulfilled all of its goals in 2017, bringing home the state championship that season. Two years later, they still have nine players […]
Unified basketball team at OV puts all the emphasis on having a good time
The Otter Unified basketball team’s last home game of the season will take place this Friday, April 12, at 3:00 p.m. They will recognize the seniors during a short ceremony. […]

